2012 archive
A Picture Is Worth, Republican War on Women Dept. 2
Republican late-night fantasy fodder, from ABL.
As Atrios reminds us, these are truly horrible people.
Facebook Frolics 0
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Droning On 0
“Look! Up in the Sky! It’s Super Drone!”
What Might Little Ricky Look Like with a Beard? 0
See Political Prof for the answer.
On Fanaticism: What Hanlon Said 0
This is an episode of what Hanlon said.
Facebook Frolics 0
Symbolic equality the Facebook way:
KATIE MacTurk and Megan Edwards got the best Valentine’s Day gift they could have asked for yesterday.
Vindication.
St. Joseph’s University’s alumni association announced that the lesbian couple were the winners of its controversial “How I Met My Hawkmate” Facebook contest, based on the number of “likes” their entry received.
Their victory came after the university initially removed their entry from the webpage, only to reverse its decision last week amid a hail of protest.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Despite the best efforts of Republicans in Congress, we may have a trend:
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The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits dropped by 100,000 in the week ended Feb. 4 to 3.43 million, the fewest since August 2008. The continuing claims figure does not include the number of workers receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
Another Reason To Try the Gum 0
If you really have to have something to hold, how about an unlit, empty pipe?
Unsound of the Ultrasound 4
Headline from today’s local rag, referring to one of the anti-abortion bills in the state legislature:
Of course the bill is medically unsound.
It has nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with the skeevy Republican obsession with the sex lives of persons to whom they haven’t even been introduced.
Afterthought:
Then there’s the mandatory ultrasound thing.
A hand up every skirt. What a platform!
Misdirection Plays 0
Why, half a century after the invention of The Pill, has birth control become an issue?
Shaun Mullen thinks he knows:
Follow the link for the rest. It’s delicious.
If It Doesn’t Make the Cut for Sausage . . . 0
. . . then it must be scrapple.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness with pets:
His neighbor, a 27-year-old man who police said is the owner of the Chihuahua and the German shepherd involved, was arrested at the scene, on Torresdale Avenue near Hellerman Street.
At the time of his arrest, he was carrying a holstered 9mm semiautomatic pistol that police believe was the weapon used in the slaying, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
More persons packing more heat produces more politeness.
Breaking Spells 0
One cloud of magickal developer thinking officially disperses.
While the public-private partnership was all but dead after losing political support earlier this year, the City Council’s action was needed to end exclusive negotiations with Armada Hoffler, the development company that would have built the hotel.
You can be certain that, even as I type, small circles of developers gather in their mystical circles conference rooms, weaving their mysterious Points of Power, preparing new incantations to entice an unwitting public to burn yet more money on the altar of empty conference centers, vacant hotels, and broken projections.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
At Psychology Today, Peter Corning points out that there was much more to Adam Smith’s beliefs than an unfeeling reverence for acquisitiveness and for letting Goldman fill his sacks in any way he can.