First, in honor of Pat Conroy’s passing, his own eulogy of his father, the Great Santini. The essence of it: We were raised by the men who made the United States of America the safest country on earth in the bloodiest century in all recorded history. Read the Whole Thing. Second, Ace of Spades reposts… Read More Two Reruns: A Moving Tribute and a Glorious Hilarity
So that’s one thing Trump’s accomplished, as his supporters will doubtless bleat. I will not support Trump if he is the nominee. I will not vote for him. The devil you know is still a devil, and worse yet: you don’t really know him at all. The Whole Thing. Read it.
Now Nick Searcy, hilarious actor from Justified and general-purpose insult machine, has apparently felt the ban hammer. Or maybe not. Twitter’s going Full Kafka on this, explaining its actions in broad bureaucratic generalities when it explains it at all, so who the hell knows. Basically, it’s a bad time to be an outspoken conservative on… Read More Twitter Continues to Do Whatever the Hell it Thinks it’s Doing…
Scott Adams may be the only sane man on the internet when it comes to discussing the likely GOP nominee. Narcissism is more than having an over-inflated ego and a need for attention. Narcissists also lack empathy. That’s Trump all over. He has no empathy whatsoever. Sure, he says he loves wounded veterans, underemployed… Read More Trump is a Narcissist, According to None of the Definitions of Narcissism
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Moral Majority 2.0 – Brad Torgersen Let’s talk about original sin, shall we? In the beginning, there was Adam, and there was Eve. And they partook of the forbidden fruit, and were cast out of the Garden. Thus becoming mortal, and knowing the difference between good and evil. Their…
Apparently not, because the Democratic Party has Super-Delgates – Party officials – who can vote however they want, regardless of how the primary elections go. Bernie Sanders will win at least 13 of the Democratic delegates in New Hampshire and Hillary Clinton will win at least nine. Two delegates haven’t yet been allocated. In the… Read More Do Bernie Sanders’ Victories Even Matter?
This episode of the Podcast was recorded the night of the Iowa Caucuses, but my opinions on the possibility Trump/Sanders matchup has not changed. I also rant for a bit about the Oscars. Listen below, or go here to listen on Podbean, and here for iTunes.
FFS, you Ghouls: #NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50 — NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016 Stacy McCain as already asked the relevant philosophical question: Accepting for the sake of argument that humans are not continuously human from conception… Read More Has no member of NARAL ever seen an ultrasound?
From the Telegraph. (h/t Moe Lane) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – Read it as a child, I think? Parts of it, anyway. 1984 – George Orwell – Read it in high school. Reread several times. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy – JRR Tolkien – Read it in middle school. Dad made me read The… Read More How many of the Top Twenty Books People Claim to have Read, Have you actually Read?
As promised earlier, here’s a first chapter of a post-apocalyptic homage to the Masque of the Red Death. Click to read for free on Tablo!
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