Some great advice on how to travel with homebrewed gear so you can get to your destination both with your gadgets and without a detour to Gitmo.
A Spirited Weekend: Rum Cocktails
To anyone that knows me, it is no surprise that I like rum. Some of my best work trips have involved going to the Caribbean and sampling the local variations.
So, in honor of days gone by, here are some rum cocktail recipes.
Republicans Recycle an Old Idea: the Foam Plastic Coffee Cup
Republicans hate the environment so much they are purposely bringing back styrofoam cups to the Capitol.
Idiots.
What’s next? Adding radium to the shower heads?
Coca – Continued | This American Life
More information on reverse-engineering the original Coca-Cola recipe.
For Richer and Poorer – The Daily Show
Priorities – Walker’s Budget Slashes Medicaid, While Increasing Funeral Assistance For Destitute Who Die
Wisconsin’s Tea Bagging Governor Scott Walker isn’t just out to take the rights away from public workers.
No, he’s got more in mind. Give him credit though, he’s at least thought this one through. He’s cutting Medicaid benefits to his citizens, BUT he’s increasing the amount of funeral expense money given to the indigent.
So, in “compassionate conservative” terms, you can go broke trying to stay alive – and the GOP won’t lift a finger to help with that – but when you die destitute, they’ll help get you buried and out of public view lickety split.
Rick Perry’s Juarez gaffe
Once again, the combination of Republican hatred of education and the Texas Governor collides in yet another bout of stupidity.
Traitor Rick, gubner of the sovereign quasi-independent state of Texas, is concerned about all the Mexicans getting killed in Juarez in the drug wars. This is a highly commendable stance. People should not be shot just for where they live.
However, his concern seems to lie not in the abstract belief that life in sacred. No, he is concerned that Juarez lies in Texas and that he might be held accountable for those deaths.
Idiot.
NYT: Teachers wonder, why the scorn? – U.S. news – The New York Times – msnbc.com
Republicans hate teachers, and teachers are somewhat befuddled as to why.
Hell, so are the rest of us. I mean, I know conservatives hate education as much as the next Arab despot, but to hate the educators too?
Why Don’t Teachers Get the Respect They Deserve? Republicans Would Rather Destroy Schools Than Raise Taxes on Millionaires | News & Politics | AlterNet
“New Jersey has the third highest percentage of millionaire residents in America. Damn near 7 percent of the people that live in New Jersey are millionaires.
New Jersey millionaires, how many of them are there? Well, there’s 212,000 of them.
How many teachers? A hundred and twelve thousand.
They got more millionaires in New Jersey than they do teachers, but we got to have the teachers pay for everything. We can’t raise the taxes on the rich folks over in New Jersey, maybe the top 2 percent maybe giving 1 more percent? Nope, can’t do that.”
Ed likes to get bent out of shape over a lot of things, but sometimes he picks the right thing to be pissed about.
Required Reading: It’s the Inequality, Stupid
Some damning information in graph form on how much wealth has been concentrated amongst so few Americans.
Or to put it another way, how little money is left for the rest of us to fight over.
