2014 archive
“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?
Greybeard 0
I’m so old I can remember when the University of North Carolina was a respected institution of higher education.