2011 archive
A Movable Farce 0
Just as I predicted.
Rapture Rapup 0
From Andy Borowitz. A snippet:
More at the link.
T-Pawty 0
With apologies to Peter Bergman, from whom I stole the title. He doesn’t think T-Paw has a prayer with the teabaggers. His reasoning:
That leaves T-Paw, who’s done his damnedest to kiss the Tea Party’s ring. He’s performed his mea culpas for protecting the environment, and is parroting the cant of draconian budget cuts and tax relief for the rich. But it won’t be enough. Pawlenty, bless his beige, Minnesota persona, isn’t crazy enough for the Tea Party. If they can’t convince Bachmann or Palin to lead a third party, they’ll write them in, or do whatever they can to spoil the GOP’s chances in 2012, and perhaps for decades thereafter.
Drinking Liberally Wednesday in Virginia Beach 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us.
When: Wednesday, May 25, 6 p
Where:
Kelly’s Tavern
1936 Laskin Rd, # 201
Virginia Beach, Va. (Map)
More here.
New OTR Links 0
I’ve added several more old time radio links to the Old Time Radio item over there
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on the sidebar.
Rapturous Results 0
The Shockoe Literary Messenger, in an attempt to explain their disappearance, theorizes that Gingrinch supporters appear to have been raptured.
More at the link.
Fiduciary Responsibility 0
Bankster style:
He was annoyed. “When Countrywide had it I paid my own taxes,” said Bohannon, 67. “I always paid them and I didn’t think I had to worry about it.”
But Bohannon, who is semi-retired and cares for disabled people in his home, wasn’t half as annoyed as he was last month when he got a letter from his town saying his property taxes, due April 10, had not been paid. He was delinquent.
The bank sent the town a lump-sum check for all its mortgage customers in the jurisdiction. The town sent it back, along with a letter and a phone call, because it was for an incorrect amount. That was the last the town heard of it.
Also, Vermont apparently has a exceptionally complicated system for figuring property taxes.
But, really now, that’s what computers are for.