October, 2014 archive
Pharmaceuticals 0
I need some of this stuff for my email inbox. If I get one more email with the subject line, “Please, Frank, I’m begging you,” I shall go mad(der).
“Tell-tale signs you need immediate treatment include a gullible belief that the advertising depicting candidates as the walking dead is true. Other symptoms include a compulsive desire to DVR campaign advertising so it can be watched again and again, an insatiable urge to appear in a commercial as a willing shill for a candidate and a barely repressed yearning to stalk Sean Hannity.”
More miracle cures at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Dustbiters 0
One less bank:
Another one bit the dust last week and I missed it:
Fear and Mongers of Fear 0
Yves Smith asks a question:
Isn’t it likely that the anti-government, low-tax and pro-wealthy/pro-big business policies of the GOP politicos that have run these states for several decades have something to do with these negative results, and that the more progressive policies in the northeast and northwest are reflected in the much more positive results in those areas?
Yet rural, southern populations continue to proudly proclaim their allegiance, against their own economic interest, to ill-fated Reaganomics that favors tax cuts (for the wealthy and big business) coupled with use of old-time, regressive consumption taxes (toll roads, sales taxes and property taxes), privatization of public functions (e.g., charter schools managed by for-profit, nontransparent corporations), socialization of losses, militarization, and de-regulation.
The answer is simple: That’s what the hatin’ is all about.
As Lyndon Johnson once said,
Fetid Swampwater 0
Dick Polman on the recent belated conviction of a few of Blackwater’s mercs:
As Polman points out, there’s a lot more guilt to go around.
All Hallows’ Eve Approacheth . . . 0
. . . and there be monsters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A clean society is a polite society:
I Am So Over Football 2
I will never watch another football game again once more another time all over again.
Like Crabby Appleton, the game and everyone associated with it are rotten to the core.
Twits on Twitter 0
Who woulda thunk you can’t believe what twits twit?
