Yeah, we all know that 90% of anyone in the US who can fog a mirror wants to tighten up the background check system for the purchase of firearms (including a majority of NRA members if you catch them in a sane moment and ask the question properly), and not quite that many but still [...]
No comment. Well just one. Walmart. (h/t MockPaperScissors)
I’ve actually been following Sadhbh Walsh’s series on prison in the US, which has generally been excellent, but have not commented there because the whole topic pisses me off too much. Then I just ran into this over at MSNBC.com. What we’re looking at here, if you can fucking believe it, is a photo of [...]
And about time too. For those of you fortunate enough not to have come across Pamela Geller, she’s the honcho (honcha?) at the blog “Atlas Shrugs” to which I will not link and which is about what you’d expect it to be, only crazier. She’s also the doyenne of the “creeping Sharia” bug-eyed brigade. Oh, [...]
Welcome to the US, people, which has now officially gone down the rabbit hole. Was it our old friend Benito Mussolini who, in perhaps an apocryphal tale, promised to make the trains run on time, then, when they didn’t, simply made it illegal to talk about them being late? Welcome to North Carolina, now going [...]
There is much more information coming out of Japan about the status of the Fukushima catastrophe than is appearing on the front page of the MSM. We’ll get to some speculation about the reasons for that later, but first let’s note that the main concern for most observers is not the reactor core(s) (though that’s [...]
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m having serious burn-out on the political front lately. It’s hard to get excited about an electoral contest between on the one hand quite possibly the most bland and certainly the most chameleonesque candidate I’ve ever seen, and on the other a disappointingly lackluster incumbent who, aside from campaign [...]
OK, really, after this one I’m giving the subject a rest. For a while at least. This is an ad from the folks at MoveOn. I hope they find the money to put it on TV screens from coast to coast. A real simple concept — just put the words, the actual words, from male [...]
OK, one more, then let’s move on. Like I said, there’s at least one of these per day now; MADISON — The Wisconsin Assembly passed bills limiting insurance coverage for abortions and requiring schools to teach abstinence during a late-night session that lasted until Wednesday morning as they pushed to tie up pending legislation. The [...]
… today’s kind of a big day, assuming the choice of a Presidential nominee actually matters nowadays. Today’s the day that could be pivotal, one way or another, in the selection of one of them. That’s the good news. The other news concerns who those Very Important Voters actually are. Let’s take a look first [...]