Two months after my layoff, the State Government has finally seen fit to start doling out my $140 a week. Huzzah!


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This morning's rant started out as a throwaway comment over at SMBIVA regarding the shooting du jour. But since this is Sunday morning, I didn't have the looming prospect of the workday to keep my spiel short. So I'm enshrining it here, with minor alterations as they occur to me ( Read more... )

Why, this is a Royal Wedding! Shame on you, Mr. John Halle! Tsk.

Two War Criminals ( Read more... )

Before you ask: No.

Not on Facebook. Not going on Facebook. I cling with all my strength to that last crumbling bit of internet anonymity as if I were the last polar bear clawing frantically at the very last fragment of the last iceberg in the sea. ( But thanks for your concern. )

It's never too late!

"...While the rise of the tea party movement demonstrates the rift between the conservative grassroots and the Republican Party, the health care debate has revealed the fault lines within the Democrats’ center-left coalition, pitting liberal and progressive activists against the party establishment... Reading these ( Read more... )

"...In the year since the last election the president has made concession after concession to drug and insurance companies, to private health care providers and their lobbyists. The White House, establishment Democrats and their echo chambers in the corporate media and even on the internet have worked hard to suppress voices advocating the simple, ( Read more... )

Dear Megalocorp HMO and/or Private Insurer Corporate Slimeball Pig-Dogs ( Read more... )

...So here are Thomasina Winslow and Marco Haber covering an old song by The Steve Miller band.

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Also, I'm really glad to see that my old pal Alan Smithee is back after a too-long absence.

As you were.

The score currently stands at Allergies: 5, ms_xeno: 0. I can't afford to go hit up my doctor for more generic antihistamines at the moment. On the bright side, I still have some prescription Sudafed [tm] left. Unfortunately, it's not the thing to take when the twin hellbeasts of Barbed-wire-throat and ZOMFG-what's-this-ten-ton-weight-lodged-a- ( Read more... )

From the Stop Me... link about Gitmo:

...So Mr Obama has sorta-kinda fulfilled one campaign promise: the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp is to be closed. Within... a year. How we would laugh at some foreigner seeking our approval with this kind of initiative. Ahmadinejad: Okay, I'll stop hanging gay guys.... Next year. But this year -- hoo-ha! ( Read more... )