Note: What with Donald Trump behaving like David Duke and the many terrible tornado deaths, I feel a little guilty joking about anything. However, as some fine young women once sang “Some Days You Gotta Dance”. On with the badinage. 9.52am BST – Well, my little carbuncles, I’m finally seated in the Abbey …
Archives for April 2011
It should be an awkward night at the Washington Post table…
The video that ABL posted earlier should fill us all with shame–as the man said it is 2011. And yet, we are still dealing with this crap. The old racism is moving out of the shadows. A lot of white folks are embracing a variety of codes that basically just call the President of the …
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Tornado Hell
The NYTimes is front-paging a raft of heart-stopping pictures, stories and video from last night’s record-setting barrage of tornadoes: Tuscaloosa — At least 285 people across six states died in the storms, with more than half — 195 people — in Alabama. This good-time college town, the home of the University of Alabama, has in …
Feel the Moonmentum
I don’t have the energy to keep track of all the principled, intellectually honest responses to that second-rate forgery the White House presented yesterday, but other people are on the job. Steve M. finds the Washington Times posing the kind of bracing questions that serious journalists too seldom ask: Mr. Obama’s hostility to openness drives …
Kids these days
The first person who complained about the bad habits and low standards of schoolkids probably wrote it down in cuneiform. All the same you can appreciate how manning the front lines can drive a serious instructor like Thoreau to distraction and whatever comes after that. If it will make him feel better, Chinese is not …
Oh Shit, The NFL DRAFT
Completely forgot. Racing around the house picking up because I have company coming in tonight and they weren’t supposed to be here until tomorrow.
The Divide
I’m glad ABL posted that video today. I really don’t think many people appreciate how under assault the black community has felt since Obama was elected. A time of celebration, that of the first black President, through the sheer nastiness of a segment of our population and amplified by their accomplices in the media, has …