Keep hacking away at each other in the NSA thread if you must. Here’s a picture of my dog. She needs grooming.
Open Threads
Monday Evening Open Thread: SF
Bureacratic logic of the security state does seem to resemble Asimov's Three Laws – and, like them, leads to logical conclusion…(1) — billmon (@billmon1) December 16, 2013 …that freedom, like privacy, is inconsistant with the prime directive to protect the civilian population from harm. (2) — billmon (@billmon1) December 16, 2013 Mandatory reference: Jack Williamson’s …
They call her Natasha
This is good stuff too (via): It was once not uncommon in ‘captive’ communist satellite nations (subjugated to the USSR) to give your child a Russian name, mostly to show support for the Soviet system and provide them a leg-up in the commie world. But how many (esp black) Americans do YOU know with a …
And all through my coffee break time
I’m very busy this week, and when I get busy, I like to relax by reading about crazy things that wingers are doing. Like this: LUMAYE (a wingnut radio host): Let me just — to give an example just what the government can’t do — and I didn’t know this, I just found this out. …
Christmas Cookies (Open Thread)
A small portion of this weekend’s production: The ugliest ones are the tastiest (coconut macaroons and buckeyes). Life lesson there? Probably not! PS: My chickens were squawking their heads off, so I went outside to see what they were on about a little while ago. I was standing there saying, “What the hell are you …
Monday Morning Open Thread: First Truth, Then Reconciliation
(Joel Pett via GoComics.com) . Shamus Khan, in the NYTimes, explains that actually “We Are Not All in This Together”: … In the postwar period the rich found themselves in a quandary. Their wages and their membership were static. They needed to resuscitate themselves. This required allies who shared a basic concern. The rich thought, …
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Overwrought analogy supplies running dangerously low
North Carolina State Senator Bob Rucho (guess) does not like Obamacare. Never having embedded tweets, I will just paste the text here. Justice Robert’s pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis,Soviets & terrorists combined. 7:41 AM – 15 Dec 2013 Welp, that pretty much covers the …
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