Nothing like a late night meeting with an attorney to make me reach for the bottle and pipe. Not my attorney, but the meeting was about stuff I’ll have to help with so there you go.
I did get some kind of potted plant to go with my retainer. Actually I was asked to throw it in the dumpster on the way out but it wasn’t dead yet so I figured why not take it home? That gives me the entire winter to torture it and then, just as spring arrives…I’ll kill it.
All part of my 50-year master plan to exact my revenge on the crops I had to tend to in my youth.
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Bernie Horn has an interesting observation about the off-off-year elections.
Voters continue to allow conservative candidates to define themselves. The Republican candidates for governor in both New Jersey and Virginia promoted themselves as practical, mainstream, and moderate—and persuadable voters believed them. But even bedrock Republicans will reject candidates who openly embrace the extremist, tea-bagger philosophy that dominates Republicans in our Nation’s Capital.
It’s not good news that average Americans continue to buy into rightwing crap when they take the time to lie about their agenda, but it’s good news that when the right runs as the right, the voters make a face and pick the Democrat. [additional post-mortem]
More of the lies and greasy truths as told by Republicans:
John Fund’s bullshit about ACORN [PW's take]
Steve King dispelled
Dick Armey makes Doug Hoffman, then rakes him
As well as the usual media smirkprop:
I’ve been waiting for this one: Bill Kling’s total annual compensation [more]
Diane Sawyer jumps the tofurkey
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Nothing else explains people like Alan Greenspan and Megan McArdle and all those other idiotic Ayn Rand devotees, big and small, who continually go out there in public and flog pseudo-religious beliefs about the self-correcting free-market as a cure-all for anything and everything, even as evidence to the contrary rains down from the sky like volcanic ash. These people actually believe this shit and they believe it with the imbecilic ferocity of teenagers, even the ones who are 190 years old like Greenspan (who incidentally finally conceded a “flaw” in his thinking, but only after the entire world exploded and even all the reality-proof friendly data sources he had relied upon for his whole life told him his ideas were fucked), and it’s nearly impossible to get them to let so much as a sliver of their belief systems go.
Hard not to love a guy who ends a post with “What a bunch of assholes!”
It does come down to that. When the status quo is klepto, anything beyond “assholes” is overwriting. It’s time for reductive assessments and direct speech.
Taibbi:
They lie to themselves and think up elaborate reasons to do the bad acts they were already hoping to do anyway. Some day, when historians finish peeling back all the different onion-layers of this financial disaster we’re living out right now, they’re going to find at the heart of it all this social Darwinist mantra wherein a very small group of overeducated twerps agreed to believe that stealing every last dime they could get their hands on was something other than what it looks and sounds like to the rest of us.
Since the ’70s I have been asking for an explanation as to how the stock market makes any sense whatsoever. Banks call it quit when you pay them off but with stock Wall Street owns a piece of you forever, which is way longer than the time it took you to spend the original investment.
It doesn’t please me that people I know who worked hard all their life have nothing more to show for it than a bum like me who grasshoppered his way through both Bush interregnums. People have been swindled, conned, Ponzied and left hanging out to dry. Survivors are being worked like dogs and they’re the lucky ones.
It’s OK to be mad about this. It’s even more OK to insist something be done about it.
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Bishop Spong draws a line in the sand, then turns his back on it and walks away.
I can see why Tild likes the dude.
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Three-quarters of 17- to 24-year-olds aren’t fit for duty. Reasons? Poorly educated, overweight, criminal records, drug use, mental problems, physical ailments and all the other problems associated with poverty and a culture debased by corporate values.
They were ages 9 through 15 when George W. Bush took office. Imagine what the next batch will be like.
[via MinnPost]
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EtC:
Gayest gubernatorial race ever
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