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May 2015
May 30, 2015
Anti-Liberty Democrats FUC-ing California [Darleen Click]
For a brief few months at the end of last year, I thoroughly enjoyed paying around $2.50 per gallon of gas. Currently, local prices in the Inland Empire of So Cal are hovering around $3.80. In Los Angeles, it is over $4. We have the highest priced gas in the nation by more than $1/gal. And it isn’t just about our “summer blend” or that our Watermelon Greens have made
May 29, 2015
“We know what happens when you criticize Muhammad, we know how some people react to that.” [Darleen Click]
Washington D.C. Metro surrenders to potential Assassin’s Veto U.S. News (Steven Nelson) reports: The mass transit authority that oversees commuter buses and trains in the nation’s capital is banning issue-oriented ads for the remainder of the year after receiving an ad proposal featuring a cartoon of Muhammad, Islam’s central figure. […] It’s hard to characterize this, I think, as speech derogatory of Muslims in general as people (though such speech
May 29, 2015
With apologies to Led Zeppelin and music lovers everywhere [McGehee]
There’s a lady who’s shown all about her is known And she’s buying a stairlift to heaven. When she gets there she knows, on the Sunday news shows With a word she can get who she came for. Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairlift to heaven. There’s a sign on the desk but she wants to be sure ‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. In
May 28, 2015
Feminist Greer attacks Elton John; decries ‘deconstruction of motherhood’ [Darleen Click]
Now I don’t know why Germaine Greer is so surprised … Speaking at the Hay Literary Festival, Greer accused the men of “deconstructing motherhood”, criticising them for the fact that Furnish was listed as mother on their children’s birth certificates. “Sometimes I think that really the problem is the concept of motherhood, which we can’t give any real structure to,” she said. “Sir Elton John and his ‘wife’ David Furnish
May 28, 2015
#SomeBlackLivesDontMatter [Darleen Click]
Remember Baltimore? The city of “over-policing” where Freddie Gray’s death resulted in the controversial indictments of six police officers? Well, the police have decided to take a more laid-back approach and, via Bob Belvedere, there have been 36 homicides so far this month. “I’m afraid to go outside,” said Perrine, 47. “It’s so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside. People wake up with shots through their windows.
May 28, 2015
Of course, Alice Goffman could just be making it all up [Darleen Click]
Steven Lubet does an old-fashioned journalistic review of sociology’s newest heart-throb, Alice Goffman and her book, ON THE RUN: Fugitive Life in an American City, revealing a confirmation bias that never even thought to vet the specifics. On the Run is the story of the six years Goffman spent conducting an ethnographic study in a poor black community in West Philadelphia. Beginning in her sophomore year at the University of
May 26, 2015
BREAKING: Rockets fired into Israel from Gaza [Darleen Click]
… and Hamas claims they have no idea who is doing it… GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Hamas official says unknown militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel. Israeli officials say there was no damage or casualties. The official says at least one rocket was fired Tuesday night and that it wasn’t clear who fired it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t