#ShirtGate: the biggest nonissue ever
I wasn't going to post today, but a few things in the nether regions of the Internet caught my eye and I thought I'd take a moment to document this ridiculousness; because there are some forms of rank...
View ArticleJust Another NYPD Day: Shoot First. Kill Immediately. Get Treated for Ear...
Akai Gurley was leaving with his girlfriend from her apartment. Unarmed, and unaware that he was doing anything wrong (he wasn't), he decided the elevator was too slow to arrive, and opened the...
View ArticleThe hole in my soul is the least of it
I grew up in the wake of WWII, was in fact born into a military family smack in the middle of the Korean war, and found myself coming of age on a fast-track trajectory for Vietnam. What a bizarre...
View ArticleBreaking: Officer Will not be Indicted in Eric Garner's Chokehold Death.
Sources: Staten Island grand jury decides not to indict officer in #EricGarner Case. Tune to NY1 for the latest. pic.twitter.com/AMKEShaPDh— NY1 News (@NY1) December 3, 2014A travesty of justice RT...
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Kansas City school punishes blind 8-year-old by replacing cane with pool noodle
8-year-old Dakota Nafzinger reportedly hit someone with his cane on the school bus.North Kansas City School District Spokeswoman Michelle Cronk confirmed taking away Dakota’s cane, calling it school...
View ArticleHawaii Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Case Challenging Marriage...
Yesterday, the Hawaii Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging the validity of the Marriage Equality Act.The suit was filed by Hawaii State Rep. Bob McDermott (R-It's Over You Lost...
View ArticleA New Low. Four Year Old Handcuffed and Shackled at School.
We've seen seven year olds handcuffed, and eight year olds tased. Now, perhaps trying for a world record, Nathan Greene Primary School and a County Sheriff in Virgina managed to handcuff and then...
View ArticlePlaying games with our food again? or still?
The simple sugar fructose has become quite an item in nutrition. Back in the 1980s when I collaborated with a biochemist to make computer models of metabolic pathways we used to chuckle about the...
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The Front Yard "Gun Range" Just Feet From My Neighbor's Kids' Bedroom Window...
This sat 8' from my neighbor's side fence where my kids play. There is no backstop. Behind it another fence and a home immediately behind that. The back wall of the home is direct path should any round...
View ArticleYou know what this anti vaccine and no handwashing is about...?
I have given this some thought and it disgusts me because I think I am spot on.This Rand Paul, and other idiotic power people are saying, We do not need any government regulation whatsoever on...
View ArticleHistory Has Not Been Forgotten
The adage that holds "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" has a critical, inherent limitation. It assumes that whenever history is repeated, the repeat is the result of forgetting the...
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NOM Enters New Level Of Stupidity: Demands Justice Ginsburg Recuse Herself
Less than three hours ago, I wrote that anti-equality activists "will never stop outdoing themselves with their own stupidity."Between that time and now, this headline has appeared on NOM's blog:...
View ArticleKnowing When To Quit
One thing that I find both amusing and frustrating is names of organizations that, when it comes to reflecting what these organizations stand for, could not be further from the truth, and could not...
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Senator James Inhofe disproves climate change by bringing snowball in from...
Jimmy just failed his 3rd grade science exam If you want to know how dumb the position of climate denier is you need go no further than watch Senator James Inhofe, R-OK and chair of the Committee on...
View ArticlePolitics as theater hits a new low
The voters have had their brains scrambled by Tee Vee for years. You have to entertain them to get whatever attention they are capable of paying. So we have evolved into government as theater and...
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Orange County attorney has filed a 'Sodomite Suppression Act' with the...
Even this guy knows that's crazy You can go to snopes if you want but this, sadly, is very true.An Orange County, Calif., attorney has filed a proposed ballot measure with the California Attorney...
View ArticleWhen Will They Ever Learn?
Perhaps Never?Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert EinsteinLady Liberty?She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no succes at...
View ArticleHere Comes The Pain Again, Falling on My Head Like a Ton of Bricks
My apologies to the Eurythmics. I hear this song a lot when my pain starts to build. I am a child of the 80's. I have seen almost every single John Hughes' movies. My personal soundtrack is a mix of...
View ArticleTN House votes to make Bible official state book
Because, why not? Via the Tennessean.Supply side Jesus would, like TN, want to see hundreds of people die needlessly by rejecting Medicaid expansion.This has been your daily dose of Blue...
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Pragmatism, Idealism, And Identity Politics Gone Mad
One of my frustrations with the Left is that some elements within it are dogmatically committed to certain principles, without any regard to how they practically play out when acted upon. I call this...
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