2009 archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The Booman on the wingnut campaign against ACORN. ACORN has been excoriated for hiring convicted criminals and for submitting incorrect or duplicate voter registration cards.
What the wingnuts always leave out is that ACORN, as a community service organization, is, as part of its mission, giving released convicts a second chance and trying its best to identify improperly completed voter registration cards and flag them for review and exclusion:
Fundamental to the campaign against ACORN and similar groups is the Republican Party’s conviction that, the more they can keep persons from the polls, the better their chances.
But They Stole It Fair and Square! 0
Robert Reich:
Later on in the post, he offers theories on why Mr. Obama is picking this fight. They boil down to health care.
Branding 0
So, they filled up at an Exxon.
The gas came from Valero’s refinery.
And you thought that brands meant something.
Greater Wingnuttery XX 0
Joe the (not a) Plumber.
Honestly, the glorification of complete, total, willful ignorance–ignorance of history, ignorance of religion, ignorance of current events–is truly rather astounding.
When Is Success Not Success? 0
When it’s not good enough for Wall Street “analysts,” the unsung and often nameless arbiters of everything. Demand for India’s Nano automobile is double supply, but, nevertheless, it’s not good enough.
But this was not enough in the eyes of the market.
“Poor response to Nano is a sentiment dampener for the stock,” said analysts at Batlivala & Karani, which has an underperformer rating on the company.
This whole pathology of judging companies based on (someone’s? whose?) expectations, rather than on performance, stinks like limburger cheese.
But Wouldn’t They Start To Turn under the Hot Lights? (Updated) 1
Chicken cutlets. Oh, my.
Addendum:
Apparently, I am informed that chicken cutlets is slang for silicone inserts.
My comment stands. AFAIC, this is an area where there is really no way to improve on what God has provided.
Twits on Twitter 0
The Mudflats elucidates.
Core Beliefs 0
Dick Polman parses the fundamentals of Republicanism. Detailed analysis at the link:
The party right now has no coherent message, aside from “Do Not Offend Rush Limbaugh.”
Contemporary Republican Political Tactics in a Nutshell 0
Giving into an overwhelming compulsion to keep running into a brick wall.
Geneva Conventions 0
The Booman uncovers a little history.
In Memoriam: Kent State 0
I remember how I learned the news.
I was sitting in the Campus Center at my school playing bridge.
Someone I knew came in and said, “They’re killing us now.”
Bushonomics: The Hangover 0
Pennsylvania has run out of unemployment compensation money, because so many persons have been supply-sidelined.
It’s now borrowing money to pay unemployment benefits.
Okay, So I Like Silly 1
But for once I think the local paper came up with a cute headline:
So you don’t have to follow the link: The story is a puff piece about how, since Joe Biden became vice-president, the response to “I’m from Delaware” is no longer,
“Oh, what state’s that in?”
(Yes, that’s one I got first-hand.)
Drink Liberally 0
Live charitably.
Drinking Liberally, Triumph Brewing Company, Chestnut between Letitia and Second (wonder if that’s the same Letitia I went to school with?), Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday, 6 p.
I’ll be there to pick up my brownberry which I fell out of my coat four weeks ago and which they found on Thursday. (Hmmmm, wonder how often they sweep–never mind.)
Text Education (Updated) 0
Outfits offering information about sex via text messages are proliferating:
Sex education in the classroom, say many epidemiologists and public health experts, is often ineffective or just insufficient. In many areas of the country, rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases remain constant or are even rising. North Carolina — where schools must teach an abstinence-only curriculum — has the country’s ninth-highest teenage pregnancy rate. Since 2003, when the state’s pregnancy rate declined to a low of 61 per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19, the rates have slowly been climbing. In 2007, that rate rose to 63 per 1,000 girls — 19,615 pregnancies.
The article goes on to point out that those who advocate ignorance abstinence-only sex education are bent out of shape because their little darlings might actually learn something.
They persist in denying that hormones, not knowledge, causes kids to explore sex.
Addendum, the Next Day:
The Guardian has more.
