Yep

Pretty much how it looks from my POV too. Now look, this is all playing out very much as we thought it would over here at AFEP, but that doesn’t make it good. Let’s put what’s happening in bullet point form as it is my preferred presentation method. We (the “citizens”) can’t pay off our mortgage, credit [...]

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RQ: “Be the random guy”

The Red Queen speaks (and I concur): I don’t have to imagine too hard how relieved a non het person might be sitting in that office and hearing someone who is not them calling out a douchebag on their douchebaggery. I think if some random dude ever told a street harraser that it’s not my [...]

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Not surprised

Given BP’s track record on reporting  the volume of the oil spew, this doesn’t surprise me. The department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement announced Wednesday that the company had submitted inaccurate royalty rates and prices and “reported well production on leases other than those to which the production is attributable.” [...] According [...]

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Who the hell are their Ad Men? Oh wait, maybe that’s it.

You have got to be kidding me. From my inbox. Spirit Airlines unapologetically released an offensive new advertising campaign that shockingly managed to simultaneously exploit women AND the biggest environmental disaster in North American history. Unfortunately this is just par for the course for this discount airline. For years they’ve spent their advertising dollars demeaning, [...]

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Be a man!

Kathleen Parker’s latest is so awful I hardly know where to start. If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president. If Parker had written a piece like Ellie Smeal of Ms. did back in the day extolling the virtues of our “feminist president” (absent [...]

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The era of responsibility

But that’s just for us. Not them. Vastleft: Do not ask where the buck stops, the buck stops at the bottom. “Looking forward not backward,” pardons, bailouts, and golden parachutes are the just rewards for being at the top of the totem pole. Who belongs at the business end of the wagged finger and the [...]

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RIP: Robert Byrd

CNN: While he set two endurance records in Congress, he was only proud of one in the end. The other was for his 1964 filibuster against the Civil Rights Act, when he spoke for 14 hours and 13 minutes in an effort to derail the law. He opposed civil rights when he first ran for [...]

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Pat Conroy: Perfect doesn’t just mean happy

I’m currently reading South of Broad.  It is exquisite. A snippet: Then I cracked like a pane of glass, and the twins broke with me. They cried to see me cry, as hard as I did. My tears mingled with the saltwater of the tides, until there were no more tears, and all the tides [...]

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Now I really want to move to Iceland

This is fabulous.  Would that we could take a page or two out of this playbook. Last month, in the depressed aftermath of the country’s financial collapse, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik’s elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Gnarr — who also promised a classroom of kindergartners [...]

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More on the Gulf Oil Kill – The relief wells and echoes of Australia

  From McClatchy:  Today, BP announced that it has begun using sensitive electronic equipment to detect differences in the rock’s electromagnetic field in an effort to pinpoint the metal pipes inside the wellbore. Based on what they find, they’ll make adjustments every few hundred feet in an effort to intercept those pipes and kill the [...]

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