January 2011
7 posts
the notorious granny D →
maybe there's hope for social security after all →
the decemberists' calamity song
is the best r.e.m. track i’ve heard in long long time.
21st century translations.
63 BC: luce sunt clariora nobis tua consilia omnia.
2011 AD: all ur base r belong to us.
ur monetizing it wrong.
seacoastonline won’t let me read an AP story I can find in 1000 other places unless I register with seacoastonline.
building walls =/= profit.
Beautiful April New Year's Day out there.
“If someone is snowed into their house, that’s not our...”
– The GOP Platform in one sentence.
December 2010
6 posts
Maybe NoPlows would've been
a better name for Bloomberg’s astroturf org?
windy blizzard benchmarks.
nothing better than snowshoeing deep in the backwoods, wind broken by the trees.
nothing worse than snowblowing a driveway on top of a hill, face frozen by the wind.
“When a showcase contract like Social Security is compromised, citizens’...”
– - but read the whole thing.
all i want for xmas
is to keep paying into Social Security at the rate i am now. oh well.
November 2010
23 posts
and the meek shall inherit the earth.
our slow, lame guinea hen, for the upteenth time, mysteriously returns to the coop from a multi-day absence. every time we assume she’s become a meal, or frozen, and every time wrong. the other guineas look at him (her?) like it’s no big thing.
silent E.
have olympia’s consultants come up with a catchy jingle about snowE and mainE for the write-in campaign yet?
what a country.
vermont’s moving forward on single payer, while we in new hampshire just elected a government that wants to render RomneyCa— er, ObamaCare null and void within our state border.
would the press and our elite rulers
notice or care if the TSA pat-downs were going on in trains and buses and other venues the press and our elite rulers don’t use for non-car transportation? the next time someone asks why the Village is so myopic about the economic anxieties of the Rest of Us, remember this vignette.
something seriously wrong with the Village when... →
imagine
if the Village put as much energy and interest into fighting unemployment as they do into deficit reduction plans.
a friend wonders: but isn't "Vital Center" a label...
no self-satisfaction here that my instinct to... →
where'd the "public" go in "republic"?
prevailing DC wisdom: give those with the most the least obligations.
Aweditorium.
Took awhile but apps are starting to realize the paradigm shifting potential of the iPad.
needless confusion: one more reason Axlerod and... →
Deficit reduction.
How about we strip Evan Bayh’s gummit-run salary and benefits before we start stealing the Social Security money I’ve been contributing to the system my entire working life?
braun's right.
“He left the president holding the bag,” Braun asserted in a statement that also claimed Emanuel “cut and ran” on Obama when he left his chief of staff job to return to Chicago for a mayoral run.
“If Rahm abandoned the president of the United States, what makes anybody think he’ll stick by regular Chicagoans?” Braun asked.
leaving aside 1) the...
YES WE... CAN"T!
“Passenger rail is not in Ohio’s future,” the Republican said at his first news conference after Tuesday’s win over Gov. Ted Strickland. “That train is dead.”
link
nancy pelosi for minority leader! →
decadence watch.
former president glibly admits to war crime. America shrugs.
NH, 2011-2012.
it’s like craig benson threw a party, and everybody came. except craig benson.
avalanche of stoopid.
the next 48 hours will give birth to some of the dopiest things ever deposited on the intertubes. be careful where you click!
October 2010
30 posts
duncan's right. "sociopathic monster" is really... →
“Bill O’Reilly: “We have a Muslim problem in the world.”
– from the man the Union Leader thinks is deserving of an award.
bygones.
if only rand paul had a squad of paramilitary goons at hand to make a phony arrest like that bearded guy in alaska, none of this would ever have happened.
newspaper commenter tea leaves
the nh-01 gop base, as represented in their favorite haunt, newspaper comments, seem to fall into two camps now:
1) guinta is corrupt. how on earth did he become our nominee? harrumph.
2) guinta is corrupt. i’m gonna pretend i don’t know that and vote for him anyway.
i think this could fairly be described as an “enthusisasm gap.”
a new low: vote him out - he's muslim! →
““You” will be turning into a cloud of data that circles the planet like a thin...”
– the future
the union leader's juan williams moment →
jack abramoff
is the lobby’s “the elusive Mr. Snitch”? i am confused.
social security, food and drug administration,...
take your pick. Frank Guinta wants to abolish them all.
gulf between actual news and FAUX news now too... →
TRENDING: liz cheney demands apology from harry...