March, 2013 archive
Lost in a Lost World 0
At the Guardian, Eric Risberg explores the world according to Fox and friends. A nugget:
(snip)
No wonder some GOP members cannot tell fact from fiction.
You can’t make this stuff up, but they can and do, and their acolytes believe it. For example.
Honest Books vs. Dishonest Books 0
Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog, where JMAshby points out:
As PR Campaigns Go . . . 0
. . . this one seems, thank heavens, to have failed.
But those campaigners are still in there pitching.
Don’t kid yourself that they are not still with us and still trying.
Observance 0
The Rude One commemorates the beginning of the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq with eight haikus.
Here’s one; click for the rest.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush,
Et al, got away with it.
We failed history.
Droning On, Metamorphosis Dept. 0
From “robotic death raining from the skies” to “instrument of foreign policy.”
The ground-control station for the remotely controlled aircraft will open Oct. 1 and be established by the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 111th Fighter Wing, the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs announced Monday. It is expected to create about 250 jobs, including 75 full-time positions.
Last time I checked, “foreign policy” did not blow stuff up.
War blew stuff up.
Never mind. Creates jobs for gamers.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
His devotees politely lay another sacrifice at the feet of the Great God Gat and pray that the pouring out of blood pleases the Deity.
True Colors 0
Motivated by the popularity of the History Channel’s current biblical potboiler*, Chauncey Devega wades into the confluence of history, belief, and culture to wonder why, in the popular American imagination, Jesus is always imagined as white like me.
This Jesus would be hounded and harassed by the TSA, looked at as a de facto “suspicious” person in post 9/11 America, and be racially profiled by the national security state. The historical Jesus would likely be subject to stop and frisk policies by the New York police and others. If it were too late at night, and the historical Jesus was trying to get a cab–especially if he were not attired “professionally”–he would be left standing curbside because brown folks in their twenties and thirties who look like him are presumed to be criminals.
Read it.
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*Which I am industriously ignoring.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Treat your dorm-mates politely.
Campus police said Monday that 30-year-old James Oliver Seevakumaran – who shot himself in the head as officers arrived, before any other students were hurt – was armed with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a backpack filled with explosives and a plan to attack other students as they fled the seven-story dorm where he lived.
The Dialectic 0
PoliticalProf has a theory.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once everyone is packing heat, there is no chance that something like this can happen.
None. Zilch. Nada.
Real Sports 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Laurie Essig cuts through the crap about the Steubenville rapists.
But the real story shouldn’t be about the mainstream media behaving badly or even the mock media’s hoisting them on their sports-obsessed petard. The real story isn’t even that a young woman was violently raped and then violated over and over again by the people in her community and then again by the media. The real story is that there is something seriously wrong with a culture so twisted that it values male athletes so much that it refuses to hold them accountable for anything but winning.Read the rest.
Twits on Twitter 0
I didn’t know that convicted rapists had groupies.
Cast Irony 0
(Link fixed) Daniel Ruth on CPAC: “Get your programs here! You can’t tell the players without a program!”
And there was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who wowed the crowd by simply finding his way to Maryland.
Also there was Sen. Marco Rubio, who has been running for the presidency since he got former Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd his first cup of coffee. Rubio extolled the virtues of individual liberty. Who better to make that tea party argument than a guy who has been collecting a government paycheck for virtually his entire adult life?
More delightfulness at the link.
Eagle 0
Taken by my brother under low light conditions, but it’s such a great action shot I decided it warranted posting.
It looks like the fishing expedition was successful.
The Old College Try 0
Bill Maxwell is not impressed with colleges’ moving to the on-line model:
“Much more importantly, a string of courses — online or not — does not add up to a real college experience, even if these courses do add up, at some places, to a degree,” he said. “As the Wizard of Oz says to the scarecrow, ‘I cannot give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.’ “
Stray Thought 0
Nothing shakes my faith more than the antics of those who loudly anoint themselves the “faithful.”
