It’s long been known that the Susan G. Komen Foundation and its ubiquitous Pink Ribbon campaign is equal parts scam and snake oil marketing. There’s an entire book written on the subject. SGK’s actual donations to The Cure are questionable, and the fraction of the jacked-up price of various ribbon-branded doodads that actually ends up…
Category: Random Rants
The Grand Poobah of the Vermont Chapter of Boys R’ Us, The Most Reverend Bishop Matano, joins in the sanctimonious groan over the recent Health & Human Services ruling that private health plans must provide basic family planning coverage. “[…] this grave matter, […] strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of…
I confess, I’m not quite up to date on the intricacies of Catholic bureaucratic minutiae and HR etiquette. I know Dolan now gets to wear a totally wicked hat (not that he’s really lacking in that department), and that he’s eligible to help pick the next Popenfuhrer when Ratzinger shuffles off his mortal coil. But…
Norwich, December 19th, 2011 Dear Sirs, I am writing in reference to our order #778443 of August 17th for one (1) New England Standard Winter (SKU 11442-3), pre-paid, with free delivery to our area guaranteed no later than December 15th. After our initial conversation you were kind enough to send us a sample, which arrived…
So sad to see this happen now and again. Peter Welch, who otherwise has been on quite a roll lately, just voted along with a massive majority of his fellow members of the House of Representatives to keep secret the deliberations on the Department of Defense Authorization Bill. This is the rather sizable allowance given…
Remember the crying we all did a few months ago when Borders Bookstores went bankrupt nationwide? Me neither. A stay of execution for our independent book stores before we all switch over to e-books, and one less soulless retailer on “death row” in West Lebanon. No great loss. But shortly after the last shelf had…
The Obama administration recently announced in triumph that Al Queada had been reduced to two grumpy guys with beards, guns, and some groupies. Two. Seriously, at this point, the Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee now has a significantly stronger leadership than Al Queda (no offense to the healthy eaters down South). But since the insatiable…
Kansas governor Sam Brownback claims to believe in smaller government. And he’s a strong believer in the Constitution of the United States, including the 1st Amendment bit about free speech.So much so that he went to the trouble of inserting language in a hate speech bill to ensure that pastors in churches could continue to…
AIR FORCE ONE, 11/15/11: Expressing unequivocal support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, President Obama today declared: “I want to be very clear in calling upon the local authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors. Americans have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to…
Hell yeah. Once the GOP failfest ends (and, alas, someday the fun must end), one candidate will be left standing who must run against Sir Change-a-Lot. The incumbent, in turn, needs to find something with which to fire up the masses — you know, the ones he promised this, that, and the other four years…
