April, 2010 archive
Clip Joint 2
Then he cleaned their teeth with Rustoleum, no doubt.
Stupid Car Tricks 1
They are running in to anything that is not moving.
Pacman 0
“Liberty Now” is designed to “support the efforts of Ken Cuccinelli in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to elect Republicans to non-federal offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” according to a filing made by the organization with the IRS last month.
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“Ken was a Tea Partier before there was a Tea Party,” one Virginia Republican told the New York Times.
Kook-kook-ka-choo.
“Soul Default Swaps” 0
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Via TPM, which has a montage of McCain’s McMavericky statements.
Griffins?!? 0
The effort to name a new mascot had come down to a pug, griffin, phoenix, wren and king and queen.
This is hardly a Glorious Evolution. Oranges would have been a better choice.
K9 Rations 0
Not really sure what I think of this, except that the judges probably made the only legally permissible ruling:
A three-judge Commonwealth Court panel upheld a Department of Public Welfare determination that the dog was ineligible because he is not human.
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Douris, 55, of Newtown, is a disabled and unemployed veteran who lives alone and relies on the dog to pull his wheelchair and fetch items.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Firearms do have a way of going off, even at the Easter Parade:
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A woman who called 911 after the shooting told the dispatcher she shot her niece. The woman does not give her name. The woman says in the 911 call that she got a gun to prove a point during an argument and the weapon went off.
Life under the Regency, Reviving the Past Dept. (Updated) (Updated Again) 2
This is embarrassing:
Republican governors George Allen and Jim Gilmore issued similar proclamations. But in 2002, Warner broke with their action, calling such proclamations, a “lightning rod” that does not help bridge divisions between whites and blacks in Virginia.
One of my ancestors was a General in the CSA. Several others wore the grey. I honor my ancestors.
I do not honor the lost cause.
They lost and it is good that they lost.
Certainly, some of the persons who fought wearing the grey were honorable men by the lights of their times.
That was then. We–well, some of us–have learned much since then.
It was not an honorable cause, whatever Robert E. Lee or Henry Alexander Wise may have thought at the time.
Honoring the lost cause honors racism, bigotry, and slavery.
Those who honor it say more about themselves than they do about the lost cause.
It is time to stop honoring the lost cause, to stop honoring racism, bigotry, and slavery, even as we may still treasure the memory of our ancestors.
News story via Balloon Juice.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
The Regent and the UDC.
Addendum-De-Dum-Dum:
The Regent misunremembered that whole slavery thingee.
Coming out the Other Side 0
An ex-skinhead speaks Wednesday for Peace Week at Old Dominion University:
Leyden thinks there is a direct link between the election of the nation’s first African American president and the recent proliferation of hate groups. Another factor, he says, is the sour economy.
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Moreover, Leyden said, he is enough of an optimist to believe that humans are evolving as moral beings.
More on Peace Week here.
The Hand that Heals 0
Or not.
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Via TPM.
The Price of Living in a Civilized Society 0
Comment from Blue Virginia:
Aside: I wish I owed more taxes this year. That would mean that I made more money.
Via Not Larry Sabato.
Epic Fail Fail 0
The Guardian:
In truth, this probably means the putdown phrase has now – ahem – jumped the shark . . . .
In other news of fail, I was listening to Linux Outlaws yesterday when Fab tried to say “a fail on my part” and failed on his part.
“Mouse. I Don’t See No Stinking Mouse.” 2
H/T Susan for the pic.
