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Other Countries Have Healthcare and Schools, We Have This

This morning I went on a bit of a tirade on Twitter about this sequestration nonsense. Rather than try to rearrange it into a coherent post — a waste of time because how do you make coherence out of something … Continue reading

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After Newtown

Being in front of the computer all day Friday, watching the day’s events unfold, was awful. The situation just kept getting worse and worse, the number of victims higher and higher. There was plenty of misinformation going around, but the … Continue reading

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Loud Music Used to Just Be a Forty Dollar Fine

After Obama’s re-election, handgun sales predictably went up. That’s because, as usual, the NRA had gun owners in a lather about Obama taking guns away and such and so forth and their supporters went out and did the work for … Continue reading

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Rodney King, Dead at 47

The important lesson of Rodney King: if you’re ever having the shit beaten out of you, lie perfectly still and take it, or it’s your fault.

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Welcome to Post-Racial America

Trayvon Martin in his scary black man incarnation I haven’t talked about the Trayvon Martin shooting here, largely because it and such things have made me sick to my stomach. In case you somehow have not heard, on the night … Continue reading

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See, Liberals Don’t Feel Pain the Same Way Humans Do

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If the Protest is So Stupid and Ineffectual, What’s the Justification for This?

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (Ugh. MSNBC puts one of those stupid “We’re the reason puppies are so cute!” ExxonMobil ads before the video.)

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ALL GLORY AND PRAISE TO THE BEAM

This is something that really happened here. Springfield is now home to a steel beam from the World Trade Center, and it gave it a hero’s welcome. Those are people saluting it. I know people will accuse me of trivializing … Continue reading

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