Home from work on a mental health day, I’m having the misfortune of seeing Indiana US Representative/Silverback Gorilla Mike Pence hooting about the paltry ($6 billion) budget impasse that they will SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OVER. The House GOP – made up of litters of like-minded chimps elected last fall via Tea Party support – is […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2011
Police and onlookers look on in helpless horror at jumping factory workers Thinking about The Triangle Factory Shirtwaist fire is hard. It’s not easy to deflect the images of the images of the young women leaping or dropping from windows, their skirt hems aflame. Harder still is accepting the abjection that has eroded the souls […]
Snopes.com: “The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation”. Snopesed (verb), Snopsing (noun) Derivation: the online urban legend reference site: Snopes.com where you plug in keywords to reveal basic fallacies and/or half-truths inherent in a forwarded email. Usage: to indicate the validity of a suspect story: “It sounds fake. You should […]
Beware lip balm. Most are terrible, some purposefully addictive as to make lips worse, some delicious but out of fashion, i.e. Dr. Pepper by Lip Smackers. The world’s best Lippen-pfflegestift is from German company, Effol, founded in 1906 to provide healing and hoof ointment for the agricultural community, for which horses were the backbone. Not cheap […]
Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor/hypocrite/shit for brains/champion of the rights of teachers? In making his case for The budget-repair bill, which would strip most collective-bargaining rights from 175,000 public-sector workers while imposing immediate benefits concessions, Walker sought to highlight the plight of a one such teacher. Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in 2010, […]
This morning I woke up feeling like crap. Inexplicably confused about the time change, I left for work too early, so I stopped at Rite Aid, across from my office in search of an over-the-counter remedy for what ailed me: malaise, hazy-head, ennui. I roamed through the aisles and eventually did find that antidote, just […]
Post Secession Texas Oh say can you see an America without Texas? Yes. I think I can! The Texas Nationalist Movement marked Texas Independence Day with a rally on Saturday at the Capitol urging Texans to save the state by seceding from the United States. It’s sad to think there was once a tradition in Texas […]
I had a debate with a friend over breakfast the other day, where it was concluded that I was narrow-minded and intractable in my blanket hatred of ALL Republicans. “NO,” I said, “there are NO Republicans that I want to talk to ANYMORE”. At some point over the past 10 years – maybe it […]