March, 2014 archive
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“I’m Not a Racist But” Means “I’m a Racist” 0
Catch up with the latest in “I’m-not-a-racist-but.”
I’m a Southern Boy. I know a bigot when I see one.
Light Bloggery 0
Family weekend.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite on spring break.
When the bag hit the ground, the gun went off and Moore was shot in the left calf.
The fiance (this marriage should turn out well)–another person too stupid to be allowed to play with real guns.
Profits of Doom 0
Dan Simpson thinks it’s simple.
(snip)
The Pentagon budget just happens to be on the table at the moment in Washington.
Read the rest.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better.
Jobless claims dropped by 9,000 to 315,000 in the week ended March 8, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington.
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The jobless claims report showed the four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, fell to 330,500 last week from 336,750.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits decreased by 48,000 to 2.86 million in the week ended March 1, the lowest level since December.
Girl Scout Sell Out 0
The Girl Scouts of America have “partnered” with Mattel to create “Barbie” patch.
A payment from Mattel is involved.
High Crimeas and Misdeamenors 0
In Japan Times, Ramesh Thakur pours the cold water of reality, the kind abhorrent to Wingnut warmongers because it contains truth. A nugget:
Nyet, nada, not a chance. NATO was equally impotent in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956/68. As Mahatma Gandhi warned, an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. Whatever happens, this is not the West’s fight to lose. . . .
Wars and Mongers of Wars 0
Ta-Nehisi Coates looks behind the curtain at the perpetual destruction machine as illustrated by the reappearance of Condoleeza Rice into public discourse:
The crucial take-away, as regards our public discourse at least, is that being always wrong about everything gets you a gig at the Washington Post.
Electric Moments In Media 0
Lee Camp reports (warning: language):
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness begins at home.
At the scene officials were told that a 2-year-old child had reportedly shot himself with a handgun.
The solution to this is clearly more guns.
Leaps of Logic 0
The Roanoke Times gives space to a representative of the “everybody must get fracked” crowd. His article is called Fracking Is Earth-Friendly.
His reasoning goes something like this:
Because we build roads, which affect the environment, causing earthquakes and introducing methane into drinking water are good things.
Of course, the argument is all dressed up in its Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, but that’s pretty much what it amounts to.
Endangered Road Boulders* 0
Georgia poised to crush the stones:
With the state House already signing off on the measure, all it needs is Gov. Nathan Deal’s signature to become law.
I certainly see the rationale for this, but I wonder whether folks who think fifteen miles an hour over the speed limit is their right will seize on this to justify their tailgating.
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*”Road boulder” is a phrase from Gary Richards’s excellent Roadshow column.
