Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral No. 100

Posted on June 5, 2011 in Roundup

“My father, who hated guns & had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” ~ Harper Lee

Weinergate. Weinergate is the latest waste of time by a media that should be chasing down corruption instead of sex scandals. ((My friend Milt Shook on Twitter tweeted “Was just told “we have to get answers” re Weiner prank. Really? Or WHAT will happen? The republic will crumble? Ppl need to get a grip….GOPers are trying to kill Medicare, taking food away from poor, refusing to help tornado victims. Pardon if I don’t care abt a dickpic.)) Someone told me that we can’t assume that [[Anthony Weiner]] ~didn’t~ send that impressive photo to that woman because we have only his word that he was hacked. ((Guilty unless proven innocent, anyone?)) I promptly responded that we only have ~his~ word that he is not a cannibal. I haven’t seen firm proof that Weiner wasn’t hacked — it is too neat that many of his accounts turned up with the same crap at the same time and that the guy who “outed” him turned up on Twitter on April 11 and has hit on Weiner incessantly ever since. (See the Smoking Gun article below for other strange details.) I made the crack that the Tea Party followers were after Weiner because his wife looked better than theirs. “Oh, that’s just so deep” said one reactionary tweeter who had, as her avatar, an unflattering photo of [[Michelle Obama]]. No, of course they don’t judge on appearances.

• Are taxes in the U.S. high or low? — Proving once more that the GOP is run by lying rich crybabies. Also see this article on whether the poor pay taxes or not.
• The Wolfe At Anthony Weiner’s Front Door — It’s looking more and more like a GOP operation. Check out this report on the planning of the attack on Weiner. The goofs did it right out in cyberspace for everyone to see!
• The Mistake of 2010 — Other than electing the Tea Party, which was also bad for jobs.
• Should Coulda Woulda — The White House is so busy playing politics, it isn’t fixing the economy
• The Problem of Republican Idiots — Maybe we are worrying about the wrong people? I wonder if Michelle Bachmann & Sarah Palin serve to discredit women in politics.
• The Making of a Monster — Srebrenica is all because this man’s daughter shot herself with his favorite gun — what was she trying to tell him?
• The NCAA and Jim Tressel: Giving Eric Cartman the Moral High Ground — College sports makes college a joke.
• Why the Jefferson Memorial Dancers can dance alone in their room. — I don’t agree with the assertion that the activity was fatuous, but this is a good discussion of what makes civil disobedience a powerful tool.
• Too young to wed: The secret world of child brides — Also see this article about a 10 year old being sold into prostitution.
• Malta votes to legalize divorce — Now only the Phillippines yokes people for life, adultery and domestic violence be damned!
• How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question — Can you guess it?
• God is not a Christian — Wise words by Nobel Prize Winner Bishop Desmond Tutu
• Movin’ Meat: The Deadliest Cough Syrup — How do you overdose on homeopathic cough syrup? By adding too much water?
• Students Struggling With Math May Have a Neurocognitive Disorder Called Dyscalculia: Disorder Affects Roughly as Many People as Dyslexia — Abstract math is very hard for me, but I did fine at geometry.
• Japan Earthquake Appears to Increase Quake Risk Elsewhere in the Country
• 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor — Yes, they have such an easy time of things. Tell the Tea Party to go – well, you can guess.