2012 archive
Republican Science Is a Wonderful Thing, Reprise 0
Philly dot com, after extensive investigation, has uncovered addition tenets of Republican science, to supplement the belief that a woman can’t get pregnant from rape unless she secretly enjoyed it. A snippet; follow the link for the rest:
- Female hormones turn off barbecues and cause steering wheels to spin out of control.
- Heart disease is what happens when a man’s body punishes him for eating like a girl.
- If a woman has big breasts, that means she likes you.
Cutting the Cord 2
Steve Wiegand explains why his familty decided to ditch their cable telly vision.
Follow the link to find out how it went.
Republican Science Is a Wonderful Thing 3
Continuing the Republican practice of saying whatever sounds good at the moment, Republican candidate Todd Akin claimed this weekend that women (I’m paraphrasing here) can’t get pregnant from rape unless they enjoyed it.
(Honestly, folks, you can’t make this stuff up–unless you are a Republican. Then anything goes.)
To foster understanding of how this biological process works, ABL has helpfully posted a diagram.
Facebook Frolics 0
Dick Destiny explains the magic of how Facebook knows everything about you (or at least thinks it does).
Lies and Lying Liars 0
E. J. Dionne compares the Democratic and Republican positions on Medicare. A snippet:
How misleading is the Romney argument? The liberal blogger Steve Benen summarized the GOP’s strange logic perfectly: “that Barack Obama is a left-wing socialist who wants government-run socialized medicine and that Barack Obama is a far-right brute who wants to undermine government-run socialized medicine,” i.e., Medicare. It doesn’t add up, does it?
In Wingnut World, stuff doesn’t have to add up. It just has to sound good today.
Then something else can sound good tomorrow.
Playing Cowboys and Indians 0
Toys for the New Gilded Age.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle sporting arguments with politeness.
The incident happened just before 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Police say three people were shot following an altercation between a group of 8 men between the ages of 18 and 22-years-old, and a couple in the parking lot of the sports center on Gender Road.
I used to take First Son to this place to practice batting for Little League Lo! these many years ago.
It’s Electric 0
Lisa Scottolini tells about her devotion to her electronic face washer.
Why?
Because I can’t be expected to wash my face all by myself.
That would be free, easy, and normal.
Also I read that the electronic face washer exfoliates your skin, and as all women know, exfoliate is the magic word.
Somewhere, Billy Mays is smiling.
Football uber Alles, Stoking the Machine 0
The local rag has a breathless gee-whiz story with a banner headline, backed by five-inch high color pictures, on the front page of today’s sports section. The story itself takes up two full inner pages with no ads.
It’s about the prospects of rising senior football gladiators, what kind of years they might have, what their prospects are for this season and for their futures following graduation.
Rising high school seniors.
And later this season there will no doubt be many columns agonizing about how this college football program or that high school football program or this player or that player went so far wrong with some transgression or other.
Not that there could be any relationship, oh no, not at all, move along now, nothing to see here.
“What’s the Plan?” 0
The week in #RomneyShambles. It’s 20 minutes of worth it.
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