2013 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Fun and games in Virginia’s 85th House of Delegates district.
At this point, there seems to be little to the charges that can’t be explained by Photoshop, but lies speed around the world etc.:
The sordid affair, and the resulting digital whodunit over the veracity of Facebook messages, leave voters with plenty to ponder ahead of the June 11 GOP primary to nominate a candidate for an office that pays $17,640 annually.
While much of this story remains murky, at its core, it’s an example of what political combatants are willing to do to potentially harm to a foe.
At issue are screen shots of alleged 2012 Facebook exchanges between Taylor and a 21-year-old Newport News woman in which an intimate rendezvous and marijuana use are discussed.
Me, I wouldn’t vote for either of them anyway, so I can sit back and enjoy the show.
Sequestrian Dressage, Point-a-Finger-Four-Fingers-Point-Back-at-You Dept. 0
The editorial board of the Roanoke Times gets it.
A snippet:
Tribal Warfare 0
Eric Garland muses on what would the news look like if U. S. media covered domestic news the way they cover foreign news.
A snippet:
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Montgomery, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult.
Please, oh please, do read the rest.
Via TWIB.
Classification 0
The Booman offers a taxonomy of the crazy.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
More Three-Card Monte 0
Thom explains “negative externalities.”
The Republican War on Science 0
Dick Destiny wrote this so I don’t have to.
Plus ca Change 0
How many persons know that the movie, Animal House, was based on Dartmouth College, an institution laden with tradition?
The twits on twitter celebrate the tradition.
Legacy, Bushie Style 0
The Booman reminds us that the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq rages on; follow the link:
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better, but still in the same ballpark:
(snip)
The four-week moving average of claims, a less-volatile measure, fell to 357,500 from 362,000.
The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits fell by 93,000 to 3 million in the week ended April 13, the lowest since May 2008. The continuing claims figure does not include the number of workers receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
“You Have the Right to Remain Silent” 0
Much absolutely hysterically wrong wrongness about Miranda warnings has filled the news and the blogosphere since the suspect in the Boston bombings was apprehended.
David Harris, University of Pittsburgh law professor, cuts through the crap on Miranda warnings.
The Supreme Court ruling in the Miranda case is actually quite specific: Warnings are required only if the police question a suspect while he is in custody and the district attorney wants to use the answers to prove guilt. That’s all.
If you have been caught up in the miasma of Miranda meanderings, you really need to read the whole thing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite on the way to the practice range.
Afterthought:
Honest to Pete, back when I took an NRA gun safety class in high school, in the olden days when the NRA was a hunter’s organization, before it became a lobbying group, lesson one was never transport a loaded gun.
Lesson two was unload guns before transporting them.
These people are nuts.
For all their worship of their rifled idols, they persist in treating them as toys, playing with them as if they were Barbie dolls of blued steel.
True Colors 0
The latest line, peddled on a conservative radio talk show: Democrats’ purpose in sponsoring the legislation — aimed at making undocumented college students eligible for state financial aid — was to make Republicans look racist.
Indeed.
Coals. Newcastle.
Vituperation Void 2
At SFGate, Mark Worfords wonders just whom we’re supposed to hate this week.