Here are a couple of items that my Internet Service Person (ISP) was kind enough to use their freedom of speech to deliver to me, and now I beg their forbearance to share them with you:
* One of the Democrats in the Wisconsin State Senate has a bad case of hurt fee-fees and he won’t be caucusing with the Democrats anymore. He’s going to be an Independent. I think we need to send the CDC to Wisconsin to check the air conditioning system for Libermanaires’ disease, which strikes only the dullest and most useless Democrats, invading their frontal cortex and forcing them to seek attention at any cost. The only cure is a successful primary challenge. Thanks to reader SMH for informing us of this tragic outbreak using his ISP’s personal autonomy.
* SteveM finds the latest stupidity on the Aurora shootings: the shooter got a NIH grant. It’s almost like the government paid him to kill. Reader JK’s ISP was kind enough to allow him to send that in.
* The filmmakers of this soon-to-be cult classic, which documents Bobby Jindal’s exorcism of a fellow student, claim that it’s the first use of WATB in film. I don’t know about that, but I did like the poster (click to embiggen).
Xenos
Listening to Shartock’s show on WAMC lately?
I am trying to remember which one has that ‘write myself a letter’ segment… but it has been years since I have heard it.
mistermix
@Xenos: No, but you can make believe it came from there.
Steve
You can laugh at the NIH story if you like, but two wingnuts I know are already calling it “Fast and Furious, Colorado-style.” My brain hurts.
erops
The NIH grant isn’t a sign of anything but his intelligence and academic success. Shaming a funding agency this way is like reading a few abstracts (or dissertation titles) and blaming a whole field.
Xenos
@mistermix: Thin skin today? I did not mean to insult you by suggesting you listen to Alan Chartock. Although I did once catch a half hour of “Mario and Me” that nearly killed me.
El Cid
GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE GUBMIT GRANTS KILL PEOPLE
arguingwithsignposts
Is that yours, mm? If so, kudos. heh.
giltay
@El Cid: I heard almost the same thing from the mayor of Toronto’s policy advisor, in the context of public social programmes vs private charity. These people really believe this (or really want us to believe that they believe this).
mds
Putting it this way makes him seem like a total cobag, but perhaps more context will show it’s not that simple:
…Okay, no, still just a cobag.
kerFuFFler
@mistermix: I see what you did there—-finally a reference to music old enough for me to recognize!
kerFuFFler
@erops: Yeah, it kind of reminds me of the NSF porn scandal from a couple years back.
kideni
@mds: Cullen is indeed being a baby. He wanted to be in charge of the Health Services Committee, but since he was a health insurance exec for twenty years and has been clear in his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, I’m glad the majority leader said no. He was offered the chairmanship of the Small Business and Tourism Committee, which isn’t a terribly powerful committee but nonetheless does important work, but he said that if he didn’t get what he wanted, he didn’t want any chair. So he got nothing. Now he’s pouting.
In the long run, this doesn’t make a difference because he’ll still align with Democrats; a Republican senator has left to be part of the Walker administration, so one of their seats is open; and the senate’s not in session until after the next election (unless Walker asks for a special session, which the Democrats would like to have to work on jobs legislation).
Barry
How do I get a copy of this poster? It’s teh AWESOME!