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Something to Totally Not Complain About
(h/t to ms-daisy-cutter)
The Senate has passed a bill authorizing the repeal of the "Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell" policy. Votes were 65 "aye" to fuck whoever voted against it. Actually, the vote was for cloture, to end a Republican-led filibuster of the bill. They've also got 60 days to fuck it up by getting enough brass at the Pentagon to cry loudly enough that there ( Read more... ) -
All of the Post-Election Analysis You Will Ever Need (Part 1)
As naturally as night follows day, as hagfish swim, as vultures fly, the Election Night hypestravaganza gives way to weeks of post-election pontification and navel-gazing. Fortunately for you, I have already found all of the information that is necessary to know about what happened this past Tuesday, in no less than two (2) articles written by more ( Read more... ) -
Because Memories Are Short
This country is in a terrible place. We are in a terrible place. This election season, take a few minutes to remember how we got here.
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We Start the Pogrom at Ground Zero
I've really tried hard not to pay attention as, lately, each successive day has provided an increasinly stupefying and absurd assault on my sensibilities. Yesterday, Glenn Beck was Martin Luther King. Today, he is Malcolm X. Yeah. Seriously. People actually proposed those arguments with a straight face, and then wrote them down and published them. ( Read more... ) -
Who Misplaced My Outrage?
From my "Things That Can't Get Repeated Enough" file, a transcript of a screenshot of an anonymous entry posted on some other forum. Because some people have got the worst sense of perspective.
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.You didn't get mad when Cheny allowed Energy company officials ( Read more... ) -
Joe Lieberman, You Can Choke on the Bones of Jacqueline Kelly as They're Crammed Down Your Throat
Almost all of my recent posts have been excerpts from better efforts, along with a link and entreaty to "just go read." I'm pretty sure I've never quoted an entire article before. Today, between rage and disappointment and shame at the dissipated, wasted pretense to empire that the country I once swore an oath to protect and defend has become, I ( Read more... ) -
I Can't Make Sense Of It Either
One of many unseemly bumps in the otherwise smooth and ordered debate over health care reform has been the recent release/leak of a petulant threat scientific report from the American Health Insurance Providers. This document outlines what can only be charitably described as a worst-case scenario, a calamity that will befall us should the insurance ( Read more... ) -
Remaindered Discourse
… in which, once again, I make up a post almost entirely of stuff I borrowed from other people's more worthy efforts.
First, some proud participants in the national discourse on Health Care Reform (h/t jblaque):
They really can't help themselves. It's how they're programmed. The talking points get broadcast, and then they get repeated. When "Show Us the ( Read more... )
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