Now can we move on?
November 2014
November 24, 2014
Decision in Ferguson reached … the drool factor threat level elevated into red zone [Darleen Click]
No announcement yet, but I’m sure the usual suspects, from professional race-baiters to Lamestream media (sometimes, one-and-the-same) are anxiously awaiting with promises of ratings and fame dancing in their heads. Unfortunately, no blizzard in the weather forecast to put a pinch in the plans of performance art post-announcement. Pity. ********************************************************* from Baldilocks So has Hurricane Race War made landfall yet? — Juliette A. Ochieng (@JulietteAkinyi) November 24, 2014
November 23, 2014
Home sweet home [updated; new posts below]
I’m back in town and after some food shopping will likely collapse and ride the next day or two out on life’s bench. I’m not sure if it’s the stress of all that’s happening or if something more specific is leaving feeling perpetually under the weather, but as I noted earlier my own health has been in the subpar range over the past few weeks. And as I now have
November 23, 2014
Not your mama’s Schoolhouse Rock [Darleen Click]
Even as this is a minor tweak at Barry, the rather deferential tone is more like a kid trying joking with a favorite uncle rather than any kind of Truth to Power dissent. The sheeple still maintain.
November 22, 2014
Is essential beauty meaningful? [bh]
Is beauty worth commenting on? (Hat tip sdferr in a test of my thoughts on putting comments into posts.) Update! From our friend, Lee: “When I was a youngster, my dad took an interest in botany. All well and good, except he wasn’t over his previous ( and perennial as it turns out) passion for photography, with predictable results. I gotta tell ya, after looking at eighteen thousand pictures of
November 22, 2014
This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned [Darleen Click]
Brendan O’Neill on the death of Free Speech in the UK. Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they
November 22, 2014
You’ve been forced to pick your ObamaCare plan, now good luck in keeping even that [Darleen Click]
Because PR is much more important than your silly liberty … Here’s a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare’s auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law’s exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you’d be moved into the lowest cost plan from the
November 22, 2014
Obama’s amnesty is like Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves … or something … [Darleen Click]
The spin ramps up … Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally. […] Particulars in Obama’s proclamation may well be changed by Americans over time. But like Lincoln’s, its provisional and limited character will have a democracy-forcing effect — spurring officials and citizens to more actively engage in a constitutional dialogue. Rather than refusing to follow the Constitution
November 21, 2014
University of California — sick, sick, sick [Darleen Click]
Not only is someone with an ISIS flag condemning America met with indifference – but the anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) comments that start almost immediately when the Israeli flag is displayed are alarming. Also, it appears that smoking a cigarette is more threatening than the ISIS flag. Also — the UC system enforcing ideological “purity” on whim and allegations as if it were run by Iranian Imams. The Microaggression Farce In
November 21, 2014
Call for aid
Hi, everyone. Just a note to let you know that my mother’s funeral was yesterday and that today we’ll be paying up her storage locker, which my brother left in arrears. The funeral and burial costs were a bit over $11k, the storage unit is $700, and we spent an additional $4500 on travel and the lawyer. My brother cashed out my mother’s life insurance account which named us all