Dan Savage should be proud.
Also – little known fact. Did you know John has a thing for bad movie reviews? On a scale of zero to Battlefield Earth, the linked review of Pandorum scores roughly a Kingdom of Heaven.
Archives for 2009
Indoctrinating The Kids
Call me crazy, but making a bunch of elementary schoolers sing about the President sounds pretty weird. Does anyone have any particular insight into how this seemed like a reasonable idea? This doesn’t seem like something I would cross school disctrict boundaries to yell at someone about, but it does seem like a great way to set up a bunch of kids for future disappointment. When those kids find out what the word ‘politician’ means (compromise, empty rhetoric and undisclosed conflicts of interest) they will be pissed at their teacher for setting their expectations so high.
So there’s my outrage. Now let’s hear some outrage about this.
Maybe it’s the liberal in me speaking, but jesus christ. Ech.
Home Crap Home
Made it back in one piece, Sam and Lily said their goodbyes, and now back at Balloon Juice HQ:
According to Tammy, Lily was awful the whole time I was gone. Mean to Sam, took over Sam’s bed, and ran off twice, forcing Tammy to run around in the rain. Lily was happy to see me, though.
Give ’em enough thread
Looks like all the posters have gone Galt this weekend.
Malkin is at it again
I wonder if we will find out what kinds of countertops these kids have.
Honestly, the level of sociopathy among the wingers stuns me. Death threats against children, fantasies about beating up children on the subway….family values, I guess.
Saturday Open Thread
Tammy sends along this pic from the dog slumber party last night:
Apparently everyone else is away, too, so I thought I would throw up an all-purpose open thread before I am occupied for the day. If anything interesting happens, fill us in. Also, college football.
BTW- the lexicon still has definitions that need to be filled out, as well as some of the definitions need to be cleaned up a little bit. We need an example for rebunking, and some of the entries need sourcing.
Also, if there are any glaring omissions, chuck them in here.
Death Panels in America
Here:
Uninsured dialysis patients who could be cut off from their life-sustaining care lost a court challenge on Friday when a judge ruled that Grady Memorial Hospital could close its outpatient dialysis clinic. But the hospital gave the patients a temporary reprieve.
Ruling largely on technical grounds, a state court judge dissolved the restraining order that prevented last weekend’s scheduled closing of the clinic at Grady, the Atlanta region’s safety net hospital. The hospital, which is deeply in debt, quickly announced it would close the clinic within a week. It agreed, however, to pay for up to three months of dialysis at private clinics for the 51 patients who will be dislocated.
The simple refusal to admit that we already ration care in the United States is maddening. We ration all the time- poor people don’t get it, or if they do, it is in the most costly and inefficient way possible.