2009 archive
My Cat Must Love Me 3
She keeps leaving the carcasses of her conquests for me.
At least she doesn’t do what a friend’s cat used to do.
His cat would tuck little mousey presents in his shoes while he was sleeping.
Oxy-Morons 0
Skippy explains.
In a Nutshell 0
Affirmative action was created to redress a wrong.
Here’s the problem: if Sotomayor did receive affirmative action help in getting into school (and I don’t think that we know that she did) then she is a pretty lousy example of an undeserving recipient, as she clearly took full advantage of her opportunity. Someone who graduates Summa Cum Laude from Princeton clearly deserved to be there.
As such, she would be (again, assuming she even received such a benefit) a perfect argument for affirmative action.
And, as a product of Jim Crow, I know damned well that lots of talented persons were denied lots of opportunities by the ruling majority. I saw it. And it still goes on. It’s just not so blatant as it used to be.
Only in Delaware 0
At the Arden Gild Hall, about two miles from here, where Second Son has appeared in several community theatre plays, at a Memorial Service that I did not attend for someone I did not know:
Clowns to the Right . . . 0
The open, naked descent of the Republican Party into their netherworld of hatred and bigotry over the nomination of Sonia Sotomajor to the Supreme Court has been a truly amazing thing to watch.
In less than a week, they have revealed their maggoty racist innards so as to surprise even me, whose low opinion of Republicanism is rivaled by no one’s.
And, Jeez oh man! I grew up under Jim Crow.
- [JIM CROW MODE ON]
Frankly, she looks white to me. I guess we wuz too busy hatin’ on black folks to worry us’ns with American citizens descended from other American citizens from the American territory of Puerto Rico.
[JIM CROW MODE OFF]
It is to throw up.
The Booman:
. . . I really don’t like having an openly racist party in this county, let alone one that is the only realistic alternative to the Democrats. It’s not healthy and it’s not safe. And I want someone to come along and put this GOP party out of its misery before it comes back to power through the power of inertia.
Video via Delaware Liberal.
We Need Single Payer 0
“Scott sought to turn Columbia into the McDonalds of the health care industry.”
Now he is spokesperson for the status quo. Wonder why?
Listen up.
Via the Great Orange Satan.
Greater Wingnuttery XXIV 0
Every time you think they’ve reached the bottom and there’s no more swamp left, they turn around and burrow deeper.
Help the Booman 0
His laptop died.
Sotomayor 0
The odious Southern strategy lives on.
Appealing to bigotry:
It’s second nature to them now,
like breathing out and breathing in.
Indeed, a lot of folks don’t seem to realize that Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Josh Marshall:
Video link via Atrios.
Ozzie and Harriet 0
Before the television show, there was the band:
Stray Thought 0
Remind me to add Dijon Mustard to my shopping list.