Nice going: A Florida judge revoked bond Friday for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. ordered Zimmerman to surrender to the county sheriff within 48 hours. Lester accused Zimmerman of having misrepresented how much money he had when his bond …
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Starving Granny to Feed Lockheed Martin
I got your class warfare right here: A key House committee has voted to cut food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January. The cuts approved by the Republican-controlled panel total more than $300 billion over the coming decade. …
In which I post another diary that boils down to “What He Said”
If you’re not reading the Rude Pundit, well, you’re just missing some of the funniest, most incisive commentary on the correct side of the internet. Some choice excerpts: In re Newt Gingrich ending his “campaign for President”: And so it was that on May 2, 2012, one of the most disgusting, spitting pustules in the …
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Hands, Touching Hands
Reaching Out, Touching Me, Touching You… WTF: Like any state legislature dealing with 8 percent unemployment and thousands of its residents facing disenfranchisement, the Tennessee Senate is targeting the menace of underage hand-holding. Last week, the Senate passed SB 3310, a bill to update the state’s abstinence-based sex education curriculum to define holding hands and …
Late Night Open Thread: There’s A Troll Joke Here Somewhere…
Baboons learn to “pre-read”: WASHINGTON (AP) — Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it’s not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally KITE comes up. __ He pauses and hits a green …
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Late Night Open Thread: Tickling the Geeks
__ __ In honor of Cookie the Penguin, here’s a couple trailers for those of us not too proud to remember where we came from. Thank goddess Facebook didn’t exist during the 1974 NYC Comics Art convention, because even at age 19 I didn’t really have the figure for a home-made “Shanna the She-Devil” costume… …
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You Ladies Will Be Happy To Know
That Gov. Nikki Haley (R- Appalachian Trail) says you don’t care about contraceptives or birth control. So you can scratch that off your list of concerns.