Archive for February, 2011
To My Readers
When you find that blogging’s slowed down here, it’s often a good idea to drop by my facebook page (it’s easy to find me, there’s aren’t too many other people named Brendan Skwire) if we’re not already friends there. I’ve found that facebook can be really powerful when it comes to generating debates and [...]
Read More..>>Elusive
Wisconsin
If you need ME to tell you to pay attention to the protests in Wisconsin, you are truly benighted. However, I highly recommend these two articles linked by Susie.
Meanwhile, a recall effort is underway targeting 8 Wisonsin Republicans: they can’t recall Walker til January, but you can bet that’s in the planning stages.
Go get ‘em, [...]
An Even More Modest Proposal
Earlier this week, Democratic strategist Paul Begala offered a modest proposal for dealing with the deficit:
While Rogers was once dubbed the “Prince of Pork” and McConnell has hauled so much pork he’s at risk for trichinosis, they are now converts to Sen. Paul’s anti-government gospel. McConnell says President Obama’s new budget is “unserious” and [...]
Government Shutdown Looms
Fluffington Post:
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) upped the odds of a government shutdown Thursday, saying he would not support a short-term funding bill if his near-certain budget battle between the House and the Democratic-run Senate takes longer than two weeks.
As the clock ticks down to March 4, when the current stopgap funding measure [...]
WI Governor Scott Walker is a Liar
Pinocchio: like Scott Walker, a puppet and a liar
MADISON, Wis. — Debate in the State Senate over Wisconsin’s controversial bill to cut collective bargaining rights for public workers ended, at least temporarily, on Thursday morning before it began. As the session was due to begin, Democrats failed to appear in the chamber, leaving the body [...]
Not Up to It Today
The sheer viciousness of what’s going on in the US today prevents me from blogging.
So i will make this short and brief: there is a metric fuck-ton of people who simply need to be hauled out and shot. 99% of them are right-wingers and republicans. No one would miss them if they were [...]
Pro-Lifers are Stupid and Short-Sighted
Morons:
A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and [...]
Really Weird Rockabilly
Henry Thome, “Wolf Bait”
Art Kilmer, “Devil’s Twist”
Boliver Shagnasty, “Tappin’ That Thing” (yeah, this one’s pretty filthy: “it’s a little round thing, all covered with fuzz/ best damn stuff that there ever was”)
Read More..>>Extorting Sick People
This piece, via Susie really hit home for me.
Over the weekend, we Tarts learned the shocking news that one of our most loyal backbloggers and friends, Melissa Mia Hall, aka MMH, had died suddenly and somewhat mysteriously.
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And then we learned the truth which turned out to be far worse, far more humbling, than our conjecture. [...]
