Tactics that the Sopranos would love … The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday. “Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter says. “We will be reviewing voting records … to determine whether you joined
October 2014
October 31, 2014
They are consenting adults; so NY State sees nothing wrong about an uncle and niece marriage [Darleen Click]
Once marriage became a Love-Right, then limits on number and consanguinity became irrelevant. The state’s highest court has toppled a cultural taboo — legalizing a degree of incest, at least between an uncle and niece — in a unanimous ruling. While the laws against “parent-child and brother-sister marriages … are grounded in the almost universal horror with which such marriages are viewed … there is no comparably strong objection to
October 31, 2014
A Halloween Message from protein wisdom
BOO! Yeah, you flinched. Admit it — if not to me, at least to yourselves. Have some integrity, for Chrissakes. Now back to my regularly scheduled morass of bureaucratically-inspired legal paperwork.
October 30, 2014
I get emails, cont.
This latest comes from Karl Frisch (no relation, I don’t think), and wants me to know I’m being hoodwinked. Bamboozled. I didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on me. Etc. Says the email, Jeff, I’m sure you’ve seen the spin surrounding the Harvard Institute of Politics poll that Republicans are passing around showing them supposedly winning the youth vote. It just isn’t true. Bellow you’ll find a thoughtful
October 30, 2014
Have you ever felt so alone that you wonder if it even makes sense to get out of bed in the morning?
If you haven’t, be thankful. My Mother is terminal. Today, she’s back in the hospital because this morning she couldn’t put any pressure at all on her right leg. And I feel like there’s nothing I can do to keep her from passing away penniless and with the knowledge that her only biological child ripped her off and left her to rot while he spends her money — most of
October 30, 2014
If you aren’t freaked out by what was done to Sharyl Attkisson…
… then we are well and truly fucked. Hell, even most of the journalists who have been systematically denied access to the White House and fed nothing but talking points and manufactured lies — not to mention had their phones tapped, in the case of the AP reporters — haven’t seemed to mind all that much. Living in the old East Germany under the Stasi — only with specialty markets
October 29, 2014
The arrogant decline of representative government in a nutshell
Don’t feel like answering questions? Simply don’t show up for your debate. After all, the rubes are stupid, and name recognition and incumbency are what win elections, not policy positions or character, right, Senator Hagan? North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude E. Pope, Jr. put it well: “Senator Hagan works for the people of North Carolina – and they expect her to show up for work. Tonight, she had an
October 29, 2014
Cory Gardner stole my jimmies!
Yes, this is an actual NARAL ad aimed at Republican Senate candidate Cory Gardner, who has famously advocated for over the counter birth control. And yes, it is meant to be taken seriously. Here’s the caveat: if you are actually someone who does take it seriously? You should really consider having your tubes tied or your uterus removed entirely. Or put another way, please, for the love of God, don’t
October 28, 2014
Water is wet, fire burns and Obama Administration hates Israel [Darleen Click]
Like, so what else is new? The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname. This comment is representative of the gloves-off manner in which American and Israeli