Late links
New stuff from Matt Taibbi! including whores, whores and more whores.
More:
Recordkeeping? Not when it’s your money!
Supreme Borks split on gender lines over WalMart?
Artists question winner-take-all rules
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News:
Privatization WTF?: prison inmates to cater high school prom
35th Anniversary of Land Day massacre
Texas’ illegal drug problem (state keeps bypassing the law to keep its death fix going)
Research suggests Christians embrace whackjob intelligent design theories because they’re afraid of death
Former PBS station to be sold to Scientologists (because there aren’t nearly enough lying fucking liars on the air already)
Steve Benen with a roundup of coverage on the New Black Panther nonstory
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Politics:
When you’ve been a scold all your life, your relatives will make no effort to stop you from embarrassing yourself further in your old age: Phyllis Schlafly (and her niece) have written a new book that’s heavy on assertions, light on facts (her niece also admits that Schafly relied on nannies and housekeepers while being a professional anti-feminist housewife)
More on the amazing alacrity with which the right throws their icons’ family members under the bus
Ex-ACORN employee punks O’Keefe for likening his work to Ashton Kutcher’s [MMFA has a chart you should see] [more on the inability of people to understand that which they get paid not to understand]
Abortion: it really brings out the very worst in Republicans [even Republicans are getting embarrassed] [even as Katherine Kersten's favorite "liberal" applauds attacks women's health funding]
Roy Edroso on Georgia’s racist gerrymandering (not content with “suburbs,” they created new cities to shield white taxmoney from the poor)
Courtesy of Rob Levine, a story and video about Shawna Forde (I could only take about ten minutes of it, but it’s well done and if you don’t understand where these fucktards are coming from, it’s helpful to see that they mostly look like your older relatives, well, mine anyway)
After watching Conviction and learning about how Martha Coakley screwed the innocent and dragged her heels on DNA testing, I’m almost glad Scott Brown’s numbers are up (what the fuck were Mass Dems thinking?)
WI:
Judge reiterates: the law is NOT in effect [BREAKING: Walker folds!]
GOoPers demand Sean Duffy video be pulled from internet (not because it’s untrue, but because it makes them look bad) (optics, don’t'cha know)
More on that Republican-appointed “leftist” judge
Andy Kroll: union busting or Republican busting?
Dylan Ratigan + the eXiled on the Kochs [video]
Rick Scott booed after throwing out first pitch of spring training game
Rick Scott to shatter personal hypocrisy record today
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Nice bit on Mpls politics from Lambert:
MPR’s transcript of an interview with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak Tuesday inadvertently dropped a zero from His Honor’s argument about LGA. The original story had Rybak citing the “$40 million” in tax revenue Minneapolis sends off to the state. The actual number is much closer to … $400 million. And it appears, by checking with MPR’s PoliGraph blogger, Catharine Richert that Rybak has done his math: “Rybak lays out a lot of reasons why he thinks cutting LGA is a bad idea, pointing out that Minneapolis puts more in the state coffers than it takes out in state aid. He’s correct. City budgeters estimate that the state will collect roughly $380 million in sales taxes and roughly $75 million in commercial property taxes from Minneapolis. Minus the $87.5 million in LGA Minneapolis is slated to get in 2011, the city is expected to provide the state with $367.5 million this year. The Verdict: For his first PoliGraph test, Rybak earns an Accurate.”
I think what Lambert’s trying to say (but is too polite to spell out) is that most of the state is mooching off the Twin Cities, yet Republican fiscal solutions all seek to penalize the urban poor who’re just trying to get by in a place where rents and taxes are higher than they are in rural Minnesota.
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Etc.:
Paul Allen calls Bill Gates a mercenary opportunist who screwed him out of part of his stake in Microsoft (MS was always about the money first, and quality last)
READ THIS IF YOU HAVE A SAMSUNG LAPTOP
Another study says cell phone radiation bad (but apologizes for suggesting that users cut back on their phone time because yes, it’s OK to be a slave to your devices) (are they worth bleeding for?)
Wolcott: Pallbearers at the Orgy
Nick Coleman: volunteer MinnRoast pallbearer
Locally, Porky’s closes this Sunday (loved the grease but way too salty for this old man but clearly healthier than a vegan diet)
Louis Vuitton makes an ass of itself, cont.
The house that looks like Hitler [bonus illo of Hitler cat]
The latest in Bits
Wolverine uploader to go to jail after being selectively prosecuted
More proof sports journalism isn’t sporting or journalistic
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Trying to decide if I type faster when I have a “typewriter” program running that makes my keystrokes sound like an old typewriter.
Yes, I’m turning into an old person but that doesn’t mean I’d trade in my Mac for a vintage typewriter. That’s nuts.
The truth is I tweak my computing environment constantly. Music on or off, desktop pictures and icons changed weekly if not more often. The rug under my desk? Vacuumed at least once a year whether it needs it or not. (Note to self: did you vacuum this year because I think I forgot last year….)
I lurv this commenter under the Taibbi post:
Why can’t we have regulated, hybrid, Socialist Capitalism (which works just fine) instead of this wild swing between Wild-eyed Communism (which never works out) and Wild-eyed Capitalism (which also never works out). For God’s sake – the Founding Fathers were more than anything else, big into checks and balances to prevent just this sort of lunatic frenzy of power-grabbing. I know people in general are more stupid than Small-mouth Bass, but there must be some way to start pushing actual history out there. Maybe somebody could invent a series of tubes to deliver electronic information directly to our desks, or something.
Halfway to a typewriter.
http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
I’ve seen keyboards like that before and have always been very jealous.