Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
This might have been helpful to have a week ago
I agree with ABL that Obama did good, but as I said earlier, I would have been grateful to him for trying had he failed. I listened to the debate closely, and I’m still convinced there was one person in this who was looking out for my interests, and oddly enough, it was the President. [...]
February 10, 2012
· 
Kay · 
64 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Women’s health as political football: the game goes on without us
I understand President Obama is going to announce an “accommodation” to the demands of the Catholic Church and media regarding US health care. I’ll wait and see what he says, and if I have time today I’ll try to figure out how this accommodation might affect me and mine. I don’t know that I’ll be [...]
February 10, 2012
· Kay · 248 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
More to this than we were told
I wrote yesterday that the issue for me with the health law rules that govern large employers, is, well, large employers. The health care law is complicated, and the pieces fit together. The regulations pertaining to large employers are crucial if this thing is going to work, and that’s particularly true for low wage employers, [...]
February 9, 2012
· Kay · 93 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Yes, Mittens really is an awful, awful politician
The reaction to the Marquis de Mitten’s* line about the very poor provides interesting insights into the difference in how Republicans and Democrats process information: “I’m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney told CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, [...]
February 2, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 80 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
None Dare Call It Murder
I’ve got just one quick note to add to the discussion of the Komen Foundation’s surrender to Greater Wingnuttia and the Global War on Women. That would be that this decision is not just about the dollars. It’s genuinely a matter of life and death —of murder, really, with only the anonymity of the victims to [...]
February 1, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 242 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized, Vagina Outrage, Where's my Moore Award?, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
Program Notes: Alan Lightman and Me Edition
A bit more self-aggrandizement, for which I apologize, but I thought (hoped) y’all might want to know about the conversation I’m going to have with Alan Lightman this afternoon. It will be on the occasion of the publication (yesterday!) of Alan’s latest book, Mr. g: A Novel About The Creation. This is my monthly Virtually [...]
January 25, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 13 Comments
Posted in: Books, KULCHA!, Science and Technology, Uncategorized
Deep Thought
Apropos of Angry DougJ’s post below, am I alone in thinking that the obese amphibian gum disease’s constant invocation of Saul Alinsky is the second half of that rare and difficult manouver, the double dogwhistle? I mean, the basically unhidden message within the Food Stamp President garbage is obvious enough. And throw in that Saaaaauuuul [...]
January 24, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 133 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Good news for Evan Bayh
I disagree with mistermix on this one: Listening to this, I’m struck by one thing: if Newt is the candidate, he’s going to drive the discussion into all the nooks and crannies of noise and diversion that have occupied Fox News viewers since Obama’s victory. In other words, Newt is the candidate of the 2009 [...]
January 22, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 87 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley, Uncategorized
Open Thread
In news from around the web: Taliban say peace talks not harmed by video of urinating Marines Outgoing Haley Barbour stirs up a shit storm by pardoning a bunch of violent felons Comcast admits that SOPA would make the intertubes less secure, not more PC shipments are down 6%, while Apple increased its market share [...]
January 12, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 91 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Uncategorized
It’s all fun and games until someone skips a mortgage payment
I did catch part of the republican debate last night. Very interesting in a make me want to shoot my TV kind of way. Also watched my beloved Broncos beat the Steelers last night. The only thing I have to say about that was that if Tim Tebow were as a good a Quarterback as [...]
January 9, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 180 Comments
Posted in: Fucksaw, Gamer Dork, Uncategorized
Greenwald: A Bridge Too Far [Updated]
John, I’m stunned that you continue to think Greenwald was using the remark as a metaphor or hyperbole. He expressly stated that he was not: And perhaps you were not “laughing” at rape survivors, but you were mocking them in a public forum where women (including asiangrrlMN) were revealing their experiences with rape and that [...]
January 3, 2012
· ABL 2.0 · 344 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Not at all the same thing
This is Ron Paul, today, on the Civil Rights Act and how Paul views the Civil Rights Act as leading to the Patriot Act: Despite recent accusations of racism and homophobia, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) stuck to his libertarian principles on Sunday, criticizing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it [...]
January 2, 2012
· Kay · 188 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
An Important Birthday Today, I Hear…
...of a fatherless boy,¹ so precariously brought into this world that as his mother lay on her birthing bed, it seemed unlikely so ill-conceived a child could live.² But he did, and as his contemporaries bore witness, he would fashion miracles in their season. As proclaimed by one of those who spread the good news—that [...]
December 25, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 19 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Uncategorized
Good poll for Obama
It’s way early, but I like this poll, so let’s look at it. Don’t tell me the only poll that matters is the one on election day, because, well, I know that: According to the survey, 49% of Americans approve of the job Obama’s doing in the White House, up five points from last month, [...]
December 20, 2011
· Kay · 80 Comments
Posted in: Uncategorized
Because I am a Kind Man…
...and wish only the best for you all, may I present the Honorable Rick Perry, Governor of the Great (Secessionist) State of Texas, tragically mistaken in his quest for the nearest ZZ Top venue. (The really good stuff starts around 4:45) My thanks to Marc Abrahams, best known as the impresario of the IgNobels and [...]
December 12, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 74 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Rick Perry Presents "Rick Perry", Uncategorized
