Cross? Yes I am.
I would probably go to the co-op up the street more often were it not so heavily infested with hippies. Slow moving, aisle-blocking, filled with the beauty of spring and about as quick to get to any other given point, fucking hippies.
So slow the second-fastest moving person at the co-op today was a one-legged young woman who crutched her way through the store at light speed compared to the label-examining, produce-sniffing, slack-brained organically driven shoppers who were rivaled in their slowness only by the granola-breathed volunteers clogging the aisles and slowing down the check out process.
There’s a reason why Boomers of my age bracket were willing to be called freaks. Any name was fine but hippy because hippies are, um, you know.
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Start with Jerry Lemaine today. I dare you. And click to the second page because they couldn’t cram all the atrocities into the lead graf.
With the possible exception of North Korea, I cannot think of another nation on earth that treats visitors and foreign residents so poorly, or which does so as consistently and mean-spiritedly. Each and every day we tell thousands of people who weren’t born in this country to fuck off, eat shit and die, and I’m past being embarrassed by it and am now just enraged by our betrayal of our own immigrant roots to the shrill caterwauling of our xenophobic Becks, Hannitys and Limbaughs and their hordes of empty-headed followers.
Not that we treat our own much better, not if by our own you mean the frail and elderly. And god help the kids (especially in Ohio).
But still, things are getting better [that case impacts Jerry Lemaine's], and we have prospects for still more improvement on the horizon. However slowly some are coming to their senses.
Unless, of course, you’re a ring-kissing Catholic. Or worse, a Rwandan Priest. Neither Obama or Pelosi can do anything about spiritual shackles. (And no, apparently the Pope cannot be impeached but I think the Church has other ways of fixing these things that make impeachment seem rather mild.)
Leave it to the Catholic League to make things worse. Each day they get closer and closer to becoming indistinguishable from Fred Phelps and his whelps.
And lets not forget that 1995 vibe out there. [More from Dave Neiwert and Rachel Maddow (video)]
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Garrison Keillor on all of the above and why you should feel free to disregard bloggers like me (or maybe not me, per se).
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Unsurprisingly, wingnut paranoia over the census may cost them seats in Congress.
Fucking maroons.
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It should go without saying, but sometimes when cops shoot someone, that’s a good thing. From the Daily Glean:
It was a wild scene in Cottage Grove Tuesday as a cop was dragged almost 600 feet by a guy who suddenly decided he wasn’t going to put up with a traffic stop. The cop involved ended up shooting and killing the driver, with the guy’s wife and 11-month-old child in the car. A relative takes an unsentimental view of the death in Elizabeth Mohr’s PiPress story: “Until recently, the couple and their infant son had been living in Woodbury with Jessica’s mother,
Suzi, and her husband, Tim Clark. Tim Clark said he wasn’t shocked by the news, saying [the deceased] Robert “Bobby” Wilson has a lengthy criminal history, which, according to court records, includes assault with a dangerous weapon, theft and drug possession. ‘I’m sorry it had to come to this, but this does not surprise me at all … Do you know what a relief it is to know he’s not going to be able to do anything to anybody anymore? It’s nothing but one big relief.’ “
Sounds like someone we’re better off without. Also from today’s Glean:
An AP story says that the Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that will allow children to perform in bars on school nights. One legislator “wants to allow children to perform — with a parent present — in a dance hall, night club, tavern or similar place before 9 p.m. on school nights or before 10 p.m. other nights. And only for musical or theatrical performances.”
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I would have enjoyed this article on exercise a lot more had the author not willfully distorted a study’s findings by ignoring the fact that fit people weigh more per square inch than unfit people, muscle weighing more than fat.
A cheap bit of talk radio statistical analysis, which is, more and more, what I’m coming to expect from The Daily Beast. Better than Mediaite, but not by much.
Yes, a new notch in the belt today. That’s eight new notches, or one for every two pounds I’ve lost and I haven’t felt this good in years.
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Raw stories:
Greenpeace on the Koch Bros., and no, I don’t mean the talented brothers who play for UNI
More on Caroline Hunter
Yes Men do the wurlitzer thing and the media falls in hook, line and no factchecking
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More:
Yeah, I did a double-take too when I saw that Palin interviewed LL Cool J, probably because she didn’t [more]
Seniors having a moment at the expense of prisoners
A startling series of tweets that make me think my beer bender the other night may have been initiated by my inner wingnut
The DfuckingCCC
What if reichwing media wanted to incite violence?
First Do No Harm (part 2)
Ahmed fucking Chalabi, cont.
Tarryl Clark or Dr. Maureen Reed
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Etc.:
New Bits (and the free Thai/Cambodian music download alone is worth the click, so much so you might want to donate to that eminently worthy cause)
I suspect this is far from being bad news
Toyota, sudden acceleration and cosmic rays
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And just to reiterate a point I keep making, we’ve got high unemployment because productivity improvements mean we don’t need as many workers.
Isn’t it time we dealt with that fact and reinvested in education to help raise a new generation of business leaders who are focused on jobs creation over excess profit?
