2013 archive
The Secesh 0
PoliticalProf sums up the strategy of the contemporary Republican Party by quoting Abraham Lincoln.
More at the link.
Both Sides Not 0
Excerpt:
“I offer a pox on both their houses when appropriate,” Stewart chided. “But this is not a game of chicken. This is when someone is driving to work and there’s a car coming directly at them in their lane. That’s not a game of chicken — that’s an as*hole causing a head-on collision.”
Delta BSOD 0
Why do I find this disquieting?
I used to say that “if you die and go to hell on Delta, you’ll change at Atlanta.”
Now, you get a bonus wait for a virus scan and defrag.
Droning On 0
Animal rights folks go high-tech:
But factory farmers complained that such whistle-blowers were illegal trespassers who hurt their industry, prompting lawmakers in many states, including Pennsylvania, to introduce “ag-gag laws” to criminalize such activity.
That’s why SHARK’s use of drones and other gadgets that allow them to spy from afar is “brilliant,” Del Gandio said.
Full Disclosure:
The article opens with a mention of the Cowtown Rodeo in New Jersey.
I have been there. We had an exchange student and took her to see it.
Fleabags 2
They were cats.
Now they are fleabags.
They have been on Frontline, but it’s not working.
The vet told us that the possibility that Frontline-resistent fleas may have evolved is currently being researched, as Frontline is over 20 years old.
But evolution can’t happen, can it?
Really, because creationism!
The Galt and the Lamers 0
A commenter on Delaware Liberal sums up government by ideology.
Giving the Finger to the Founders 0
Republicans close Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Contemptible self-centered egomanical jerks.
Be the Death of Me 0
This is just weird.
The law “chills a significant amount of protected speech that does not bear a necessary relationship” to the state’s goal of preventing suicide, a three-judge panel of the court said.
In a footnote, the court said the term “encourages” in the law “plausibly encompasses urging” suicide, but it is “not necessarily” the same as causing someone to commit suicide through “undue influence or distress.” The latter would likely be unprotected speech, the court said.
The story goes on to detail the story of the individual whose suicide led to the case.
Afterthought:
Though I cannot approve of persons who recommend suicide, I do seriously doubt that their recommendations would sway anyone who wasn’t already suicidal.
I can understand that persons who suffer could suffer so much that they see no end to their misery and choose to end it.
I pray God I never face that choice.
I wish to die as my grandfather did.
He went to bed, with his boots off, and never woke up.
My brother (I was five, he was three) went to his house the next morning (it was on the corner of the farm and we used to walk there from time to time) and could not gain entrance.
So my grandfather was found, at the end of his time in his own bed, not wired to beeping machines, with peace and dignity, as a good life should end.
Regulatory Rigmarole 2
Dan Casey tells the story of a lady who needed an oversized toilet seat to fit an oversized toilet marketed under a big box store’s house brand, only to be told by the big box store that they were no longer available because regulations.
Then she contacted one of her state legislators:
Baird later called Vickie back after researching the issue. The Virginia General Assembly has “never, ever voted on the length of a toilet seat,” Vickie said Baird told her.
(snip)
A third (lesson learned–ed.) is that people seem ready and willing to cast blame on “regulations” that probably don’t exist, adopted by a “legislature” that probably doesn’t either. And they don’t even get embarrassed when you call their bluffs.
But that’s not the end of the story of the end. Follow the link for the restroom of the story.
Hostage Note 0
Thom reviews the Republican ransom demands, one by one.
Listen:
A Modest Proposal 0
A letter writer to the Progessive Populist suffered through a diet of NCAA football and came up with a suggestion. A nugget:
Do read the rest.
