May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
16 posts
How to get a cushy job with the state.
motherjones:
1. Drop out of college.
2. Rack up multiple DUI convictions.
3. Get your dad to give the Wisconsin governor $121,652.
4. Jackpot!
(Newser via Joe.My.God.)
March 2011
23 posts
1 tag
Robert Reich: The Republican's Big Lies About Jobs... →
robertreich:
And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became the truth.
– George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town yesterday (specifically, at Stanford’s Hoover…
“O’Donnell: Has any government in the history of nuclear power plant disasters...”
– Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (via kateoplis)
“The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant....”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
THIS.
(via kateoplis)
“As far as being overpaid and underworked…I grant you, I have a week’s vacation...”
– A Letter to Gov. Scott Walker From a Wisconsin Teacher | Mother Jones h/t: PositivelyPersistentTeach (via kateoplis)
“America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe...”
– Michael Moore (via azspot)
Watchmarkcoatney:
Really nice piece on people living in an uncompleted 45-story tower in Caracas:
“I never let my child out of my sight,” said Yeaida Sosa, 29, who lives with her 1-year-old daughter, Dahasi, on the seventh floor overlooking a bustling artery, Avenida Andrés Bello. Ms. Sosa said residents were horrified after a young girl recently fell to her death from a high floor.
Some families...
“These borders - now it’s even becoming difficult to use words like America,...”
– Arundhati Roy, in “Fault Lines” on Al Jazeera, 5th May 2010 (via greatleapsideways)
Jingoism / Bushism
Jingoism is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy”.[1] In practice, it refers to the advocation of the use of threats or actual force against other countries in order to safeguard what they perceive as their country’s national interests, and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one’s own country as...
Robot Heart: sabino: I just read a comment from a... →
sabino:
I just read a comment from a 2004 article by the NY Times about the loneliest whale in the world. Scientists have been tracking her since 1992 and they discovered the problem:
She isn’t like any other baleen whale. Unlike all whales, she doesn’t have friends. She doesn’t have a…
February 2011
34 posts
“The Beast’s list of the 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010
#1 is...”
