2013 archive
How To Get Rich Quick, Reprise 0
Find the appropriate marks target audience.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to the children.
A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition and a 5-year-old girl in critical-stable condition after the shooting Saturday afternoon in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said.
I trust that the NRA finds the epidemic of politeness gratifying.
Impeachable Offenses 0
PoliticalProf explains:
President Obama’s offense is that he is not supporting the tea party’s political views.
That will simplify the issue for you immensely.
To Java or Not To Java 0
Jamesetta Walker issues a wake up call.
Then again, my liver’s health might actually improve if I drink four cups of coffee a day, according to a Duke University School of Medicine study that percolated simultaneously last week with the South Carolina findings.
More eye-openers at the link.
Intermission: A Moment of Linux Goodness 0
E17 on Slackware –Current with real time Conky status and weather updates and Konsole open to the Conky weather script. Weather script courtesy of Raging Penguin.
The Republican War on Science 0
James Perry wants to know (emphasis added):
Are Americans dumber than they used to be?
The question might better be, Are Republicans dumber than they used to be?
And the answer seems to be — the envelope, please — yes. Yes, they are.
That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of dumb Democrats. Of course there are, but it’s members of the Grand Old Party these days who are regressing by refusing to accept scientific fact.
(snip)
“It is politically effective, and socially acceptable, to deny scientific fact” today, the professor (Adam Frank, U. Rochester–ed.) says.
When a party embraces promoting dumb as a tactic, what does that say about its goals?
(Don’t answer that. You likely don’t want to know.)
Cooch and the Cuckoos and the Cloaking Device 0
The message clearly stung.
“Some people will do anything for 30 pieces of silver,” Chris LaCivita, a strategist for Cuccinelli, tweeted.
That bid to undermine Marcus’ credibility, the continual smearing of anyone who dares to disagree, is indicative of the general approach taken by Cuccinelli’s primary and general-election campaigns. And it’s counterproductive.
Virginia values an appearance of gentility, even amongst the most decidedly un-genteel.
What distinguised The Regent* from many of his like-minded politicos is that he knew how to behave in public, to create an appearance of reasonableness even as he promoted the unreasonable.
Cooch and the Cuckoos lack the Regent’s cloaking device.
With them, the crazy is always out front.
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*Proponent of state-mandated penetration of women with devices, something not quite genteel.
Turnabout 0
At SeattlePI, Joel Connelly goes bird-watching and espies Jim Crow’s current aerie.
They can, however, restrict early, and particularly Sunday, voting. They can require government ID and then make it difficult — particularly for elderly non-drivers — to get. They can make minority voters spend hours waiting at understaffed polling places.
They can discourage college students by not accepting college-issued photo ID. They can gerrymander legislative and U.S. House districts to such ends as minimizing Hispanics in Texas’ congressional delegation.
From the party of Lincoln to the party of stiffing Lincoln.
Nixon’s Republican Party tried to harness hate with the odious Southern Strategy. Come 45 years and the hate has harnessed them.
Do read the rest.
How To Get Rich Quick 0
Football at Bernie’s (Updated) 0
Bob Molinaro, in my local rag:
Do read the rest.
Oh! and speaking of the Entirely Sports Programming Network . . . .
Afterthought:
Big-time football is starting to make boxing look clean.
Addendum, on Posting Day:
Bob Molinaro follows up in today’s local rag:
The NFL and ESPN are, first and foremost, corporate partners.
Read it.
Groundhog Day in Carnaby Street Style 0
I can’t say I’m fond of what passes for high school kids’ fashion (or lack thereof) these days, or of the commercials in which retailers try to turn the first day of school into America’s Next Top Model, but, really, now.
So they still get to ogle the cheerleaders in their mini skirts.
Next, they’ll outlaw Beatles haircuts.
Oh, wait.
For you whippersnappers, here’s a link about Carnaby Street. It was a Quant place.
The ability of Americans to get upset over stupid stuff is infinite.