2015 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
Today there is one less friend in NRA Paradise.
Facebook Frolics 0
A little fracas down the road a piece:
According to court testimony, the case stemmed from a Facebook post Randall made last year.
Randall wrote that he regretted voting for Moody and referenced the councilman’s “side family.”
In 2013, it became public that Moody fathered a child outside of his marriage.
If saying something to someone’s face would be, as they say, “asking for it,” so too would saying it on Facebook.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ken Eisold explores the workings of oligarchy. A snippet:
But there is another factor: the status and power of the oligarchy depends on large sums of money required to sustain their social position. In paying each other such immense sums, they are also ensuring the continuation and power of their class.
Facebook Frolics 0
One more time, teach yourself that the internet is a public place.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you can’t be polite to your friends, who can you be polite to?
A Fraud Is Not a “Mistake.” It’s a Fraud. 0
From the AP wires (full story at the link):
No, no, no, no.
Mismatching socks is a mistake.
The Great and Glorious Patriotic War of a Lie in Iraq was not a mistake.
Mistakes are accidents. Cons are on purpose. Same like “Republican Family Values,” it was a con. It was a purposeful orchestrated well-planned-out con, and the con artists still profit thereby.
Sending people to their deaths for a lie is not a “mistake.” It’s a crime, and the criminals have not and likely will not face justice.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Yet another Republican steps into the quicksand legacy of President George the Worst’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.
Lies, if and once they come to light, do have a way of coming back to bite their adherents in the nether regions, do they not?
Let the biting continue.
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.
