2014 archive
The Three P’s 0
“The Three P’s” comes before “the three R’s.”
Accordlingly, teachers in Philly have lost their contractual health benefits, because, in Republican World, contracts and promises have no meaning.
Will Bunch explains how Republicanism trumps contracts and commitments. A nugget (follow the link for more on the three P’s):
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Light Bloggery 0
Family matters.
My aunt has passed away at 102.
She was ready to go.
Now I go to say farewell.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite so as to ensure domestic tranquility.
The woman is in the hospital recovering from all that politeness.
QOTD 0
Eddie Izzard:
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
As I write this, qotd.org, my favorite quotations site, has been off the air for several days. I’ve corresponded with Van, creator of the site; he’s a hell of a nice fellow and I hope everything is okay with him.
Sauce for the Goose 0
Jessica Valenti wants parity.
So, before engaging in any sexual act that could lead to procreation, what if all men had to undergo years of male-centric, abstinence-only education to learn about the horrors and all-around grossness of male sexuality? And what if the standards for how we legislated male sexuality and what we taught about it were based on scientific data of the same quality as that which is applied to women?
Follow the link for some examples.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to random strangers.
Every city, Dodge City. Every hill, Boot Hill.
Made-Up Heroes 0
I seldom agree with Michael Smerconish. I once described him to Atrios as “an Every Man, Fred Flintstone with a typewriter.” Nevertheless, I do think that, unlike most persons who call themselves “conservative,” he tries to live in the real world.
In this case, he got one right.
Phony symbols are worse than no symbols at all.
Facebook, M. D. 0
According to El Reg, Facebook wants to be your doctor.
Facebook wants to swerve criticism about privacy, apparently, by releasing its first health app under a different name, which New York’s drag community might shrill at given the recent backlash the social network suffered over anonymity.
In this case, “M. D.” means “More Data.” Facebook is looking for new ways to spy on you so as to better serve you–better serve you ads, that is.
Why people who willingly run naked through Facebook and Google and their like scream their heads off about the NSA without seeing the contradictions is beyond me.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Never joke with the polite.
Martin’s boyfriend asked Orsborn to “just chill” after he said something that upset her.
At some point, Martin “jokingly slapped the defendant across the face,” the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said. Witnesses said that Orsborn took the gun out of his shorts pocket and shot Martin in the forehead.
When everyone is packing, incidents such as this will, no doubt, cease.
The “Privatization Scam” 0
A company that cares only for its own self is incapable of serving the public good.
Have Cake, Eat It Too 0
The same folks who claim to eschew Big Government and who believe that there is no such thing as the public good now demand that Big Government protect them from ebola and ISIS for the public good.
Pah!