March 2010
66 posts
An Open Letter to Persecuted American Christians →
jjarichardson:
everythingunbroken:
savagemike:
azspot:
Christianity is the dominant religion in America. Most Americans are Christians of one stripe or another. Oh, plenty of you complain about atheists picking on you with our books and our blogs and our criticisms of your belief. Plenty of you cry foul when atheists make our presence known in some way or another, as if our mere existence...
“Getting More Followers and Fans: Unless you can tell me what the hell they’re...”
– Social Media Topics that Need To Die
This is everything that’s wrong with how most companies use facebook and twitter. This also seems like something Peter would say. (via foureleven)
File Under Vile - Paul Krugman Blog →
OK, I finally got around to reading Douglas Holtz-Eakin’s op-ed on health care reform. It’s much worse than I thought; time to scratch Holtz-Eakin off my shrinking list of reasonable, reasonably honest conservatives…
Open Thread: Shorter Health Care Debate | Crooks... →
Courtesy of my friend Tracey, who enjoys the fine Canadian health system and wonders about all the lies told to Americans:
Democrats: “We need health care reform”
Republicans: “Liberal fascists! Give us a majority and we’ll do it better”
Democrats: “Done, you have majority of both houses”
12 years later, health care is irrefutably worse in every...
“…Democrats just passed the Republican health care reform plan — without a single...”
– daggatt (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
ughhhhh (via stfuconservatives)
“For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not...”
– Paul Krugman
“In a rape culture, women are assumed to be public property. Rape culture never...”
– Amanda Marcotte, “Just ‘cause Jesus is involved doesn’t make it not rape culture”
for personal reference, for life (via smart-tart)
“[Former militiaman Mike Vanderboegh] said his call for people to throw bricks is...”
– Former militiaman unapologetic for calls to vandalize offices over health care (via datn)
“Senator McCain’s promised obstruction comes to reality just a day later. “The...”
– Statement from Sen. Harry Reid’s Office, Think Progress » Protesting Health Reform, GOP Attempts To Bring Senate Hearings To A Standstill By Blocking All Proceedings (via robot-heart-politics) (via asprettyasasong)
Iggy Pop Officially Retires From Stage Diving |... →
shadowfirebird:
’[…] made one of his famous leaps at a show in Carnegie Hall last month, and the unusually staid crowd simply stood aside and led the man once crowned “The Idiot” slam right into the ground.
“When I landed it hurt and I made a mental note that Carnegie Hall would be a good place for my last stage dive. The audience were just like, ‘What are you doing?’” ‘
Via The Morning...
An open letter to conservatives →
First, the invitation: Come back to us. Now the advice. You’re going to have to come up with a platform that isn’t built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into...
“Only in America do working class people rise up in anger at the thought of...”
– Obsidian Wings (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
“Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative...”
– “Waterloo,” FrumForum
This is the only thoughtful, sensible article that I’ve seen from the Right on health care.
“Look, I’m puzzled, and if there are any libertarians, neoconservatives,...”
– David Horton (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via giftedboi)
“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our...”
– Martin Luther King.
When I read some of the stupid being spouted by the Right, it helps me to remember that.
Let's schedule the going away party!
So, when will Rush be going to Costa Rica?
“We’ve got the best health system in the world and we’re about to take this very...”
– John Boehner (via starsgowaltzing)
This is why I can’t bring myself to watch.
(via ctrain)
Why is it so hard for so many people to understand that y’all don’t have the best health SYSTEM in the world, but some of the best private care in the world, but that this care is only reserved for a very...
“They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that...”
– Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to Glenn Beck, regarding the Sunday vote on Health Care.
I think at this point it’s safe to say that King is the stupidest man in Congress. (Beck, of course, agreed, saying, “This is an affront to God.”)
Ah, I see...
… I lost a follower, undoubtedly because I used the actual slur instead of “the N-word” in a headline I posted. I figured that would happen, and so be it.
For the record, as I really shouldn’t have to explain: I don’t usually use racial slurs. In this case, I posted the actual word because I thought it was important to spell out exactly the ugly rhetoric the Tea...
Daily Kos: GOP Reprises Role as Backward,... →
“Here’s a re-posting of a story I ran in February of last year, when Congressional Republicans were freaking out about the stimulus bill. You know, the last time they told America that we were all going to be enslaved by Teh Socializmz. The lesson is as true today as it was during the stimulus debate, and in turn as true as it was during the 1993 stimulus debate (which is exactly the...
Right-Wing Bloggers Demand Apology From Lawmakers... →
Ok, well. I think it’s now safe to say that either 1) we’ve actually, really turned into Bizarro World; or 2) we are dealing with actual schizophrenic people.
“It used to be that keeping a few free-range chickens, tending some grain-fed...”
– Oxford American - The Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: Warwick Sabin Ponders Why the Rich Get Thinner, the Poor Get Fatter (via champagnecandy) (via ilovefat)
Right ON!
“When Al Gore was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time as...”
– How going green may make you mean
While I hope I’m not guilty of this kind of thing (and I am, I shouldn’t wonder, at least to some degree), I have certainly experienced this among acquaintances who strive for green living — stuff like “I don’t have children, so I can...
Probably an embarrassing question, but...
… I asked someone who’s reasonably technically proficient and he didn’t know either, so: you know that thing people do where they post a screen shot of their iPhone, so you can see a text message conversation or whatever? How do you do that?
Full text of the Senate Reconcilliation Healthcare... →
waifsworld:
squashed:
Spoiler Alert: The changes are all good.
The summary—which has a bit more context than “Strike out $10,000 and replace $8,000” is probably more useful. It’s here.
“It is a flea-infected, tick-infested, parasite-infected, special...”
– via realitychex
Two republican congressmen, I assume trying to out retard one another. Did you hear me Sarah? I said retard because those quotes are just that. (via brooklynmutt)
“Over time, American institutions appear to be growing steadily less accountable....”
– It’s time for Wall Street to pay
I finally found something really bad about NYC
You know, you’d think you could get a frigging Shamrock Shake in New York. But no, you have to go to New Jersey. Or make your own. Goddammit.
“Last August, Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove, a cardiac surgeon and chief executive of the...”
– For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight
“Achievement is a big one in America—disproportionately valued, and often...”
– Weathering the Storm | Psychology Today (via bui)
Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck →
stfuconservatives:
Memo to Glenn Beck: FYL.
“There was a debate last night in preparation for Tuesday’s special...”
– Hiram Monserrate Heckled at Debate; Jose Peralta Has Big Lead
Looks like there is some hope for New York politics after all.
Thank you, Madame Speaker. →
giftedboi:
notemily:
tennroof:
littlebluebeetle:
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risks, but not be job-locked because a child has a child has asthma or diabetes or someone in the family is...
“But Melissa’s book brings up another issue that I like to call the “Good Sex...”
– The Educated Dominatrix and the Good Sex Worker (via kimberleecline) (via clingtomymouth)
I can’t read the rest of the article, but this I agree with. (via robot-heart-politics)
I’m glad someone is saying this. The “sex worker as apotheosis of feminism” thing bothers me on a lot...