What an incredibly shitty day to be a Cubs fan.

Knowing that Daddy Moneybags of the clan (klan?) that owns the team is a rabid, dog-whistling racist shitbag is one thing. Knowing his brood is trying to extort $300 from the city of Chicago to fix up Wrigley while having at least $10 million ready to blow on racist advertising is even worse.

I’m still trying to get the family tickets to one of the Twins-Cubs games next month. I’ll still watch the team. But I’ll be damned if I am going out of my way to give this prick Joe Ricketts any penny I can avoid handing over.

And to hell with his kids for standing by him. If my dad sounded like a modern day Klucker, I’d call him out as a bigoted idiot like he’d deserve.

The right wing went after – and destroyed – ACORN, which basically got poor folks registered to vote. Meanwhile, ALEC is still in business, pushing for the right to shoot anyone whose skin color you don’t like and making it possible to disenfranchise the same poor and minority folks ACORN was assaulted for giving a damn about.

The world ain’t fair.

Congrats to Japan for weaning themselves off the nuclear teat. Granted, they have repeatedly paid a high cost to the atom.

Still, why can’t this be us?

I heard this in multiple venues yesterday. If only we reacted to every threat with this respectful solidarity.

From The World’s broadcast yesterday.

Also, as covered by NPR.

Some food for thought on the online privacy argument.

One of the worst things we have done in this nation is to make damn near everything a felony. Particularly things like drug use which can be cured at less cost than in just locking folks up.

Given the racial bias in sentencing for drug crimes, it just seems like a way to keep minorities off the streets – and away from the voting booth. Sunday Morning spent some time today on the issue.

It needs more attention but this helps.

CBS Video link

An awesome statement on something we should all strive to do whenever we can.

Buy something and keep it in good repair as long as you can. Eventually industry might get back to making things that last. We can hope, right?

Then again, I spend an hour or so every week fixing stuff around here, usually toys or stuff *I* myself bust. So I’m all on board with this notion without even realizing it.

My first thought about this somewhat intensely investigated story is that one look at this pic and I can’t stop thinking that Banksy is Saul Rubinek.

Republicans don’t believe in science.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I know otherwise bright people who think the GOP is teh shiznit. Engineers, educators, database gurus. But they just pull the lever. They aren’t looking at who they are voting for. Or – worse – they know and do it anyway.

You’ve got a party that doesn’t believe in evolution, or sex ed, or math apparently. Definitely not in climate change. Certainly not in the scientific method.

It would be pathetic if it wasn’t a plot to dumb down our nation long enough for them to hold power for another generation.