“If that was ever a problem, we have over-fixed it.” Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other Republicans take to the Sunday news shows to defend their attempts at union busting—and blithely attempt to minimize the average worker’s historical misery.
What’s really going on here is fairly transparent, but Frank Rich at the NYT sums it up so nicely: “The real goal is to reward the GOP’s wealthiest patrons by crippling what remains of organized labor, by wrecking the government agencies charged with regulating and policing corporations, and, as always, by rewarding the wealthiest with more tax breaks.”
And if there’s an object lesson in why men with means might want to buy a government more to their liking, it’s the boom, pun intended, of a natural gas drilling technique known as “hydrofracking.” Fattened with lucrative campaign contributions, politicians pretend that millions of Americans aren’t chugging carcinogens. (This long story in the Sunday New York Times, despite its Oscar-friendly timing, fails to mention a Best Documentary nominee, Gasland, that’s forced bigger media to confront the issue.)
Violence and unrest (not these guys) continues in the usual places in Africa and the Middle East. Oman has joined the ranks of nations in revolt. In Libya, rebels are closer and closer to the gates of Tripoli. Jordan’s offer of reforms are spurned. And another protest in Tunisia has ousted another leader.
Call it Charlie Sheen Week. He’ll be given yet another platform to display his unwellness this week, on Good Morning, America and 20/20. Tastes of the continuing meltdown are set for tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony.
Oh, yeah. That’s right. The Oscars. Yawn.
Some women really are suckers for a man in uniform. From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” files, it seems some enterprising thieves woo women on Facebook—and get them to open up their bank accounts—by pretending to be hunky-yet-sensitive Yankee doughboys.
It’s a fixer-upper, but scientists might finally have picked the spot where, one day, men and women stationed on the moon will go cinematically insane.
The historical Jesus. Pinko peasant crusading against oppression? Or fatalistic necromancer who liked to feed and water his friends? What one scholar says: “I cannot imagine a more miraculous life than nonviolent resistance to violence. I cannot imagine a bigger miracle than a man standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square.”
Why attend Reed College when you can attend the University of Redwood? Content on the latter school’s website bears a striking familiarity to the former’s. And Reed officials obviously smell a scam.
THE WORLD IS SAD. BUT I AM NOT! OKAY?
Re: soldiers: Many of them are from the South, and might not appreciate being called “Yankee doughboys” or Yankee anything for that matter.
Re: Jesus: Nonviolent? Are we talking about the guy who “made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; [and] scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.”? (See John 2:15):
http://bible.cc/john/2-15.htm
Re: Charlie Sheen: Don’t want to hear any more from him or about him. Someone should make a whip out of cords and drive him out of Hollywood. Mel Gibson, too, while they’re at it.
Anyway, Jesus never stood in front of any Roman tanks. “Render unto Caesar” and all that.
So where is everybody today? At church?
YEAAAHHH, OR WONDERING WHERE`S THE CONTACT PHONE NUMBER FOR THE DANCER GUY, TO SPICE UP PARTY’S…HES IS SO GOOD THAT AT ONE POINT, I WAS LOOKING FOR AN ON-OFF- SWITCH ON HIS BACK. WHEN HE DID THE SLIPPERS THING. WHICH IS A GOOD THING.
AM GOOD AT THIS, THE OTHER SPICE UP PARTY DUDE I WANTED TO CONTACT WAS THE TRON SUIT MAN. LIKE 3 YEARS AGO. I STILL THINK HE`S ONE OF THE AWESOMEST ON THE INTRANET, AND LIKE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
NOW, WITH THE JESUS ISSUE, WHEN I SAW IN TV THAT AT THIS TIME THE NEW SCHOLARS ARE THINKING THAT HE HAD A SECRET PACT WITH JUDAS ASCARIOT, I JUST SAID FUCK IT AND STOPPED WONDERING IF THE MANNA THINGIE BREAD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS MADE FROM SUPER ADVANCED TECHNICAL MACHINES, AND IF THE “STORMS WITH CHARIOTS OF FIRE COMING DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS” WHERE UFO`S OR GODS.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THE NEW THEORIES ABOUT THE “FUNCTIONS” OF THE PYRAMIDS ARE PRETTY INTERESTING AND ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE. I HOPE “THE GUYS” OR WHOEVER DON`T BLOW THEM UP.
Honey, what should we do with our old tv now that we have a flat screen? Put a doily on it!