2012 archive
Stray Thought 0
It is most disconcerting to hear the decades of one’s youth referred to with the phrase, “in that era.”
In a Nutshell 0
Mitt the Flip’s flip side.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Convening in Tampa.
Truly Vile People 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Details at the link.
Words fail me.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 0
A letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer reminds disaffected lefties that creating change takes work, not magic.
Here’s a nugget:
This is what change looks like: Forty-some millionaires and billionaires fund the flood of negative ads across the airwaves. Romney approves flat-out lies – in three waves of welfare attack ads, despite independent fact-checkers and Mr. Conservative, Joe Scarborough (“Morning Joe”), discrediting his claims. No shame – the ads continue!
Read the whole thing.
Then take his advice and grow up already.
Snakes on a Plane 0
Yes, really.
I’m Back 0
Spent yesterday trying to get my new modem on line. For some fool reason, it and the router would not talk.
I actually arranged for my ISP to send out some techs. They walked into the room, looked at the modem, and it starting talking to the router.
As we used to say in tech support, FM.
Now to catch up on the old RSS feeds.
QOTD 0
Dorothy Parker, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Down at the Farm 0
The cable modem is celebrating the birthday of this blog by going to that big recycling bin in the sky.
It’s not completely gone, but goes in and out.
The regularly scheduled insanity will resume when the connection does.
Meanwhile, visit some of the fine blogs in the blogroll, over there, on the sidebar.
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Happy Birthday to Me 0
Celebrating seven years ofuninterrupted drivel unleashed
on the innerwebs!
Every time I think I’ve run out of blogging juice, Republicans do something to re-energize the outrage.
I shall celebrate by taking it easy today.
Kinks 0
Sally Kalston has had it up to here with Republican rape fantasies:
What is it with these heavy-breathing Republican men and their rape fantasies?
How did they become so salaciously contemptuous of women that they see the term “sexual assault” as an oxymoron?
Did their mothers once catch them after church reading dirty magazines under the covers, and did it warp their sexual development for all time? Are they so ashamed of their own urges that it compels them to cast rape victims as evil temptresses who must have been asking for it and therefore deserve additional punishment after the fact?
Light Bloggery 0
Connection issues. Back when it is.
We Need Single Payer 0
The underspending rebate checks mandated by the ACA are starting to arrive.
Wonder how many insurance company country-club memberships will go begging?
In the Pennsylvania individual market, Aetna Life Insurance Co., which also sells health insurance, spent just 67.1 percent of the money collected from subscribers in 2011 on health care. Averback’s check was a rebate.
Once she realized that the check was real, she had another thought. “I guess that shows you how much they were ripping me off,” she said.
