For an Angry Black Lady, she sure smiles and laughs a lot: I’ve been informed that I am cranky.
Archives for September 2012
Open Thread: Good for Gail Collins
… Who concisely describes the Republican Party Platform, aka, “Only the Good Get Rich”“: … The big, if-not-quite-articulated, message in Tampa was that in a free economy, everybody will get what they deserve. There is no need to worry about the vast, growing gap between the richest and the rest, or the shrinking middle class, …
About “The Legitimate Children of Rape”
I agree with Kathleen Geier at the Washington Monthly — this is a must read, but probably not in public if you’re easily upset. Andrew Solomon, in the New Yorker, on the pregnancies, and children, resulting from rape: Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have …
He meant go to your other home
So your New Orleans House is flooded. Big deal! Just go to your lake house or your house on the shore and call 211 from there. Who has only one?
Open Thread
Miss Peggy Lee for an open thread, via Dennis SGMM.
She Just Said Joe I Gotta Go
The US Attorney in Phoenix says that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the clear, and of course they dumped it at 5 PM on the Friday of Labor Day weekend. I hadn’t been following the case closely, but that’s a good article from the Arizona Republic listing the different accusations against Arpaio. The whole thing …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: “One Giant Roach Motel”
(Mike Thompson via GoComics.com) __ I know, I know, but it’s a long weekend and the post-con stories will be leaking out until Charlotte gets everyone pumped again. Also, The Stranger‘s Paul Constant is excellent: The Tampa Bay Times Forum is basically one gigantic roach motel. You can get in, but you can’t get out. …
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