What do ya know? An insurance company scaring their elderly customers into lobbying on their behalf.
Again, I’m shocked!
Please, can some of these jerks do time for this or something?
Turns out this story is going subscriber only. Check out Huff Po’s coverage on it.
Scott Simon jumps on the bandwagon to have Chicago host the 2016 Olympics.
Hey, I love the idea. I’d love to have Gabriel see such a spectacle AND show him a city I love at the same time.
Personally, I loathe canned beer, but if I ever run across this stuff I’ll at least give it a try. Sounds like good people behind it.
You know, I realize I’m getting old. I live in a place where everyone is damn near half my age so my perspective on life is really getting screwed out of proportion. They are necessarily bad kids, it’s just, well, we were ALL idiots in our early twenties, right?
So here is a story about two teenage girls who got lost exploring their local storm drain system. Which, I’m going to give them credit for because they easily could have been slacking at the mall.
So they get lost, have great cell coverage and don’t call the cops. Instead, they update their profiles and then sit around for seven hours waiting for someone to put it all together for them.
We’re doomed, folks.
I’m as guilty of this as anyone, but Leslie has always been down on the casual use of this word.
Apparently, the move to make it taboo is growing. It would be nice to see us all speak better of others and to not toss around cruel words so casually.
Granted, I’ve got a lot of work to do on that myself with other words.
Every time I read or hear something from Frank Schaeffer, it chills me to the bone. We actually *do* have a Fifth Column in this nation and they are literally holier than thou.
The generation raised on the belief that the US government is illegitimate because it is trying to “impose” non-biblical laws on people has hit the streets. These are the people who grew up indoctrinated into an alternative reality. Today they are out there waving signs of Obama dressed as Hitler. They are buying weapons and ammunition. Some are in the growing and revived militia movement. They are Dick Armey’s foot soldiers. People like Armey and Beck can count on the ignorance of their dupes. It’s against their religion to read a real newspaper, watch anything but Fox or go to a real school.
Here he is on Rachel Maddow the other night talking about Talibangelical crazies:
Here is another recent article touching on how we should work on our civility, and on defending our points based on reason rather than emotions.
I love this. I, like a lot of folks, really wish Obama would reach out and bitchslap the Joe Wilsons and Lush Rimjobs of the world. But he never does. He just lets them prove how dimwitted and oftentimes racist they are. Read this.
If anything, I’m a little giddy. For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposing an ancient hatred that has simmered in this country for decades. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of us grew tired of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, mostly because they presented easy foils for Limbaugh-land. Moreover, again rightly or wrongly, they were used to define all of us.
It’s about time.
I trust phone companies the same way I do insurance companies, corporations and Southern cops. Which is to say: not at all.
I’m glad to see that some senators are working to roll back the telco “get out of jail free” cards that Bush passed out with the PATRIOT Act.
Hopefully this law gets passed so we can get some of our freedom from spying eyes and ears leftover during the Reign of the NeoThugs.
Max Brooks. On Olbermann. Talking about Republicans and Zombies.
Incidentally, I found this when trying to find something on Brook’s visit to Las Vegas next month. And, yes, I’m going.
Boy am I glad we aren’t raising Gabriel in Oklahoma.
They know next to nothing about America. Either they are really dumb or the teachers there are feeding them the same anti-American BS they apparently are teaching kids in Texas.