Archive for December, 2009
New Philly Weekly: Pervert Cops and Cover-Ups
It doesn’t matter if you’re a parent or not: the streets of this city should be flooded with vomit at the revelations about Officer Tyrone Wiggins, who allegedly raped a young girl for 8 years, beginning when she was 12 years old.
Go read the rest: talk about the shame of the city.
Word to the Wise
Sam is visiting, so I’m not really doing too much blogging this week. However, there’s some good stuff brewing. Later this evening, I’ll be writing about our adventures with US Airways’ incompetence, as well as their surely deliberate failure to implement a complaints department (amazingly, only accessible via FAX, I shit you not).
Also, for [...]
Is Max Baucus Drunk?
Via Susie, the charming basis for a negative ad:
Now, i have no proof Baucus is shitfaced on expensive bourbon. I wasn’t there, I didn’t smell his breath, and I doubt he took a breathalyzer.
But just watch that performance and tell me that Baucus doesn’t look and sound like he’s polished off a couple of pints [...]
Festivus!
I kind of feel like I’ve spent the year celebrating Festivus, at least the part of airing my grievances. All I need is my aluminum pole, and then Christina and I will engage the Feats of Strength: until she pins me, Festivus isn’t over!
Read More..>>The Audacity of Lies
This has to rank up there with “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” in terms of blatant falsehoods that are easily disproved.
Memo to Obama: there’s this thing called “the Internet” which functions as a repository for public statements.
It’s that kind of audacious lying that destroys presidential credibility.
Hey, Look! The Democrats Do Something Good for a Change!
Via Dan Savage, the feds end the ban on needle exchanges:
For years, needle exchange programs in three dozen states have provided clean needles to intravenous drug users as a way to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. But the programs have relied solely on state and local funding because of a longtime ban [...]
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again
Yesterday, Barack Obama made an extraordinary claim: “I didn’t campaign on the public option.” Think Progress adds:
– In the 2008 Obama-Biden health care plan on the campaign’s website, candidate Obama promised that “any American will have the opportunity to enroll in [a] new public plan.” [2008]
– During a speech at the American Medical Association, [...]
Jane Hamsher Goes on Fox and Friends, Kossacks Freak.
Jane Hamsher goes on FOX and Friends, gets condemned by Kossak who didn’t even see it.
Jane’s response:
In 2000, the Republicans passed Medicare Part D, and it had no negotiation for prescription drug prices. And then in 2006, when the Democrats took over Congress, the first thing they did was say “hey, we’re going to [...]
Apologies…
I just fired up the blog for the first time in a few days and saw Kinmo’s posting hoping that I’m OK. That’s what happens when you stop posting for awhile. I apologize for dropping off the face of the internets, but I’ve been pretty busy doing things in the physical world.
I’m fine [...]
4:30 at the ER
I have chronic asthma, and yesterday I made the stupid mistake of leaving my inhaler at work. I knew I should have turned around and grabbed it before leaving, but I was pretty sure I had enough in the extra one I have at home. Big mistake.
So I called up CVS and tried to [...]
