February, 2013 archive
Cardinal Sins 0
Let no sin go unrewarded.
Archbishop Jose Gomez, who did the stripping, nonetheless is asking the faithful to pray for Cardinal Mahoney. Gomez is confident that his predecessor’s experience will serve “well” as cardinals work “to discern the will of the Holy Spirit” and elect a new pope.
Ireland’s Cardinal Sean Brady will be joining Mahoney in Rome. Two years ago, it was revealed that Brady swore to secrecy in 1975 two boys who were repeatedly abused by a monk and serial pedophile.
More at the link.
Kicking and Screaming into the 1960s 0
Additional comment superfluous.
The House Courts of Justice Committee on Friday unanimously approved Sen. Adam Ebbin’s bill repealing Virginia’s 136-year-old law against what the state calls “lewd and lascivious cohabitation.”
Twits on Twitter in Perpetuity 0
I would hate to have to index the blither.
Too Big To Trial 0
Senator Warren wants to know why the regulators haven’t thrown the book at the folks who cook the books. Watch the witnesses dodge the question.
Via New York Magazine’s Kevin Roose, who has commentary.
Meta: Comment Spam 0
Something’s going on out on the innerwebs.
Akismet has caught over 500 spam comments to this blog in the past 48 hours. That’s about 450 more than the normal crop for two days.
The Godfather 0
Some of the language is a little strong.
Impolitic. Off-putting. Invective-like.
But not necessarily inaccurate.
Droning On 0
Oh, so now it’s a “booming industry.”
“This research will give us valuable information about how best to ensure the safe introduction of this advanced technology into our nation’s skies,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a statement.
Although no money is attached, officials in Florida and elsewhere see the competition as an opportunity to get a jump on the booming drone industry, which is expected to almost double in size from $6.6 billion in global spending now to $11.4 billion in 10 years.
Follow the money and watch fat cats feast on our private lives.
Nip and Duct 0
On Wednesday, the (North Carolina–ed.) state House Judiciary Committee C approved House Bill 34, which makes it a Class H felony to purposefully expose “private parts” for the “purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.”
The bill expands the state’s definition of “private parts” to include a woman’s “nipple, or any portion of the areola.”
Republican state Rep. Rayne Brown told lawmakers that she was co-sponsoring the bill because activists had held a topless women’s rights rally in Asheville last summer, where as many as a dozen women bared their breasts.
It would be a Republican.
They are notoriously afeared of lady parts.
I rather doubt that women at a women’s rights rally are particularly interested in “arousing or gratifiying sexual desire,” but the skeevy Republican preoccupation with sex–oh, never mind, it’s just skeevy.
Stray Question 0
Is Lady Gaga the P. T. Barnum of our time?
An Idiot with a Computer Is Still an Idiot 2
Having been a boater, I am failed by words at this.
(snip)
Dube said alcohol is not suspected as a factor in the crash. Rather, McBride had his GPS setting too wide for the area and had the incorrect background lighting selected.
Picture of boat in the trees at the link.
Afterthought:
He. Missed. The. Creek.
Really.
Twits on Twitter 1
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Republican Party has become a vile and disgusting thing which pleasures itself at the expense of the nation.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
