Category Archives: Current Events

The rare external event worth commenting upon

Yeah, so it’s hot

You’d think they were all about to melt into a puddle of ghi like Little Black Sambo’s tigers. Continue reading

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You can’t understand what happened when you’re staring in the wrong direction

I think the true parallel to Katrina will turn out to be a much older storm—the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Continue reading

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No assault. No battery. NOT EVER.

No assault.  No battery.  No excuses.  Not right.  Not ever.  Not everNOT EVER. Continue reading

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . .”

It should be the concern of our democracy that no child shall feel uncomfortable because of belief.  This condition cannot be met if a schoolmaster is empowered to establish a standard of religious rectitude based on a particular form of worship. Continue reading

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The Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the Rant

Yes, Peter Jackson got a lot of things right.  What I’m on about are all the things they got massively wrong. Continue reading

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OIL FROM IRAQ READY TO FLOW

Petroleum To Be Piped To French-Mandated Tripoli Continue reading

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Nobody pays any attention or remembers anything

All the Chicken Littles running around the northeast (and that includes the Gummint) need to fucking GET OVER this “Terrorists!  Terrorists!  BOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGABOOGA!!!!!” response to every large-system mechanical failure that happens. Continue reading

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Now this one is just BEYOND insane

Florida governor Jeb Bush has proposed to abolish the Florida State Library. Continue reading

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From a member of the DorothyL listserv

“Fact is, Dubya is a Texan the way Alice Cooper is a woman.”

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A curious premonition

Was Something trying to tell me something? Continue reading

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