January, 2014 archive
“Beggar Thy Neighbor” 2
Dan Simpson thinks that the “American Dream” is in danger of being sacrificed on the altar of Mammon. A nugget, which does not do justice to the whole:
The untenable-anyway argument that America’s poor are poor because they don’t want to work, preferring to live on unemployment benefits and food stamps, leaves out the children. Can anyone with a heart and in his right mind argue that more than 9 million of America’s children “deserve” to go to bed or school hungry, or be homeless with no fit place to do their homework?
The One Per Cent constructs fanciful Galtian theories (yclept “Libertarianism” and the “Laffable Curve“) and paranoid terrors to justify greed and cold-heartedness, but those who look beyond, who pay attention to what the One Per Cent and their sycophants do, rather than to what they say, recognize those as smokescreens to obfuscate thievery.
If I believed that “fair use” meant I could quote the entire column, I would do so, but it doesn’t and I will not. I have pondered for over a day now what bit to excerpt here. Whatever I excerpted, it would not have been enough.
Just read the rest.
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Chris-Crossed 0
Warning: More bad taste than usual.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another clean-living polite parent:
According to the story, “the gun somehow went off,” apparently of its own accord.
Wars and Mongers of War 0
Jon Stewart marvels at those who would snatch war from the jaws of peace.
The Daily Show
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Meanwhile, Chauncey Devega dissects the compulsion of old men to send young men and women to their deaths, using Bill Kristol, leading drum-beater for the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq, as an example. A nugget (do read the rest):
Jon Stewart via AMERICAblog.
Football’s Immaculate Deception 0
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He’s Looking at Doing Hard Cheese 0
Cop it, the cheese!
“indecent acts with dairy products.” The copy editor had fun krafting this one.
It’s a slice of reality.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Treat your friends politely.
“The intent was not homicide. We believe it was a reckless act,” police Chief John Otto told Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE.
More guns would, no doubt, have kept this from happening.
School for Scamdal 0
The three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Republican talking points.
