August, 2015 archive
Cut from the Same Mold 0
Jessica Valenti reflects on the Republican debate and points out that, when it comes to Republicans, watch what they do, not what they say.
For one glorious moment in time, this group of men – who between them have enacted legislation curbing women’s rights, voted against equal pay, and shamed women for having sex – can puff up their chests and play make-believe that they are women’s caped crusaders and true equality warriors.
But at least Donald Trump is upfront about his sexism. The other candidates are just blowing smoke up our … skirts.
“The Tokens of Virginity” 0
Apparently Deuteronomy 22:17 is all the rage at Virginia Wesleyan College (which is, by the way, about two miles down the road thataway).
Virginia Wesleyan College wants the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” to name any individual she has had sexual intercourse with “at any time” and provide them with names of all her boyfriends since August 2012, when she was allegedly raped by a male classmate.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
Rayne Michelle-Marie Dettmann was shot in the upper body by the 16-year-old boy about 4:30 a.m. with a 12 gauge shotgun at her Pomona Park home. The boy had retrieved the shotgun from inside her home and first pointed it at two other friends. He then pointed it at her and pulled the trigger, deputies said.
Lake Effect 0
America’s edifice complex is killing Minnesota’s lakes. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
A similar fate awaits the heart of lake country — the thousands of recreational lakes clustered around Brainerd, Detroit Lakes and Alexandria in central Minnesota. It’s not the crush of shoreline development by itself that’s killing them; it’s the reckless way in which development has been allowed to proceed
Details at the link.
Scrooged America 0
Warning: Language.
Headline of the Day 0
No, it’s not more tragedy in Africa.
It was a two-door sudan. Here’s the screengrab:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite mail it in.
While in route to Connecticut, the package arrived at a processing and distribution center in Springfield, Massachusetts. When a U.S. Postal Service employee picked up the package, the gun discharged. The employee was not seriously injured, but sought medical attention for ringing ears and stinging hands.
Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .
Via Southern Beale.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
The California experiment continues to shrivel in the sun.
But something was missing: the river.
The river that runs through America’s 10th-largest city has dried up, shriveling a source of civic pride that had welcomed back trout, salmon, beavers and other wildlife after years of restoration efforts. Over the past two months, large sections of the Guadalupe have become miles of cracked, arid gray riverbed. Fish and other wildlife are either missing or dead, casualties of California’s relentless drought.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
God forbid that they should relinquish their emblem of treason heritage.
More rising again at the link.
World-Nut Daily Sees the Fright . . . 0
. . . and reports on the fly-by in the ointment.
Discovering How To Lose Friends and Influence People 0
I reckon that Discover Card’s current internet ad campaign, in which they cover up your browser window for a few seconds, is supposed to get attention.
It’s got mine. If I still* had a Discover Card, I’d cancel it immediately, cut it up in little pieces, and mail it back to them postage-due.
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*Had one once. Got rid of it long ago.