August, 2009 archive
Internet Taking Over Your Life? 0
Scroll down here and click the “Off” switch.
American Conservatism 0
Well-described here.
Gun Nuttery 0
Air America asks, “What if Liberals packed heat at a Tea Party?”
Yeah. What if.
Watch Ron Reagan speak sense and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation speak double-talky gobbledegook:
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Related: A TPM reader shares some thoughts.
Why PowerPoint Is Evil 0
As a professional presenter, amongst other things, I loathe PowerPoint, amongst other things.
This article explains why.
Be sure to read the comments.
Twits on Twitter 2
Ya know, there might be an upside to Twitting after all:
ReagoBushonomics: The Dream 0
The end of government:
Non-essential services such as rubbish collections, libraries and health centres were closed, in the first of three planned reduced service days.
When Zombie Banks Walked the Earth 0
Christopher Swann considers pay in the banking industry and finds it grossly overblown.
That does not surprise. But he goes on to demolish the arguments the banksters use to claim that they are somehow different and deserve to be overpaid. A nugget:
Aside: If they were as smart as they claim to be, they wouldn’t keep blowing all those bubbles, now, would they?
Straight Talk 2
More persons need to confront the lies directly:
I have heard Congressman Frank interviewed several times. He doesn’t mince words.
Via Huffington Post.
Gun Nuttery 0
TimF at Balloon Juice locks and loads.
In the Grocery Store, Fall Has Fell 3
Outside, it’s still 98 Fahrenheits and sunny.
They also rearranged all their shelves and it took me ten minutes to find the crackers I like.
Criswell predicts that we’ll see Christmas decorations start to appear by the end of September.
Dialysis Dialectic 0
A caller to the Diane Rehm show looks at the arguments against health care reform and nails their internal contradiction:
- Argument One: No government program can be good.
Argument Two: Private insurers can’t compete against the government.
And follows it to the logical conclusion:
- If no government program is good and
if the private insurers can’t compete against a government program,
then the private insurance system must therefore be really, really bad.
Why Do Viewers Watch This Stuff, Anyhoo? 2
I have enough reality of my own. I’m not interested in anyone else’s, especially when it’s unreal.
Rock Stare 1
I’m not the only one who thinks the new K-Mart “Rock Stare” commercial plumbs new depths of bad taste.
I felt icky watching it. And I have a very high ick threshold.
I can’t say it will keep me away from Kmart. Kmart has kept me away from Kmart for a long time already.
Video below the fold. I didn’t feel comfortable having it on the front page
Gun Nuttery 0
Brendan said it so I don’t have to. Follow the link:
They’ve already flipped. We’re just waiting for the out.
Connect the Dots 0
Senator Franken can draw a reasonable accurate map of the United States freehand, from memory.
Mudflats on the Frankenmap:
Aside: I had one of those map puzzles. Unlike the one I got for my kids, it was a straight jigsaw. It didn’t have any kind of frame.
Twits on Twitter 2
On the other side of the Big Pond:
Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, has been made the party’s new media campaigns spokeswoman ahead of an election next year that she says will be the first “new media election”. A recent study for a newspaper voted McCarthy the most “influential MP” on Twitter – with more than 1,600 followers.
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