2013 archive
Mooned 0
I was planning to take out my tripod and try my (relatively) new camera with oodles of megapixels and a long lens at some moonshots tonight.
I find myself downcast at the overcast.
Offside-Eye 0
Maddy Blythe had at least four sacks playing for Strong Rock Christian School’s team last year, but just this week, the school’s CEO told her that she would no longer be able to play.
I suspect that the boys are going to have all the impure thoughts they want, whether or not this little girl is playing football with them.
But, frankly, the more I see, the more I am convinced that the persons with the mostest impurest thoughts of all are those persons who loudly proclaim how Christian they are.
Plus Ca Change 0
What was old is new again.
Connie Schultz remembers:
I responded by sharing a story from 1979, when I was editor of my college newspaper, the Daily Kent Stater. Shortly before the fall semester began, we found out that an administrator had derailed plans to distribute a brochure about birth control methods during freshman orientation.
We decided on several front pages to the topic. . . .
Thirty-four years later, I still recall one particular father’s call. “You listen here, young lady,” he shouted into the phone. “I will never let my daughter stick an IUD up her rectum.”
“Good for you,” I said, “’cause that’s not where it goes.”
In 1979, that father sounded like an uninformed loon.
Today, he could be a Republican member of Congress.
A Picture Is Worth 0
Elsewhere, Chauncey Devega rominates on the topic. Follow the link to read the rest; you’ll be glad you did:
Birtherism, and Republican Joe Wilson’s unprecedented heckling of President Barack Obama during his State of the Union Address in 2009 is a parallel to Paula Deen’s fantasy.
Conspiranoid fantasies of Secession and a second Civil War are also part of this national derangement on the part of the White Right and Tea Party GOP. The murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, and how Republicans have rallied to Zimmerman’s defense, is a reflection of a foundational assumption that black people must always be subservient, and surrender to White authority–as well as those overly identified and enamored with it–in any circumstance.
Projecting forward, at the end of her saga Paula Deen will be forced to publicly apologize for her racism. In that moment, and keeping with script, she will also channel some tears in order to get back into the good graces of her fans.
Image via Contradict Me.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness, life in the streets.
If the other folks had had shotguns, no doubt no one would have been hurt.
C*O*P*S 0
Your tax dollars on patrol in Lakeland, Florida, as the police diligently search for contraband (video below the fold because it autoplays).
“A Nation of Immigrants” 0
Not if the Republican Party can help it!
Innermost Thoughts 0
Sometimes, it is best to keep them “innermost,” especially if you are a not nice person.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Resolve family disputes, politely.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebooking the foreclosure-based economy.
Keeping a High Profiling 0
Courtland Milloy, long-time reporter and columnist for the Washington Post, tells what it is like to “look fishy” to someone somewhere.
Later I learned that the tourist also thought I looked a lot like Saddam Hussein.
And that’s all it took. Say goodbye to Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
Words Fail Me 0
Bringing new meaning to “sesame seed buns.”
I miss Philly.
Compared to Philly, Virgina Beach is pretty damned dull.
No There, There 0
Ezra Klein looks at Bobby Jindal and sees an example of the political (in the sense of “polity,” not in the sense of “horserace”) bankruptcy of Republicanism. A nugget:
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The upside of this theory is that it frees Jindal and the rest of the Republican Party from having to do the hard work of rethinking and renewing its own governing agenda. The downside of this theory is that it’s utter nonsense. And the most damaging part of this theory is that it’s utter nonsense aimed at Jindal’s own base.