Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our country’s finances. They’ve been instructed to devise a plan that reduces the 10-year deficit by at least $1.5 trillion. It’s vital, however, that they achieve far … Continue reading
Twenty years after riots erupted between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, newcomers — including hipsters, Latinos and Asians — are calming old racial divisions. In the years that have passed, the central Brooklyn neighborhood has settled into an uneasy … Continue reading
via failblog.org So much wrong here… A baby with pubes… Calf hair… Suspender-shaped-pit-hair… Belt-shaped hair… Just… Ummmm… Oh screw it, why bother?
Welfare and affirmative action are traps. They tell the recipients that they are getting special treatment because they can’t compete on equal terms. After a while, the recipients come to believe they really are inadequate and that they genuinely need … Continue reading
Building tracks for the first section of California’s proposed high-speed rail line will cost $2.9 billion to $6.8 billion more than originally estimated, raising questions about the affordability of the nation’s most ambitious rail project at a time when its … Continue reading
via passiveaggressivenotes.com Un-fucking-real. I hope the jerk that wrote this clutches his chest in agony and it takes one of those “indulgent” people to save his ass.
Knicks fans right now who saw that title are going, “Impossible! No one is worse than Charles Smith!” I beg to differ.
Dinner started off simple enough, three friends in their mid-thirties catching up on each other’s lives. One was a married mom of two kids. One was a newly married woman, pregnant with her first. And one was a single woman … Continue reading
Those of us who believe in freedom have made the choice to compromise with evil. We’ve argued with the oppressors about how much theft is acceptable. We haven’t been faithful to the truth as we’ve known it. We’ve allowed ourselves … Continue reading
The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair has resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old African-American who reportedly told investigators he targeted whites. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was asked on … Continue reading
Keynesian. Only an idiot believes this. If you’re looking for a job, how much less selective would you be about where you end up working if you know that you have no income until you find one? The fact that … Continue reading
Police in Spring Hill arrested a local music teacher Thursday morning after he was caught engaging in a sex act with a doll outside a local elementary school. Officers were called to Allendale Elementary School on Prescott Way in Spring … Continue reading
On Michele Bachmann and questions about tension between them: “Just because there may happen to be two women in the race, that they would you know as Michele had put it once, get in the mud and engage in some … Continue reading
The U.S. will cut $100 million in American aid money to Palestinians in Gaza if the territory’s Hamas rulers continue with “unwarranted audits” of local American nonprofit organizations, a state department official said Friday. The American threat came in response … Continue reading
Often in discussions about abortion, anti-abortion people are asked “What about cases of rape and incest?” The implication, of course, is that no one should be traumatized by making them carry a child they didn’t intend upon conceiving. I’m torn … Continue reading
Dear Republican Presidential candidates: All of you tell me that the dire economic situation in this country is the most pressing of issues. That our very existence as a nation lies in the balance. I agree. However, if it’s so … Continue reading
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its workforce by 20 percent and to withdraw from the federal health and retirement plans because it believes it could provide benefits at a lower cost. The layoffs would be … Continue reading
As you know, you have a puzzling “open letter” to Janette Sadik-Khan on your editorial page today, in which you take on the subject of the pedestrian/cyclist swap on the Manhattan Bridge. It’s so incoherent, the only reason for publishing … Continue reading
That’s impressive, no doubt.
Watch Gingrich smack the crap out of Chris Wallace here… That’s a question in a Presidential debate? I don’t expect much from Wallace who, for whatever reason, thought it was acceptable to ask a candidate “Are you a flake?” but … Continue reading
This is how househunting feels to me.
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Getting… Sleepy…