Is There A Darwin Award for Hypocrisy?
I have a very strong opinion about the government showdown and harbor some particularly ill will toward Republitarians (high RWA Republicans). Robert Altemeyer, a psychologist who studied...
View ArticleInteresting deconstruction of Obama's NSA speech
There's an article with the title "Those NSA 'reforms' in full: El Reg translates US Prez Obama's pledges" on today's Register. The subtitle says it all: "Filleting fact from fiction."Here's what it's...
View ArticleCould It Be True? Tree-huggers at the National Review?!?!?
I don't know how I ended up there, but I just stumbled onto this: National Review article "Obama's Earth Day Travels Will Generate 868 Tons of Carbon."There really wasn't any point to the article...
View ArticleRewriting "Deliverance"
If James Dickey were to write the screenplay for "Deliverance" today, the "squeal like a pig" scene would have turned out completely differently. Today, the governor of Georgia signed House Bill 60...
View ArticleThe Perfect Troll
In today's Washington Post there is an article in the Style blog by Caitlin Dewey by the title of "'I will get the people to buy into my works just to rip their hearts out.' A Q&A with a...
View ArticleThere's Some Information In There, Somewhere
I was banging around the Interwebs earlier this evening and I stumbled on this column on the Huffington Post: Megyn Kelly Battles Joe ScarboroughUnder other circumstances, I would not have followed the...
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By the Book
Russia is raising the stakes in eastern Ukraine. In the past couple of weeks we've seen: - August 14: An "aid" convoy from Russia, which included military vehicles . . . which proceeded into the...
View ArticleNew Orleans LEAs Get Snow Camo From USG
Yes, it's true. New Orleans did get 20 snow camouflage parkas in their latest tranche of goodies from the DoD. They also got a "rough terrain" forklift, 21 7.62 mm rifles (probably M4s . . . probably...
View ArticleThe GOP clown show, Hillary’s challenge, and our dangerously frozen democracy
That is the title of one of the best articles on the current state of national politics. He takes on the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as well as the usual suspects, Boehner, McConnel and...
View ArticleMemo to all Texans who are in a panic about Jade Helm 15
Don't panic.There is nothing in Texas that is of any interest to anyone else in the Universe. You people take solipsism to a whole new level. You have nothing to fear from the Constructor Fleet. It has...
View ArticleUS declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political...
Atheists, peaceful protesters and those who go to fight abroad have all been brought under the auspices of new "anti-terror" laws.Note: The original of this story is an article on The Independent...
View ArticleJust think Kansas and North Carolina
Disclaimer: I am a resident of North Carolina, so there may be a bit of Chicken Little in what I am about to say . . .For the next two years at least, the Republican Party will have control of all...
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