April, 2011 archive
How To Spot a Racist 0
Sentences starting with “I am not a racist” are usually a pretty sure fire indication.
Watch the video at the link, if you can.
I lasted about two and half minutes before I couldn’t take it any more.
Via Balloon Juice.
Facebook Frolics 0
When the Dollar Is the Only Value . . . 0
. . . you hear things like this.
Let’s look at the assumption in it:
- The investigation, not the evidence of misconduct which led to the investigation, is held responsible for the bank’s troubles.
There’s something upside down and backwards about that kind of reasoning.
QOTD 0
Thomas Jefferson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Stray Question 0
Why does the rose with the sharpest thorns always get the worst case of black spot?
Track Record 0
When considering this:
. . . remember that these are the same folks who said the mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and credit-default swaps were good things.
The Entitlement Society 0
Can’t Tell the Liars without a Scorecard (Updated) 0
Race to the Bottom of the Teapot 0
Every once and a while, teabaggers reveal what truly lies beneath their (you will pardon the expression but in some ways it is most accurate) movement.
Belly Up 0
Tax Fax 1
In a long article at Philly dot com, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele analyze the BIg Lie that American corporations are taxed too heavily (or even, in some cases, at all). A nugget from the introduction:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
First Rose 0
My container roses survived the winter quite nicely.
Also, light bloggery.
Twits on Twitter 0
Mitt the Flip makes a blip.
What Atrios Said 0
What Atrios said. (Though the voting profile doesn’t apply to my state. Wish it did, but doesn’t. Southern Strategy and all that.)
