Tag Archives: Events of the Day

Stop SOPA

Would I be able to write this blog in a world where the Internet is governed by SOPA? I honestly don’t know. I strongly suspect that I would, but it would be a lot less interesting. I also strongly suspect … Continue reading

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Shut up, Joe. Just SHUT UP.

Warning: rant ahead! My God, would someone in Joe Paterno’s family just step up and shuffle the old fool off to a nursing home so he can babble at the walls or something? Doddering Old Joe has just come out … Continue reading

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A random opinion

I have to admit, folks, that I am entirely simpatico with the things that motivate the “Occupy” folks. I loathe the corporatization of America, the concentration of wealth at the very top of society, the notion that this concentration is … Continue reading

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We are….

Gregg Easterbrook writes in typically overwrought fashion about the Penn State scandal — he opines that PSU should just terminate its football program, which seems over the top even to me, and I’m about as disgusted by this as one … Continue reading

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Occupations

Kevin Drum has a great post on Occupy Wall Street. Here’s the money shot: None of this is easy. But the truth is that it’s increasingly impossible to sell people transparently self-promoting fairy tales that plainly don’t reflect how the … Continue reading

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Veterans

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Warning: profanity-laced rant below the break. Fuck Joe Paterno. I’m serious. I’ve never been a big fan of the guy, but that’s mainly because I have always found rather unseemly the Cult of the College Coach, the Towering Figure On … Continue reading

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Stop the Scourge!

It’s Election Day all across America, folks, so remember to vote and to also do your best to help prevent the horrors of VOTER FRAUD by staying vigilant at all times! Keep an eye on shifty-looking brown people who may … Continue reading

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A Very Public Service Message

Hey folks, I’ve mentioned this before on some previous Halloween’s, but I think it bears repeating. I write from my experience as a one-time employee of one of our nation’s many fine pizza-serving and delivering establishments. Basically, tonight’s Halloween, so … Continue reading

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How it works

These are good, upstanding, patriotic American citizens who are standing against what they see as decades of freedom-crushing excess, who are only fueled by their patriotic fervor and their keen knowledge of history and policy, whose every gathering — no … Continue reading

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