2017 archive
A Picture Is Worth 0
How Republicans want to cut the health care pie:
Click for the original images published by Paul Krugman.
Via The Daily Banter.
The Snaring Economy 0
The Tampa Bay Times’s John Romano has had it with Uber.
The New Doomsday Book 0
Meanwhile, Dick Polman argues convincingly that the Kock Brothers and their cronies are pulling Mitch McConnell’s strings.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
The Trojan Hearse 0
In The Des Moines Register, Reka Basu skewers the duplicity of Trumpcare. A snippet:
If curtailing health-care access for many Americans to fatten the rich is what lawmakers want, they should say so. But that would cost them votes.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is child’s play.
Police said the boy, identified by the Marion County coroner’s office as Mykah Jackson, and his friend found the unsecured gun Monday night at an apartment complex on the city’s north side and were playing with it when it accidentally fired, striking the boy in the face.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Paradise of a Plethora Portable Penises.
Stray Question 0
What bright light decided that mattresses didn’t need to have handles? (He asked after flipping a queen-sized mattress.)
A Trap, Not a Trade 0
In The Roanoke Times, Ginger Daken reminds us that, despite what Republicans would have you believe (remember Reagan’s “welfare queen“), poverty is not a career choice.
Immunity Impunity
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Elie Mystal comments on the Supreme Court’s refusal to review law enforcement’s license to kill.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice makes polite.
State police announced the range closure Monday following an investigation that began in April when Kristen Burke of Hampton reported that a bullet had struck her windshield while she was traveling westbound between Exits 7 and 8.