June, 2013 archive
The Entitlement Society, Regency Dept. 2
Rachel outlines how the Regency went to the dog.
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All this, of course, while Cooch was AG.
You can’t make this stuff up. And, frankly, you wouldn’t.
There’s a pettiness about ripping off the public for vet supplies that is quite stupefying.
Via The Richmonder.
Stars and Bars 0
When out-of-town family was in town week before last, I gave a driving tour of the area.
A pickup truck sporting the Stars and Bars across the rear window passed us on Granby Street.
“Aha,” says I, “There goes a bigot.”
Because, really, if you flaunt the Stars and Bars, it conveys only one message.
And it’s got nothing to do with “Southern culture,” grits, or cooking with fat meat.
Tracing Ingredients 0
Just where did that grocery item come from, anyway?
That’s become a bit of an issue in these parts since major stockholders in Smithfield Foods forced its sale to a Chinese firm so they could cash in on their major stockholdings. The issue strikes close to home because iffy Chinese industrial and consumer safety practices have struck (close to) homes here before.
Anyhoo, the answer to the question at the beginning is, “Good luck, suckers.”
Here’s a nugget from an excellent column in my local rag.
“It’s who’s going to take responsibility for that product,” she said, but not necessarily the entity that controls that responsible party.
Boxes of the cereal Weetabix, originally a British brand, say it is “manufactured by The Weetabix Food Co. Ltd.” in Ontario, Canada, and identify it as a “product of Canada.” Nowhere does it mention Bright Food, the Chinese company that bought Weetabix last year.
Read the rest.
Twits on Twitter, Texas-Sized Twits Dept. 0
“I’m not racist, but” is always an oxymoron.
Theft of Services 0
More on Republican attempts to destroy public education.
In Wingnut World, there is no such thing as the “public good.”
Wastes of Space 0
News pieces about what a Supreme Court ruling might mean if the Court rules this way or that.
Might as well play the ponies.
At least you get some fresh air (as long as you do it at the track and not at the OTB parlor).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebration time, avec politesse.
Police tell The Sun Sentinel (http://bit.ly/129Qxb3) that they think the bullet was from celebratory gunfire prompted by the Heat’s win. Miramar Police spokeswoman Tania Rues says police received multiple calls about shots fired in the area and that it doesn’t appear Reid was targeted.
Facebook Frolickers, TMI Dept. 0
The internet is a public place.
Remember that.
The grandparent scam is not new, but the social-media connection is an emerging trend, according to MoneyGram International Inc., a Dallas-based money-wire services company. Nearly one-third of consumers ages 18 to 49 reveal details of their vacations online, which criminals can exploit, according to a recent survey sponsored by the company.
Read the rest, then update your status to “Forewarned is forearmed.”
The Deen of Southern Culture 0
Drape the Stars and Bars over it and thereby hide the obvious.
My ancestors wore the grey, and even I can understand that it was all about theft of labor (play the video if you want to get it).
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, wrap up theft of labor in misty grey-colored memories, add grits, and it becomes “Southern culture.”
I’ll stop now, before the profanity.
Outre 0
I really don’t know what to make of this, other than it’s really creepy.
The townsfolk seem to be circling the wagons, but they are circling them in the wrong direction.
Anal rape with foreign objects of a teammate seems to me to go beyond simple hazing or schoolyard bullying.
Mooned 0
I was planning to take out my tripod and try my (relatively) new camera with oodles of megapixels and a long lens at some moonshots tonight.
I find myself downcast at the overcast.
Offside-Eye 0
Maddy Blythe had at least four sacks playing for Strong Rock Christian School’s team last year, but just this week, the school’s CEO told her that she would no longer be able to play.
I suspect that the boys are going to have all the impure thoughts they want, whether or not this little girl is playing football with them.
But, frankly, the more I see, the more I am convinced that the persons with the mostest impurest thoughts of all are those persons who loudly proclaim how Christian they are.
Plus Ca Change 0
What was old is new again.
Connie Schultz remembers:
I responded by sharing a story from 1979, when I was editor of my college newspaper, the Daily Kent Stater. Shortly before the fall semester began, we found out that an administrator had derailed plans to distribute a brochure about birth control methods during freshman orientation.
We decided on several front pages to the topic. . . .
Thirty-four years later, I still recall one particular father’s call. “You listen here, young lady,” he shouted into the phone. “I will never let my daughter stick an IUD up her rectum.”
“Good for you,” I said, “’cause that’s not where it goes.”
In 1979, that father sounded like an uninformed loon.
Today, he could be a Republican member of Congress.
A Picture Is Worth 0
Elsewhere, Chauncey Devega rominates on the topic. Follow the link to read the rest; you’ll be glad you did:
Birtherism, and Republican Joe Wilson’s unprecedented heckling of President Barack Obama during his State of the Union Address in 2009 is a parallel to Paula Deen’s fantasy.
Conspiranoid fantasies of Secession and a second Civil War are also part of this national derangement on the part of the White Right and Tea Party GOP. The murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, and how Republicans have rallied to Zimmerman’s defense, is a reflection of a foundational assumption that black people must always be subservient, and surrender to White authority–as well as those overly identified and enamored with it–in any circumstance.
Projecting forward, at the end of her saga Paula Deen will be forced to publicly apologize for her racism. In that moment, and keeping with script, she will also channel some tears in order to get back into the good graces of her fans.
Image via Contradict Me.
