Twelve years of primary education at the hands of the Dominican sisterhood left me with a permanent tic against explicit vulgarity, but sometimes the truth can only be expressed rudely. Only an arsehole Media Village Idiot could have written “Barney the Bully“: … The amiable [Savannah] Guthrie tried again. How does he feel about the …
Archives for November 2011
Open Thread
I feel like everything I write today is rambling and incoherent, more so than usual, so I am just going to sit back and watch the idiot box until Captain Kirk hangs out with Shawn and Guster tonight on Psych.
Hard Working White Americans Hard at Work Making Life Miserable for Minorities
I’m cursing whoever brought up that damned phrase from election 2008 (I think it was Kay), but I think it is important to remember what was so god damned offensive about the phrase- the Clinton statements were made right before the primaries through a swath of Appalachia that included places like this: A small Pike …
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Policing Our Discourse
DougJ, Atrios, and Glenzilla have already said a lot about the sad spectacle of our establishment media rushing for the fainting couches when someone says fuck or is rude to someone in a position of power, but not batting an eye when someone like Tom Friedman says one of the reasons we went to Iraq …
Siri and Apple: Abortion Madness
Really? can’t we all get a grip? Look, I’m all for equality, and I’m as pro-choice as a woman can be. But this kerfuffle over Siri not providing abortion locations to iPhone 4s is a serious mountain/mole-hill situation. Apparently, Apple has been catching flak from pro-choice advocates because Siri does not provide information (or fails …
Just Rope and Throw and Grab ‘Em
Soon we’ll be living high and wide: Patrick Sullivan was the kind of lawman Coloradoans loved: a straight-shooting, Republican sheriff who once crashed a Jeep through a fence to rescue two deputies from a deranged gun-toting man and pleaded with legislators to keep assault weapons off the street lest any more citizens get shot. On …
That long black cloud is coming down
I think that reports of Mitt’s demise may be exaggerated (I just like the song this title comes from), but he’s 30 points down in Florida, is a piss-poor interviewee, and will eventually start getting hammered for Romneycare (saying that avoiding paying insurance is “not American” can’t go over well with the Teahadists). I can’t …