Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Losing a Whole Year

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The Out Crowd

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Few things are funnier than watching huge corporations appropriate teenybopper slang for cheesy social-media marketing lingo as it's a...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Malacca Triangle

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Remind me never to get on an Asian passenger jet. Two in about ten months, they're losing these things like socks in a fucking dryer.
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Giuliani Time

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Maybe I missed it in what coverage of the police protests I've seen, but I would have definitely taken note of protesters literally cha...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Work Ethic

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Interesting article in the NY Times about the apparent statistical correlation between higher taxes, stronger social safety nets, and lower...

The Paranoid Style, Part 2: State of Siege

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It continues to be the one of the most fascinating dynamics in this -- or indeed any -- year:  the way political demographics who have dist...

The Paranoid Style

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So let's see if we have this straight -- one of the world's largest entertainment companies just got intimidated to its knees by a ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

The Torture Never Stops

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There are some pretty simple rules of thumb that can be used to determine whether something is "torture" or not: Would it qualify...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

This Week In Butthurt

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Here's one useful way to tell that law enforcement officers and their union reps are inherently aligned with what are now called "...

Freedom of Choice

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Boy, when the pro-life crowd want to yank your heart-strings , they go all out, don't they? It's very tempting to pull an Ed and FJM...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Takin' It to the Streets

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Let's reiterate, for the kids in the cheap seats:  it doesn't matter if you throw Molotov cocktails in the streets, or lay down in G...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

First Amendment Remedies

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What have we learned from the Ferguson riots -- or, perhaps more meta-importantly, the coverage of the Ferguson riots? The most critical th...
Monday, November 24, 2014

No Surprises

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There can't possibly be anyone out there surprised by the Ferguson grand jury's finding. All the usual ofay assholes, the Giuliani...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Dugout

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One of the "advantages" of having mostly conservative (especially a few really conservative) Facebook friends is that you get di...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Spanish Fly

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So, uh, this Cosby thing , right? I can't recall offhand which one in the flurry of commenters said, as this story was breaking hard ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

It's Not Even Past

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Let's not put too fine a point on it -- if the events and actions and social dynamics in the south over the past 150 have taught us any...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Oversight

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Just wondering what it might be like if this country had, say, a governmental agency that provided regulation and oversight on an untrustwo...
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Cross Purposes

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I wasn't aware of this freaky asshole until just the other day, and right away you wish you didn't know about him. It's at le...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Insane in the Membrane

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It's no surprise that Bo Dietl is an ignorant, jingoist asshole, but I didn't realize that he'd lost his fucking mind. Someone...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Race to the Bottom

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It's in the nature of partisan commentators , in the wake of an electoral blowout, to spend time attributing the loss of clearly bette...