When science stops telling us the facts and steps into politics: The food industry has made a fortune because we retain Stone Age bodies that crave sugar but live in a Space Age world in which sugar is cheap and plentiful. Sip by sip and nibble by nibble, more of us gain weight because we can’t control normal, deeply rooted urges for a valuable, tasty and once limited resource. What
June 6, 2012
Addendum to the bigoted Jesus-loving photographer who tried to justify the bigotry of not allowing a truly committed lesbian couple to own her for a few hours
In the progressive Utopian re-imagining of the United States, the First Amendment generally, and religious freedom especially, is truly secondary to the kind of “tolerance we” must all of us perforce adopt. Or else. Sure, that kind of turns the notion of tolerance on its head — as well as inverts the intention of the First Amendment, which was adopted to protect unpopular speech — but hey: the ends justify
June 6, 2012
“5 possible summer surprises from Obama”
Shockingly, not one of them has him officially coming out and running off with Matthew Broderick to start a Broadway-themed candy store in Vermont. Which, now that I think on it, probably won’t happen until 2013. In the spring. When the earth awakes and hope and change intoxicate the senses.
June 6, 2012
what the Walker win tells us about the political mood of the nation going forward
Nothing. Now shut up and pay your fair share so that public sector union employees don’t have to. Racists. **** update: line of the night goes to BMoe, who answers the progressive talking point “explaining” their loss: “Makes me nostalgic for the good old days of 2008 when raising more money than you opponent proved how popular you were.” I should add that owning the entirety of the press
June 5, 2012
Ok, really, I know, gloating is just wrong … [Darleen Click]
… but, what the hell, this made me giggle in a most unseemly manner … I’ll repent tomorrow.
June 5, 2012
Free Scott Walker!
Open thread to either celebrate an American spring or mourn the death of the world’s last great hope. And no, I don’t think I’m overstating things here. update: Live stream.
June 5, 2012
“Poll: 24 Percent of Americans Believe States Have a Right to Secede”
Up 10% in two years — and yet still 76% too low, if you ask me. But then, I’m one of them fringe types who doesn’t like to feel trapped in perpetuity by a central government that can control me simply by conning and/or bribing 50.1% of the population (or getting just enough electoral votes, whichever obtains). CNS: The latest poll is just one of many that shows that Americans
June 5, 2012
Dear Romney apologists and supporters:
You got played. Really, really played. And we’re all going to suffer for your party loyalty no matter the outcome of the 2012 vote — be it overwhelmingly and radically through Obama’s re-election, or slowly and techocratically through the the GOP establishment’s steady transformation into the pre-New Left Democratic Party. Congrats! Sincerely, Those who don’t believe in a ruling class, and who don’t take kindly to being treated as subjects
June 5, 2012
“CBO: Massive rise in U.S. debt crashes our economic forecasting model in 2035”
I remember Paul Ryan saying something like this, and the helpful lefty economists pointing out how such a silly, alarmist forecast didn’t account for whatever magical thinking the extremist Keynesians were engaging in at the time whereby everything is fiscally fine, Social Security isn’t insolvent, debt isn’t anything to worry about, the Constitution is a dated document of perverse anti-fairness coerciveness we no longer should be clinging to, and besides,