2015 archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Hail to the twits!
WHEEEEEEEE! 0
The funnest Republican thing–mongering war.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle disputes with your neighbors, politely.
An argument broke out, and it quickly got heated: Outlaw, 53, pulled out the gun and fired at point-blank range, hitting Pitts-Devine eight times in the torso, the sources said.
He then calmly walked upstairs to his second-floor apartment, closed the door and shot himself in the head. He died about an hour later at Penn Presbyterian, according to police.
Sources say Outlaw had no criminal record, and had a permit for the gun he used in the vicious attack.
According to the story, Mr. Outlaw also had a history of making paranoiac claims about his neighbor’s actions.
NRA paradise approacheth apace.
It’s Cultastic 0
Shaun Mullen explains an analogy (I remember boning up on analogies for my SATs):
Full Disclosure:
The explanation is Shaun’s. The analogy is mine.
The Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism is of a piece with the Republican Party’s attempt to co-opt Christianity. Both are attempts to hoodwink persons of faith–however misguided that faith may be–for earthly power; both are contemptible for their crude, craven, and manipulative cynicism.
I wonder whether Republicans can recognize or admit how similar their tactics are to those of the Chinese Reds? Can they see themselves in the mirr–oh, never mind.
The Privatization Scam 0
Another privatization scammer goes bust.
IFM Investors purchased ITR Concession Co., which holds the lease on the 157-mile highway across northern Indiana for another 66 years. ITR Concession had declared bankruptcy on more than $6 billion in debt last September, and a federal bankruptcy judge in Chicago approved a plan to put the lease out to bid.
It’s not just bad policy, it’s bad business to try to wring private profits from public responsibilities.
Via Eschaton.
Facebook Frolics 0
The idea of a black man in the White House continues to drive Republicans bonkers.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Cavalcade of Stupid (Updated) 2
Truth in Labeling 0
The Kraken is all for it. Here are a few of his examples:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The South may have lost the war, but it is still fighting to win the peace.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Better.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, fell to 302,250 from 306,000 the week before,
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits declined by 5,000 to 2.42 million in the week ended Feb. 28, while the unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.8 percent. These figures are reported with a one-week lag.
Foxy Shady 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., thinks Fox News’s decision, not only to countenance, but to support Bill O’Reilly as more persons publicize his perfidy says a lot about Fox News. A snippet (emphasis added):
This rather neatly makes the point I sought to make a month ago. Namely, that Fox – the window-dressing presence of a few bona fide reporters notwithstanding – is not a real news-gathering organization but, rather, the propaganda arm of an extreme right wing that grows ever more cult-like and detached from reality as time goes by. Fox is a belief system, not a news network. Exhibit A is the fact that O’Reilly is not now fighting for his professional life.
To anticipate what his believers will say in his defense: Yes, he is a pundit and yes, pundits are entitled to their opinions. But that does not release them from the obligation to be factual.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It’s in the bag . . .
Lt. Phillip Young said the woman’s Glock went off while the couple sat in a vehicle outside a residence in the 1400 block of Virgil H. Goode Highway in Bassett about 3:30 p.m. The man, who was in the driver’s seat, put a drink can in the woman’s purse before putting his hand on her leg.
. . . and another gun that fires itself. I swear that we have reached the gunularity.
Via Southern Beale.
Facebook Frolics 0
And some persons claim that there is no such thing as “rape culture.”