Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

SPORTSbyBROOKS » L.A. Douses Adenhart Jersey In Celebratory Booze

Yes, as this article points out there is something slightly unseemly about pouring booze of a jersey of a fallen teammate who died in a drunk driving incident, but I’m damn sure that’s not what was on the minds of the Angels as they celebrated winning their division.

They wanted to share their success with Nick Adenhart, wishing he’d lived long enough to enjoy the moment with them.

The Angels are one of those few AL teams I have no problems with – maybe because they used to own the atrocity now known as the Quad City Swing or whatever there name now is. So, it is nice to see them have some success. Now, of course, it is probably on their shoulders to make sure the Yankees never see the World Series.

Good luck guys!

Think Progress » Texas schools move away from abstinence-only education: We don’t think it’s working.

It took awhile, but adrift in higher pregnancy rates and increased STD infections, the State of Texas wakes up to reality and figures out that abstinence-only “sex education” is a failure.

Well, not to gloat given the horrible results of your stupidity, but, um, not educating people is not how your prepare them for life.

Good luck racing to join the 21st century. I’m sure you’ll find another way to screw that up too.

TRENT FRANKS : DANGEROUSLY INSANE PERSON

Reposted in it’s entirety because Elvis deserves full credit for this post without any editorializing by me.

By BCAB Chief Insane Wingnut Watcher Elvis Dingeldein.

Just a brief note to remind you all that if, Teh Only True Honky God™ Forbid, Something Awful Happens to the President of the United States, it absolutely will not be due to Republican efforts to dehumanize him as something crapped out of Satan’s pustule-ridden Hades Hole and stitched together from Hitler Bits and wolf offal. Nooo, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Fucking Wingnutville) just wants to remind you that the democratically-elected President of the United States is simply “an enemy of humanity.” That’s all! No harm there, right?

Oh no, you heard that right! A sitting Congressman of the United States House of Representatives (“The House That Hope Forgot”) wants you to know that the president is an enemy of the whole of humanity. Not just to White Honky Taxpaying Taxpayers; not just to Old Peoples with their troublesome longevities; not just to Straight American Married Peoples terrified of Sudden Inexplicable Gayness Syndrome; not just to Decent Muslim-Fearing Christians with actual birth certificates not printed on Kenyan treebark! No, President Obama is the enemy of all humanity.

Nothing inflammatory or rabble-rousing about that.

Caroline Myss: Republicans and the Art of Racism

As the title descibes, an article on the racism pervasive in the Republican Party.

Yes, I know there are plenty of Republicans who aren’t racist, and who aren’t Talibangelical End Times fanatics, and who don’t beat their wives and so on. That said, those folks sure the hell aren’t doing anything to silence the angry, violent, and seditious voices that are taking over their party.

Guilt by association is still a crime if you aren’t doing anything to improve matters.

However Great His Talent, Polanski Is Still Guilty : NPR

Ya know, I’ve known some bad people in my life. Not necessarily evil, but not your traditional amount of good and moral either. I’m glad to see this article at the NPR site.

In a nutshell:

At the end of the day, would we be OK with our 13-year-old daughter being drugged and raped by a 44-year-old? And are we OK with him then skipping town?

The answer to these questions would be no-brainers if the 44-year-old involved were not a world-renowned, brilliant director. So applaud his work and award him an Oscar. But don’t say he’s a victim who deserves to be excused.

And that’s the long and short of it. I’ve know gang members, folks who have done time for drug dealing, gang activity, even attempted murder in a couple cases. But, despite their crimes, they weren’t evil.

Evil? Evil in at least one form is some jackass who thinks it’s okay to sleep with a thirteen year old girl. No, not just think it: do it.

For those sick bastards who somehow justify this kind of behavior, answer me this: are you also cool with FLDS members having secret marriages to teenage girls? Because I’d say most folks, especially mainstream LDS members that I know, think those folks are sick.

It’s pedophilia. It’s child abuse. It’s a crime, and the bastard needed to do time for it decades ago. The fact that people still find some reason to think he doesn’t makes me sick.