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2013 archive

Back Alley Boys 0

It would appear that the Republican Party got its sex education the same way that I initially did–in whispered conversations with equally-ignorant peers in back alleys and locker rooms.

I, however, later decided to read up on the topic. So did Dick Polman.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Danae:  The Twitterverse is insatiable and must be fed or it will collapse. You know what that would lead to?  Pony:  Proper spelling, grammar, and complete sentences?  Danae:  YES!  Who's got time for that?!


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QOTD 0

Frances Burney:

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos Do the Downward Facing Dog 0

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Via AmericaBlog.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Display brotherly love, politely.

“Working jointly with Clayton County police, we have determined that the shooting actually occurred at the victim’s house inside Henry County,” Major Jason Bolton with Henry police said in an emailed statement. “It appears at this time that the victim was shot by her 18-year-old brother while he was playing with a gun.”

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Light Bloggery, Reprise 0

Out of town family is no longer in town.

Normal insanity will resume shortly.

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Susie Sampson Is Torn 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Walk the dog, politely.

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QOTD 0

Grace Slick:

Man is the only animal that knows he’s going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy.

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One Chip at a Time 3

Leonard Pitts, Jr.:

People think tyranny will be imposed at the point of a gun. Paranoids look up in search of black helicopters. Meanwhile, the architecture of totalitarianism is put into place all around them, surveillance apparatus so intrusive as to stagger the imagination of Orwell himself.

The point is not that one has nothing to hide. The point is that whatever you have is none of the government’s business absent probable cause and a warrant. The point is that one should never repose unfettered power with the state.

We should know this, yet we fall for the same seductive con every time: We are afraid, but the state says it can make us safe. And all it will take is the surrender of a few small freedoms.

Read the rest.

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Football uber Alles, Hacked Dept. 0

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Dulcet Tones 0

In which I surpass enlightenment.

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Sauce for the Goose 0

Field has a question:

It’s these hipsters, Libertarians, and white liberals getting into a hissy fit about their privacy rights because of the NSA snooping on their phone conversations and Internet searches. They are crying a river about the Constitutional protections that are being stripped away by “Big Brother”, the police state infringing into their personal lives, and they want answers from their government.

Fair enough. But where was the outrage when government decided that it was cool to “stop and frisk” young minority men in America’s largest city?

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QOTD 0

Frank Zappa:

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

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Playing Possum 2

It’s a wash.

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Shoot the Messenger 0

Cenk cannot restrain his sarcasm.

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Joe Being Joe 0

As an ex-Delawarean, I can attest that there’s a reason that Delaware loves Joe.

He’s Joe.

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It’s a Resort Town 0

We’re beachin’ it.

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Passages 0

The five stages of grief as regards surveillance, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Image:  My computer hard drive has crashed, and NSA won't send me their backup copy.

Via Balloon Juice.

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