Archive for January, 2007
Biden Buffoonery
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Joe Biden, on Barack Obama.
For your review, and in the interest of public service, I present a gallery of those other non-mainstream African Americans who are inarticulate, stupid, filthy, and ugly-looking that Joe Biden’s referring to. [...]
Read More..>>Biden, and An Answer to Crablaw
Commenting at TPM, Crablaw writes, “Are Duncan Black and I the only people in the more-or-less=left blogosphere who find Biden’s condescending use of the infamous patronizing cliche “articulate” highly offensive with respect to an African-American?
No. You can count me among the offended, especially considering I caught myself using the exact same word back [...]
A Message from VoteVets.org
Read More..>>New Haven Story
I worked with this woman in New Haven named Rosemary Hernandez. She was a pudgy little person, fifteen years older than me with a booming voice that cut the air like an SST. She wore her hair up with a lot of hairspray, and had eyes that seemed to bug out of her [...]
Read More..>>Roar of the Paper Tiger
Grrr! Arlen Specter’s fired up!
WASHINGTON – A Senate Republican on Tuesday directly challenged
President Bush’s declaration that “I am the decision-maker” on issues of war.
“I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider,” Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said during a hearing on Congress’ war powers amid an increasingly harsh debate [...]
Open Note to My Bridgeport PA Visitor
Hey buddy,
I’m glad you like the blog, but could you please remove your bot, or whatever it is that accounts for more than 50% of the visits here? Put me on your rss feed or something if you like my writing that much.
Seriously, your software drops by every ten seconds or so. [...]
Overreaching and Intrusive
From my brother Ray, posting at dailykos.
The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the [...]
Go Horse Go!
One of Paul Edelman’s funnier stories took place as he sat in some shitty bar in South Philadelphia last summer next to some decrepit drunk woman, who nudged him with her elbow as she talked to the television. “All of Philadelphia’s sports teams are in the shitter this year,” she said. “The Eagles, the [...]
Read More..>>Inconvenient Truth/ The Caine Mutiny
I saw An Inconvenient Truth this weekend, followed by The Caine Mutiny.
AIC was good, but not as remarkable as I’d expected: perhaps because I have a background in the environmental movement, I’ve been well aware of the disasters Gore warns out about since the 1990s. We called that decade the “make it or break [...]
It’s Law Suit Time
TAMPA – First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed – for two nights and two days.
A jail worker with religious objections blocked her from ingesting a morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy, her attorney says, keeping her from taking the required second dose for more than 24 [...]
