May, 2015 archive
Stray Question 0
What’s with all the television mystery series’ ending their seasons with cliffhangers?
Do the big brains at the studios seriously expect that, at our Fourth of July picnics, we’ll be wondering how the September (or October or maybe even November after the college football season) opening episode of “Life in the Fast Lane” will pull our heroes back from the edge of the cliff or, for that matter, we’ll remember it at all?
Furrfu.
Bush League 0
Paul Krugman sees more to Jeb Bush’s week of wonderful waffling on the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq than what it might say about him. He finds it symptomatic of larger problems within the Republican Party and its ideological world-view. A bit (emphasis added):
Follow the link.
Republican Family Values 0
One more time: it’s a schtick for the rubes, a con, a flim-flam, a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, signifying nothing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice random acts of politeness.
The gun was in a box — one of the boys found it and began playing with it.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
A State of Jeopardy 0
John Romano puts the answers in the form of questions.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Invasive specious:
(snip)
Smith said the (Virginia’s Department of Conservation and Recreation–ed.) department, which has just 13 people to oversee 55,000 acres, doesn’t allow the building of structures or postings by citizens on its preservation areas.
The hanging of the flag is “not something that we would condone,” he added.
Follow the link to see the reporter try to put a good face on sedition.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
The firearm discharged while Jordan was examining the gun, according to Capt. John Lewis of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis also stated that the transaction was legal.
(And yet another gun fires itself . . . .)
Republican Jesus, Reprise 0
In the Roanoke Times, Halford Ryan traces the lineage of the “religious right.” A snippet:
(snip)
One hundred and fifty years later, the same backward mindsets, still mired in the miasma of scriptural fundamentalism, are even now hawking their biblical bigotry with regard to human sexuality.
Do read the rest.
“Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . .” 0
They must needs water their lawns, come hell or high water, and high water doesn’t seem to be an option.
“These are estate-size lots, and it takes a lot of water to keep that much grass green,” said Morada resident Ed Schroeder, 72, a retired hospital executive. “If we switch to meters and everyone lets their lawn go, it will change this whole neighborhood.”
God forbid that the public good take precedence over their front yards.
