May, 2013 archive
Shelter from the Storm 4
Dick Polman notes that public buildings, such as schools, in Moore, Oklahoma, right smack at the intersection of I-35 and I-Tornado, do not have storm shelters, because freedom.
Maybe I’m just a blue-state guy posing a blue-state question, but I have to ask: Isn’t it the prime responsibility of government to protect its citizens, and provide for the common good?
Apparently not in red-state alley, because this is where Freedom comes in.
Sequestrian Dressage 0
Stalking Talking Points 0
Reg Henry is fed up with talking points:
But then some chronically political person decided that the plain story would never do. It would be better to arrange the salient facts into a persuasive sequence in order to win arguments. The talking point, its hour come round at last, slouched toward Washington to be born.
Read the rest.
Sequestrian Dressage 0
It is an article of faith amongst the wingnutosphere that the evul fedrul guvmint is mostly a waste of money and doesn’t do anything productive (except, natch, for blowing people up in far away places with strange sounding names). Therefore, budgets can be cut ruthlessly and heedlessly, because all that spending is for nothing (except, natch, &c.)
Then, when they discover that the evul fedrul guvmint does do real things that affect real people, and that those heedless, ruthless budget cuts might affect stuff that they care about, they make a sound similar to that of stuck pigs.
The proposal has produced sharp reaction from meteorologists and an elected official.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Light Bloggery 0
Editing.
No Self-Awareness Whatsoever 0
I guess it’s because they don’t want to admit they are racists, even to themselves, that most racists cannot recognize when they are doing something racist.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
News Ripped from the Ticker 0
The usual warning: Language, no taste.
