Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Not Good
It's February 19 in Massachusetts and I saw one of these on a walk.
Pretty soon mosquitoes and ticks will live year round in New England.
Updated:
Don't get me wrong, it was great to see a bluebird, but we entirely skipped winter this year.
Update 2:
I have been informed by a reliable birder that the Eastern Bluebird has been wintering in Central MA for the past 5 years.
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| Eastern Bluebird |
Pretty soon mosquitoes and ticks will live year round in New England.
Updated:
Don't get me wrong, it was great to see a bluebird, but we entirely skipped winter this year.
Update 2:
I have been informed by a reliable birder that the Eastern Bluebird has been wintering in Central MA for the past 5 years.
Friday, February 17, 2012
The American Clergy...
...take time out from being boy-bothered to participate in a little Republican ratfucking.
The full panel
We'll just pretend that their otherwise compromised moral convictions are flexible enough to be used as a cudgel for women.
Good job guys.
*a better take.
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| Congressional Hearing on Contraception 02/16/12 |
The full panel
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| from here |
We'll just pretend that their otherwise compromised moral convictions are flexible enough to be used as a cudgel for women.
Good job guys.
*a better take.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Cheer Up
Decline
naked along the side of the house,
8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil
over my body, Jesus, have I come
to this?
I once battled in dark alleys for a
laugh.
now I'm not laughing.
I splash myself with oil and wonder,
how many years do you want?
how many days?
my blood is soiled and a dark
angel sits in my brain.
things are made of something and
go to nothing.
I understand the fall of cities, of
nations.
a small plane passes overhead.
I look upward as if it made sense to
look upward.
it's true, the sky has rotted:
it won't be long for any of
us.
Charles Bukowski
from The Olympia Review - 1994
Sunday, February 12, 2012
A Forgotten Film
One of my favorites.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, 1955
Droll and droll.
*currently streaming on Netflix
Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, 1955
Droll and droll.
*currently streaming on Netflix
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Santorum 2012
Parody no more.
The decades long Republican war on abortion—and now contraception—is really a war on ladies sexytime.
Also...
The decades long Republican war on abortion—and now contraception—is really a war on ladies sexytime.
Also...
Charles Pierce looks askance at Ross Douthat.
Douthat:
But even amid downturns and deficits, the culture wars are still inevitably significant, for the very simple reason that there’s no common ground on which to call a truce.
Pierce:
(Yes, because one side of the culture wars, which happens to be the side on which Douthat is a troubled young top kick himself, has no intention of calling a "truce" until it has absolutely everything it wants, which includes the right to tell women what to do with their lady parts because that's what Jesus entitles that side of the culture wars to do. That's why we're suddenly arguing in our politics about contraception, as though the Church's record on that issue hasn't been laughable since 1965. Only one side of the culture wars, it should be noted, has a body count.)
Douthat:
Start with the contraception mandate. To many observers, myself included, a mandate that required insurers to cover reproductive interventions while exempting religious employers seemed like the obvious way for a liberal White House to advance its social agenda while preserving social peace.
Pierce:
(Big of you, lad. Of course, you're not a Dominican Episcopalian making $16,000 a year cleaning bedpans in a Catholic hospital who can't afford the $600 a month co-pay for the birth control she needs to control her heavy bleeding and yet who, through no fault of her own, finds that she has to live with the theological horse-pucky of Humanae Vitae as enshrined as an "exemption" in American secular law. Here's the truce: Bishops can decide to act on their principles, or keep the tax breaks.)
Monday, February 06, 2012
Objectivists And Rape
All the college kids who think Ron Paul is 2012's John Anderson need to consider what it means to believe that there's a "rape spectrum"—from "good" rape, which means bad rape, yet honest, to "bad" rape, which is actually better because it's dishonest...huh..?
The presidency (and rape) are not adolescent thought experiments.
from here
The presidency (and rape) are not adolescent thought experiments.
from here
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Why The Right Hates You
...I'm stealing this downer post from another site...because it's good...and I'm lazy.
My two cents...
...right wingers hate liberals because they simply cannot fathom that the sentient world is larger than what they experience directly. They hate to be wrong, and any person or entity that suggests otherwise needs to be hated even more.They crave a type of victimhood that justifies their hatred and, yes gun hoarding and violence.
John Cole's entire post
They Fucking Hate You
They just do.
They masquerade their bullshit in the words of Jesus and the all-knowing free market, but it is transparent what motivates them. Not love for their fellow man, not love for their fellow citizen, not love for country- what motivates them is hate for the other.
You.
They fucking hate you. They want you, and everyone who speaks for you, and every institution that represents your values, whether it be Planned Parenthood or food banks or ACORN- you name it. They want it destroyed.
I just do not understand why more people do not recognize this. The Republicans have declared total war on America, and people are responding like this is politics as usual. It isn’t. It really isn’t. It’s really all or nothing at this point. We put the birchers/tea party/conservatives back in their place and destroy the current GOP, or we deal with this shit for the next forty-sixty years.
My two cents...
...right wingers hate liberals because they simply cannot fathom that the sentient world is larger than what they experience directly. They hate to be wrong, and any person or entity that suggests otherwise needs to be hated even more.They crave a type of victimhood that justifies their hatred and, yes gun hoarding and violence.
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| This isn't a game. |
John Cole's entire post
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Atrios Cuts To The Chase
LAWS ARE FOR OTHER PEOPLEfrom here
It's important to remember that so many of the laws that our culture warriors want aren't for them, they're for other people. There is a battle to prevent poor women from having abortion, there is a war on some drugs taken by some people, etc. Elites know (mostly correctly) that these laws will never apply to them, that their daughters will have no trouble taking care of that little problem when the time comes.
They're just awful horrible people.
Friday, February 03, 2012
You Can't Kill The Rooster
David Sedaris
When I was 8 years old, my mother moved the "family" from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a farm in rural Kentucky. My younger brother was 5, and like David Sedaris' brother, he proved that culture regularly overwhelms nature...he's as southern as they come.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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