March, 2015 archive
Pretzel Logic, Reprise (Updated) 0
In Republican World, a law that allows persons to discriminate is not about discrimination, because pretzels.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
PoliticalProf has a question.
It’s Time To Grow Up 1
One thing that irritates me most about my fellow lefties is the purists, the “so-and-so did not agree with me on my one little issue so I will start a third party/not vote/cut the soles out of my shoes and learn to live in a tree and play the flute” types.
Real life is not pure.
You have to live and vote in the real world. If you don’t, you are an idiot.
You may be a pure idiot, but you are still an idiot.
Attaining pure idiocy is less than an optimal life choice.
Projection Is a Not Just a Psychological Concept 0
It is something that people do so as not to face up to their own rotten selves.
The Last Round-Up 0
Heh.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Reg Henry finds the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ suit to compel Texas to allow them to display the flag of the secesh on their Texas license plates to be less than salutary.
Do follow the link and read the rest.
Blood Lust 0
In The Guardian, Ed Pilkington ruminates on the rationale for Utah’s return to the firing squad and America’s fascination with the death penalty.
Just read it.
“He Must Be High on Something, Someone Said” 0
The lust of the media to make make up myths about kids’ getting high on weird stuff that no one is actually getting high on mystifies many.
Pot Luck 0
Heh.
(snip)
The victim’s 17-year-old daughter told cops that she left the brownies out because she did not think anyone in her family would touch them (the girl was apparently unaware of the deep affinity middle-age men have to such unattended sweets).
Back in my younger days, I had one guiding principle: Don’t do something stupid and you won’t get caught.
Kids.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
NRA paradise comes to the home.
“We keep the keys put up on top of the fridge but he went up and got them.”
The toddler was shot once in the head inside a residence on Bon Jan Lane, according to Highland Heights police. Police have not said who they believed fired the shot. They did confirm that the mother and a 5-year-old boy were in the house when the girl was shot.
Redistribution of Wealth 0
Paul Krugman looks for a reason for the fanciful Republican budget proposals. A snippet (emphasis added):
But I’m partial to a more cynical explanation. Think about what these budgets would do if you ignore the mysterious trillions in unspecified spending cuts and revenue enhancements. What you’re left with is huge transfers of income from the poor and the working class, who would see severe benefit cuts, to the rich, who would see big tax cuts. And the simplest way to understand these budgets is surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact, actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer.
