February, 2014 archive
Downfield Coverage 0
The always excellent Bob Molinaro notes that the fuss itself is part of the fuss:
Chris-Crossed 0
Joan Walsh struggles to understand where Chris Christie got a reputation as a “moderate.” A nugget:
I think something baser is at work.
The media, particularly the Washington media, loves the horse race; they don’t care about the outcome. IF they report the truth–that the Republican Party has devolved into a coalition of the New Secesh and the American Taliban funded by robber barons–the spectators might leave the stands.
Like old-style horse-fixers, they disguise one of the horses so they can jack up the betting and have their photo finish.
The Write Stuff 0
Betsy Biesenbach does not regret the disappearance of “cursive.” A nugget:
Unfortunately, neither can I.
Afterthought:
When I was in first and second grades, printing was called “printing” and what today is called “cursive” was called simply “writing” and was just what literate persons did.* I wonder what effect giving “writing” a special fancy-sounding name has had in turning it into something mysterious and foreign.
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*The capital “D” gave me a fit for two years.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle arguments politely in the halls of the moneychangers.
Military Circle Mall is down the road a piece and to the right, across from JANAF and about two miles from Military Circle, which used to be an actual traffic circle. JANAF (which stands for Joint Army Navy and Air Force) was the first major shopping center in the area (JANAF fell on hard times, then successfully resurrected itself). I drive by there several times a week. It’s a fairly typical temple of the worship of acquisitiveness–hardly decrepit, but out of style.
The Penney’s is closing for its own reasons–Penney’s never matured past the 70s, but they still carry great Oxford-cloth shirts, which, I understand, are not favored by the polite.
It’s Comcastic! 0
Sign the petition.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
Later, Steele picked up the gun and pointed it at Holt, her boyfriend, and pulled the trigger. Holt was shot in the chest. He was taken to Delray Medical Center where he later died.
And in more news of the polite. . . .
Aside:
This is what NRA Paradise looks like, folks.
“Hut One, Hut Two, Miranda!” 0
Daniel Ruth takes on the hate-full reactions of some in the NFL to Michael Sam’s announcement that he is gay. A nugget:
And the NFL is worried that a football player in the next locker who might have a boyfriend rises to a distraction? Peyton Manning doesn’t need to be shouting “Omaha! Omaha!” at the line of scrimmage. It should be “Miranda! Miranda!”
Also, the normally tepid and conventional Frank Bruni weighs in.
Susie Sampson’s Sister Samples Sentiment 0
In other news, Time Magazine demonstrates how it went from Henry Luce to Henry Loser in one generation.
Virginia’s Repugnant Marriage Constitutional Amendment Overturned 0
This is good news.
Persons should not be punished for being.
A spokesman for Herring, a Democrat, in an e-mail Thursday night said Norfolk-based U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen issued that ruling.
In her decision, Wright concluded that “Virginia’s Marriage Laws unconstitutionally deny Virginia’s gay and lesbian citizens the fundamental freedom to choose to marry.”
More at the link.
It amuses me that proponents of these laws claim they are defending marriage.
Nothing that has ever happened in a same-sex bedroom has ever affected a marriage of mine.
I cannot say the same for–oh, never mind.