Archive for the 'nincompoopery' Category
Hey Dick Durbin, Shut Up.
After Tony Hayward makes his ridiculous and impossible promise to “clean up every drop of oil”, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois engages in some pointless grandstanding. It starts around the 6-minute mark and goes like this:
BP, in my mind no longer stands for “British Petroleum”: it stands for “Beyond Patience”. People have been waiting 34 [...]
Ben Nelson: the Jokes Write Themselves
Via Susie Madrak, Senator Ben Nelson doesn’t know how to use an ATM. This is a guy who’s a year older than my dad, who DOES know how to use an ATM. He’s also one of the Senators writing financial reform legislation, and doesn’t quite get the problem with having to pay $2.00 [...]
Read More..>>Why Do Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee hate the Arts and Small Businesses?
Reminded by a post at this guy’s place….
Citypaper:
On April 22, City Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee introduced Bill No. 100267, which would encumber event promoters with a slew of new requirements and restrictions. In the words of one promoter, “It’s chilling.”
Under the proposed rules, promoters would have to apply for a permit from the [...]
How to Avoid Blowing Up Your Oil Well
Via Susie, it’s very simple really:
DON’T FUCKING DRILL WHERE THE GOVERNMENT DUMPS UNEXPLODED MINES:
You learn the darnedest things on the internets. For example, I just found out that the Gulf of Mexico is the primary disposal site for unexploded military munitions – over 30 million pounds of bombs, projectiles and chemical ordnance.
And because records are [...]
Wow
The past week was an utter disaster on all fronts, wasn’t it? And it continues this week.
Here are a few quick links before I hit the shower.
Well-known media asshole Dana Milbank notices some blatant conservative hypocrisy (but is no lesss an asshole):
There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more [...]
Thank You, Officer Escobar
Officer Martin Escobar is suing the Arizona state government for violating the civil rights of Latinos:
Officer Martin H. Escobar claims in the suit that the law will “seriously impede law enforcement investigations and facilitate the successful commission of crimes.”
He also says there are no “race-neutral criteria or basis to suspect or identify who is lawfully [...]
Open Letter to the Mann Music Center
The face of shame
Dear Mann Music Center President Catherine Cahill:
Congratulations on this year’s upcoming concert series! Like many Philadelphians, I relish the summer season, when my family and I can enjoy a few evenings of classical music under the stars at Fairmount Park. I’m especially looking forward to opening night, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 [...]
Taking Leave of their Census
Right wingers are fucking idiots. With Erick Erickson, doubly-so:
This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out [...]
health care aftermath
I’ve been pretty busy with work, getting my FAFSA together, and prepping the house for spring/summer, so I haven’t done a lot of blogging recently. in the wake of health insurance reform, however, I wanted to make a few observations.
Although I have some extremely serious problems with the new law, there is one clear [...]
Portrait of the Artist as a Super Hero
As beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules, and swifter than Mercury.
I think this one is pretty fuckin’ awesome.
