2012 archive
Naval Gazing 0
Jay Bookman wonders why Mitt the Flip has suddenly decided to trumpet the navy and reaches a conclusion:
. . . Why is Romney stressing naval expansion in his campaign remarks? Take a look at the map of swing states. Virginia is critical to his election hopes. Virginia is also home to Newport News Shipbuilding, which with 21,000 employees is a major contractor with the U.S. Navy.
Binded by the Right 3
Leonard J. Pitts, Jr., considers the undercurrents of Mitt the Flip’s binders full of women and finds himself transported back in time:
When’s the last time any of these boys had a date?
In the world outside their time bubble, women run states and nations, fight fires and litigate cases, perform surgeries and grab rebounds. And yes, they still tend boo-boos and fix meals, too.
Back in time is, natch, where these folks want to be, back in the Never Never Land that never existed of Leave It to Beaver* (never mind that Barbara Billingsley was a working mother).
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*I couldn’t stand that show, probably because my brother liked it.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and talk about anything in a relaxed atmosphere.
When: Thursday, October 25th, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
There and Back Again 0
Maybe they should have swiped a GPS while they were at it.
An Accounting 0
Helen Philpot quantifies Mitt’s lies, then concludes
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If You Haven’t Visited the Grand Canyon, Now Is the Time 1
Some Arizonans are determined to despoil it. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
I’ve been there twice, once to the South Rim and once to the much-less-visited North Rim.
I find this effort appalling and barbarous.
Republicans: Sperm uber Alles 0
According to Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, rape is God’s work.
I realized during the night that “Pro-Life” is not about “Life.”
It’s about sperm.
It’s about conquest.
It’s about the belief that, if a man plants a successful little swimmer, it must be preserved and revered above all else, because, by God, it’s a man’s.
All the rest is poppycock.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
More evidence that Republican fears of voter fraud is a case of psychological projection:
Football Got My Goat a Long Time Ago 1
Now the goats are fighting back.
Burns High School, in the northern Cleveland County town of Lawndale, is playing football games and soccer matches at other teams’ fields, after someone turned several goats loose inside Ron Greene Stadium behind the school last Thursday night.
(The local health department has been trying to track down an E. Coli outbreak, hence closing the field.)
Republican Family Values 0
Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
Trek 0
I used my bicycle for actual transportation today.
Usually I just ride around in circles.
Today, though, I dropped off the truck at Bucky’s because of a coolant leak (new radiator, 300 bucks). There’s a nice quiet residential neighborhood between there and here, so I bicycled back, admiring the houses outfitted in celebration of All Hallows Eve.
“Baracktose Intolerance” 0
Jon Stewart asks the question:
. . . setting aside that the President didn’t actually do any of these things, why did the President do these things?
Via TPM.
The Entitlement Society 4
At Philly dot com, Ronnie Polaneczky explains why she was unable to write a cutesy-poo column about the debates and women in binders:
He and his ilk will never lose sleep at night worrying how to pay the heating bill.
(snip)
Romney and his campmates believe that this brand of well-being is attainable for anyone who will just work hard enough for it.
Except then there would be no schoolteachers, who work hard – but at middling wages. Ditto for cops, and soldiers, and firefighters, and medics, and office workers, and cashiers, and waiters, and social workers, and bus drivers, and lab techs, and just about every kind of worker whose sweat contributes to and supports a greater whole called America.
We can’t all run Bain Capital. If we did, who would tend to Romney’s houses? Bus the tables at his fundraisers? Clean out the stalls where his wife keeps her horses? Or fix the tires on her Cadillacs when they go flat?
What Romney has done, by dishonoring the 47 percent – and forgetting the 99 percent – is dishonor work that he himself would never do. And in doing so, he dishonors those who do it.
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