First Looks category archive
Light Bloggery 0
Family matters through Monday.
Scam Alert 0
Telephone scam du jour:
If victims refuse to send money, callers will threaten them with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
The usual warnings.
Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen! 0
Faded glory.
I remember seeing her traversing the Chesapeake when I was a young ‘un.
There’s a picture of her at the link.
Susie Sampson’s Sister’s* Silly Sports 0
The incoherence of some of the answer is astounding.
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*Will the real Susie Sampson please stand up?
Light Bloggery, Reprise 0
The fever dreams were actually quite entertaining.
Last night, the fever broke. No more fever dreams.
Light Bloggery 0
I’m calling in sick. I have a code in de dose.
Light Bloggery 0
Time off.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Crazification Factor 0
It’s a reliable, steady 27%. For example, from Delaware Liberal,
Backfire 2
Dick Polman dissects the Republican backpedaling from the decision by Senator Cruz-missile and his teabags to blow up the economy over the Affordable Care Act. It doesn’t seem to be working out all that well for the geniuses behind it.
A snippet:
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Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of politics – a minority of a minority in one legislative chamber can’t outfight a president who handily won re-election – knew that the GOP would wind up the loser in a shutdown showdown. Indeed, the smartest conservatives knew it, and warned against it.
Instead, the saboteurs are currently looking for something, anything, that might pass muster with President Obama and help extricate them from their ill-fated drive around the ideological cul de sac.Expect the teabaggers to portray themselves as martyrs willing to nobly sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Heaven forbid they be seen as power-hungry hacks who think governance is a video game in which it’s okay to sacrifice the general welfare for hit-points.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.