A fellow editor in Wikipedia, with whom I disagree politically but whom I've helped over the years and who considers me a friend, posted something in a discussion where I was accused of excessive harshness towards new editors who are clearly there to pimp their company. He notified me of his (favorable) testimony [his term], and wrote, "I hope and ( Read more... )

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Right-wing hoaxster asks Alinsky-tradition organizers to help him form a "union" so they and his boss can shake politicians down for money; is surprised that they don't want to help

Reactionary radio talkshow Rick Amato named this young man his very first "Top Young Con of the Week"! It's clear from context he meant "Con[servative]"; but I hope ( Read more... )

Some especially clueless fans of The Hunger Games are tweeting about how shocked and saddened they are, that dark-skinned characters from the novel are played in the movie by actors who are "black" or mixed-race, rather than just sun-tanned! It seems to have ruined the whole movie for some of these budding racists to see characters they cared ( Read more... )

"Everybody who can be fired for no reason is an 'orange American,'" she said. "Everybody that can be fired for wearing an orange shirt to work should be outraged by this."

Fired Orange Workers Couldn't Speak Over Cubicle Walls?

Today is the birthday of Dan Hoan, Milwaukee's All-American Socialist Mayor.

Wikipedia entry
WorldCat listing of standard biography of Hoan

For the protection of people's 4th-Amendment right to privacy, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need a law making it illegal for employers, potential employers, or schools to demand access to any personal login credentials for any online account; and to make it an illegal form of discrimination to retaliate against employees, students and ( Read more... )

Apparently, they think orange is going to be a fashion color this spring. I don't know whether to be please or appalled, but I notice they only list nine things for men (and 3 "unisex" decor items with some orange in them), compared to 126 for women:
fresh picked: orange

Annuit cœptis indeed! The weather forecast for Madison for this coming Saturday is for warm weather, highs around the low 50s Fahrenheit. This is a pleasant contrast to the snowy weather of a year ago in which we protested the coup which sought to turn Wisconsin into Fitzwalkerstan, as witnessed in this video (among many) scheduled to open the ( Read more... )

But apparently the Koch Brothers have decided that the Cato Institute is displaying too many signs of intellectual integrity, and plan to put a stop to that nonsense right away. The libbies should have heeded the old saying about the Devil and long spoons before taking money from people who despise actual, y'know, libertarianism.
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