Tag Archives: Anger and Rants

If you ever use the construction “I’m not a _____, but….”, rethink what you’re saying before you say it publicly. “I’m not a bigot, but Muslims at the airport scare me” is an asshole thing to say. And so is … Continue reading →

I saw someone on another blog yesterday comment that “you can’t equate not supporting gay marriage with hating gays”. I thought that a very odd statement: “I don’t hate gays, you see! I just don’t want them to marry. Or … Continue reading →

A while back, my friend Kerry had her second baby, and she gave birth in an unplanned home birth. Shortly thereafter, she rode the ambulance with the baby to the hospital for follow-up stuff and…all the stuff they do with … Continue reading →

This may offend some, actually, but it seems a valuable service to me: someone’s collecting instances of people using the ‘N’ word on Facebook, and blogging them. Racism is always depressing when I encounter it, but what’s really saddening here … Continue reading →

This can’t be true. No city can possibly be this stupid. It goes like this: Philadelphia is, like just about every city out there, having money problems. Philly has bloggers. Philly gets the idea that since any blog can have … Continue reading →

I can’t stop reading Gregg Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, even though he invariably says something in each installment that is so staggeringly full of crap that I end up wondering if he throws it in there just to see … Continue reading →

(Warning: I’m annoyed and political here.) Rand Paul has some awesome advice for the unemployed: “As bad as it sounds, ultimately we do have to sometimes accept a wage that’s less than we had at our previous job in order … Continue reading →