2015 archive
Macho Macho Men 0
Froma Harrop wonders who joins outlaw biker gangs. She gets an answer from James F. Quinn, a University of North Texas sociologist.
Women are not invited. Women are never members of a “1 percent club,” a reference to the tiny percentage of motorcyclists not considered law-abiding citizens. Women are there to serve, which is why the Waco bikers gravitated to a Hooters clone restaurant, where the waitresses wear tops cut low and shorts cut high.
“It’s No Secret How Weird My Love Is for You” 0
. . . not if it’s on the innerwebs.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . continue to amaze.
When one so fetishizes sex as do the family-values Bible-thumpers, no good can result.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“In your face” politeness:
Deputies responded after a man called 911 saying he’d shot his girlfriend in the face at their residence on Whites Chapel Road.
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.