Yesterday I went to Safeway to pick up three or four things. While in the produce section I was waylaid by a bin of peaches saying seductively “Me! You want me!” So I pulled one of the little clear plastic sacks off the dispenser and picked up three of the stone fruits. I got to …
Exxon had its annual shareholders meeting yesterday in the oil-soaked region of Dallas (there was a reason JR Ewing’s ranch was outside the city), and it did some reprehensible things. Most remarkably, its CEO, a man named Tillerson, responded to suggestions from environmental activists that the company set targets for reducing carbon emissions from its …
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The woman was obnoxiously stupid, continually getting her “facts” wrong (no, lady, it was John Wayne Gacy who was born in your home town, not The Duke), but she was good comic value. Dana Milbank has some commentary on her retirement. Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo has a Top Seven List of her greatest blunders. …
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After milking the word “scandal” for about as much as it could, one of the Big Media companies sent reporters out to look at what those aggrieved Tea Party groups trying to get tax-exempt status actually did. Surprise! They engaged in politics, not social welfare! Representatives of these organizations have cried foul in recent weeks …
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With gratitude to and in memory of: Timberlake, Lewis G, b. 09/05/1924, d. 08/24/1993, CAPT USN, Plot: CT2 G-435, bur. 08/31/1993 Alford, James J, b. 03/16/1928, d. 12/20/1996, US Marine Corps, PFC, Plot: CT3-K300347, bur. 01/23/1997 Thanks, Dad and Uncle Jim.
Sheets washed and dried and folded. Potato salad and baked beans acquired. Chicken thawing. Dodgers losing lost. Anything more exciting out your way?
Towels and clothing washed and folded, sheets still to wash/dry. Dodgers leading in the 7th. Hamburger thawed for burgers and home fries dinner. How about you?
Senator David Vitter of Lousiana is a pretty sleazy guy. We know this because of his appearance in the DC Madam scandal. He somehow managed to persuade Louisiana voters that he should remain a Senator, getting re-elected in 2010. He’s apparently forgotten those voters’ act of mercy; the other day he inserted an amendment into …
Er, have all the sympathy you want for tornado victims in Oklahoma, but I suggest you save some for its poorest citizens no matter what part of the state they’re in. Here’s the background: Oklahoma Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon has pulled the plug on Gov. Mary Fallin’s plans to save the Insure Oklahoma …
There are probably more despicable clowns in the House Republican caucus than Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), but finding them would involve getting muddier than I feel like doing. Here’s a guy who’s gotten 3.5 million bucks in farm subsidies over the past two decades who is now demanding that the poor suck it up and …
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