See those plants in the background of the picture below? Those are bromeliads. Here’s a closeup. They have lovely flowers, but they’re also natural traps for rainwater, and we had gallons yesterday. That means mosquitos, and boy am I chewed. We’re looking at having deck repairs done, and that involves showing contractors around. I never …
Desert Rose in our back yard, with mini-Godzilla coming up on the backstretch stem. From Events
There are very few members of the media who have had the guts to call Trump’s nonsense for what it is: racism. One who has was Bob Schieffer on the CBS Evening News last night. Commenting on Trump’s latest smear, that Obama couldn’t have gotten into Columbia and Harvard without help, Schieffer told Katie Couric, …
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That’s not much of a surprise if you’ve observed conspiracy theorists for a while. People still think the moon landing was a hoax, and don’t even mention the Kennedy assassination unless you’re prepared for ever-more preposterous “explanations” that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t possibly have acted alone. But it’s annoying that a large number of Republican …
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Brad DeLong looks at Diane Lim Rogers’s response to an item by Greg Sargent which said that Paul Ryan was no deficit hawk. Rogers disagrees, and DeLong demolishes her reasoning using Ryan’s own voting record. That in itself is worth a read, but I laughed out loud at this comment left on DeLong’s post: If …
Digby suggests that by allowing Ryan to bring his budget to the fore and then voting on it the Republicans may have gone beyond what the public will take. Doing so after their frontal assault on the Democrats in the last election with “death panels” and “pulling the plug on grandma” means that they actually …
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I thought Republicans hated Big Government. From Michigan: Under a new budget proposal from State Sen. Bruce Casswell, children in the state?s foster care system would be allowed to purchase clothing only in used clothing stores. Aside from the obvious intrusiveness into the citizens’ private lives, I imagine all the Wal-Marts, K-Marts, Targets, Sears and …
Did I ever show off my raisin bread? From Bread
The appearance of matching bathtubs in all Cialis advertisments The Bayer aspirin ad in which the guy on the plane explains to the flight attendant offering him aspirin that he’s not having a heart attack, he’s got back pain. Does any 40-something male in the English-speaking world not know that aspirin was marketed as a …