May, 2015 archive
Patriot Games 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, has a question:
Much more Molinaro at the link.
A Plane Statement 0
He had all he could stands he couldn’t stands no more.
I flew into Charlotte once, back in my road warrior days. It was the only airport I had seen with a snack bar in the baggage claim area.
I found out why. I could have roasted a turkey before my bag appeared . . . .
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . are as a sounding brass or a tinkling bell or, more accurately, a schtick for the rubes, a con, an act, a flim-flam.
Furrfu.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
You can relax. More politeness patrols the polity.
NRA Paradise proliferates.
A Gaggle of Geese, a Vault of Billionaires 0
Warning: Taste.
“Isolated Incidents,” Reprise 0
In the eye of the beholder:
Legal Beagles in the Dog House 0
From the stuff you can’t make up department: In Florida, some lawyers have got their briefs all in a twist.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Somewhat better.
The four-week average for jobless claims decreased to 266,250 in the period ended May 16 from 271,750, a Labor Department report showed Thursday in Washington.
(snip)
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits decreased by 12,000 to 2.21 million in the week ended May 9, the lowest level since November 2000.
Republican efforts to counter this trend are, no doubt, continuing.
Spill Here, Spill Now 0
The legacy of Buccaneer Petroleum continues to expand.
The scientists said large numbers of dead bottlenose dolphins found stranded along shores since the spill suffered from lung and adrenal lesions caused by swimming in oil-contaminated seas.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite with your sawyer.
According to Muhannad, the weapon was a modified shotgun.
“It was a shotgun that had apparently been altered,” Muhannad said. “The barrel had been sawed off, and the stock was shortened.”
Guns and stupid–always a delightful combination.
Motherhood and Apple Pie 0
Americans seem to be all for motherhood, except for the part about actually acting like a mother.
Jesus.
Brackets 0
Dick Polman offers his suggestion for managing the Republican “debates”: Brackets. He says, “Under my system, only a manageable handful will make it to debate night.”
Here’s his list of proposed brackets; follow the link to see who he thinks should be in each one.
- The blasphemy bracket.
- The nutjob bracket.
- The bloodlust bracket.
- The quack bracket.
- The chutzpah bracket.
- The random bracket.
Stages of Racism 0
China Hand tries to make sense of the minstrel show. A snippet:
There was that. Well, there still is that, but a closer look at the minstrel show reveals that the flip side of southern black inferiority was northern white superiority which, in turn, unexpectedly fed back into ideas of southern white superiority.
Read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More friendly politeness in NRA Paradise . . .
. . . and another gun that “discharged” itself.
