2013 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Teach the children:
In other news of gun nut viagra:
It was the second time this week that guns wreaked tragedy in the hands of minors in Central Florida.
On Wednesday, a 4-year-old Pine Hills boy suffered a gunshot wound to his face in an apparent accidental shooting inside the condominium he shared with family members, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
Flooding the country with firearms will certainly ensure that these do not recur.
Observance, Continued 0
Doghouse Riley takes time out for a Noonan.
A Peggy Noonan, that is.
A nugget therefrom:
A thing is not true just because you are, or pretend to be, serious about it. Especially you.
Boundaries 0
Theatre of the Absurdity 0
With acerbic commentary by Julianna Forlano.
Twits on Twitter 0
Sexist geek twits.
But the backlash against Adria Richards has been brutal and swift. Richards, who is based in San Francisco, has been fired from her job as a “developer evangelist” at SendGrid, a Colorado-based email delivery company, according to tech blog VentureBeat. And she has received disturbing comments on her Twitter feed and violent images referencing rape and murder.
There seems to be a certain coterie in geekdom who think that sitting at a console typing code into a text editor is somehow reserved for macho, macho men.
Republican “Minority Outreach” 0
An oxymoron, now! with extra, added morons!
Tony Norman struggles to wrap his mind around the concept of “Frederick Douglass Republicans.”
I can’t summarize or excerpt the piece and do it justice. Just go there.
Return of Beyond the Palin, the Reality TV Years 0
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Via the The Daily Banter.
Facebook Frolics, No There There Dept. 0
The guy is so stalwart a Republican with so exemplary a record of Republican economic practices (follow the link) that John McMaverick McCain refused his donations.
Observance, Reprise 4
Der Spiegel looks back at the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq and attempts to learn something from it. Here are two of their conclusions:
6. It was the war of the neocons
(snip)
7. The neocons learned little from the war
Follow the link for the rest, including their reasoning.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Not too bad, but sequestration . . . .
(snip)
The four-week moving average of claims, a less-volatile measure, dropped to a five-year low of 339,750 from 347,250.
Both Sides Not 0
Lee Jussim:
So who engages in more science-denial — liberals or conservatives?
Read the rest.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
“Biostitutes.” Heh.