June, 2009 archive
Q. When Is Parody Vandalism? 0
A. When it’s in the wrong place.
(snip)
The messages broadly lambasted – or lampooned – the transit system and many types of riders – from “drug addicts” to “obnoxious Penn students,” so SEPTA had them removed.
The agency is also actively looking for more signs.
“We do find the message very offensive in general,” Busch said.
Follow the link to read the text of the signs.
Wingnuttery: War as a First Resort 0
In the world of wingnut poliltical theory, the road to media success is intellectual failure. The resolution to what’s happening in Iran lies in Iran, not in the U. S.
Gary Kamiya on the resurgence of the Iran warmongers:
I Get Email, Network Neutrality Dept. 0
From Freepress dot net, on the big ISP’s current strategy for milking their customers for more money for no more service.
Read the press release here. Learn how to take action here.
Some people never give up.
Time Warner Cable is still trying to restrict Internet use and
shamelessly overcharge people who use the Web every day.But we’ve got a new bill in Congress and a plan to stop greedy phone
and cable companies from padding their pockets by curbing our Internet
use.(snip)
Stray Thought 0
How many trees would live if Verizon stopped browbeating me with letters to subscribe to their FiOS service in which I am intensely uninterested?
Twits on Twitter 0
It just doesn’t end.
Q. Have They No Shame? (Updated) 0
A. No.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
Will Bunch:
If Jack Murtha has his hands in the cookie jar (as appears more than possible), that’s not a good thing and ultimately harms more persons than Ensign flying his ensign in foreign waters.
But Murtha hasn’t been running around sanctimoniously pontificating about other persons’ hands in other cookie jars.
As George Washington Plunkitt famously said, “There’s honest graft and there’s dishonest graft.”
It’s not the affair.
It’s the hypocrisy.
The cut-throat self-righteous sanctimonious hypocrisy which is the dishonest graft of the Republican Party.
The Fee Hand of the Market (Updated) 0
How many people know that that had been improving since OSHA was created . . ., but over the past eight years that improvement stopped and in somei instances went backwards? .. . . (and) that that’s directly related to the disappearance of unions?
Phillip Dine on Radio Times (about 30 mins. in). Listen the the show here (MP3) or follow the link and search for June 15, 2008, and listen to Hour One.
Addendum:
More here.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Skippy Writes a Letter 0
Read it here.
Greater Wingnuttery XXVI 0
The clowns continue to parade.
Neo-Intervention 0
Here. (Warning: Mild adult content.)
Brendan Writes a Column 0
Read it here.
Surprise, Surprise 3
’nuff said:
Miami topped the annual poll for the last four years but voters in 25 major metropolitan areas gave New Yorkers the prize for angriest, most aggressive drivers who tailgate, speed, honk their horns, overreact and lose their tempers.
See the press release here.
I’m convinced that New Jersey wasn’t in the running solely because it is a state, not an SMSA, but, after extensive research (three minutes with Google), I was unable to find a complete list of contestants.
Therapy 0
Twits on Twitter
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Despite my low opinion of Twitter as a means for social networking (really, I do not care when XXX goes to lunch, and I suspect that almost no one cares when I do), I must concede that it seems to have its uses, despite itself.
