Mark Morford, best damn columnist around, has a piece in the SF Chronicle today about the demise of organic food. Demise, as in: so spectacularly successful it’s failing. It’s simple, really: any trend that WalMart decides to run with is a trend that is about to turn very toxic very fast. But the problem is…
Category: Random Rants
“We live in a global world.” Thank you, President George W. Bush, for those words of wisdom. It’s so nice to have a Preznit who can edumacate us on the complexities of modern life. When he’s not busy telling fart jokes to his staff, of course. The profound insight was shared during a talk Thursday…
I’ve harped on this issue before — I guess you could call it an obsession of mine. So here I go again: I can’t stand the notion of people hurting kids in any way for whatever reason; moreover, callous indifference towards the suffering or death of kids is guaranteed to get me really riled up.…
It’s a match made — literally — in heaven. Just reading up on the latest GOP nonsense. Apparently our corrupt, incompetent Speaker of the House who is about to resign because of his total failure to do anything other than cover up for his friends in the massive GOP pedophile scandal, Dennis Hastert (R –…
I’m sorry, but it’s just really hard to take people like, say, the Pope seriously, in spite of his kick-ass hat. I mean, I really appreciate the effort to accomodate unbaptized kids; it’s quite compassionate to deem it necessary to give those unfortunate little almost-sinners a vaguely uncool playground just outside heaven where they can…
“Allright, boys and girls, you open your books to page 93 while I cover you…” Wisconsin State Representative Frank Lasee (R – duh!) wants to make it legal for teachers and other staff to carry guns. Not sure how he sees such a step as minimizing the damage guns are already causing in our schools; …
There’s a great thread over at Firedoglake discussing Rep. Reynolds’ (R-Denial) use of children as props at his recent press conference to fend off questions regarding his role in PageGate. Joyce in comments mentioned the similarity with Saddam Hussein’s use of young Brit Stuart Lockwood in August of 1990. Okay, a bit extreme, perhaps, but…
How appropriate. Just as Congress passes the Torquemada Act and we hear that the head of the GOP Missing and Exploited Kids Caucus is a known (to the GOP anyway) sexual predator, we get this headline in the New York Times on Saturday: “In Many Public Schools, the Paddle Is No Relic.” “[…] used properly,…
The story is just sad in every way, shape and form. Sydney McGee, a 28-year veteran teacher from Frisco, Texas, whose art program apparently was one of the major selling points of the Fischer Elementary school, has been effectively fired by the school board when the parents of a 5th grader protested after their child…
Remember this complete moron? Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R – Clueless) on The Colbert Report some months ago, failed to list the Ten Commandments after having co-sponsored legislation hyping their importance. It was completely priceless, and I couldn’t help but wonder how on earth a spectacularly dim bulb such as Westmoreland could possibly outdo himself. Well,…
