2015 archive
She Who It That Must Not Be Named
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Watch this Florida state official avoid using the words, “climate change,” which Governor Rick Scott absolutely positively swears on a stack of campaign contributions that he has not forbidden state officials to use.
Via Jacksonville.com, which has commentary.
Tipping Point? 0
Josh Marshall thinks that the reaction to Indiana’s recent law permitting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is qualitatively different from what’s happened in the past and that Indiana’s bigots did not anticipate it. A snippet:
Now Gov. Pence is reduced to lamely complaining that his and the legislatures efforts have been misunderstood or distorted. “I just can’t account for the hostility that’s been directed at our state,” Pence told the Indianapolis Star. “I’ve been taken aback by the mischaracterizations from outside the state of Indiana about what is in this bill.” He can’t even manage the standard, conservatives in my state are being victimized by the axis of gays and liberals. He seems genuinely surprised.
Pretzel Logic, Reprise (Updated) 0
In Republican World, a law that allows persons to discriminate is not about discrimination, because pretzels.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
PoliticalProf has a question.
It’s Time To Grow Up 1
One thing that irritates me most about my fellow lefties is the purists, the “so-and-so did not agree with me on my one little issue so I will start a third party/not vote/cut the soles out of my shoes and learn to live in a tree and play the flute” types.
Real life is not pure.
You have to live and vote in the real world. If you don’t, you are an idiot.
You may be a pure idiot, but you are still an idiot.
Attaining pure idiocy is less than an optimal life choice.
Projection Is a Not Just a Psychological Concept 0
It is something that people do so as not to face up to their own rotten selves.
The Last Round-Up 0
Heh.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Reg Henry finds the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ suit to compel Texas to allow them to display the flag of the secesh on their Texas license plates to be less than salutary.
Do follow the link and read the rest.
Blood Lust 0
In The Guardian, Ed Pilkington ruminates on the rationale for Utah’s return to the firing squad and America’s fascination with the death penalty.
Just read it.
“He Must Be High on Something, Someone Said” 0
The lust of the media to make make up myths about kids’ getting high on weird stuff that no one is actually getting high on mystifies many.
Pot Luck 0
Heh.
(snip)
The victim’s 17-year-old daughter told cops that she left the brownies out because she did not think anyone in her family would touch them (the girl was apparently unaware of the deep affinity middle-age men have to such unattended sweets).
Back in my younger days, I had one guiding principle: Don’t do something stupid and you won’t get caught.
Kids.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
NRA paradise comes to the home.
“We keep the keys put up on top of the fridge but he went up and got them.”
The toddler was shot once in the head inside a residence on Bon Jan Lane, according to Highland Heights police. Police have not said who they believed fired the shot. They did confirm that the mother and a 5-year-old boy were in the house when the girl was shot.