Friday, March 12, 2010

Breakfast reading

-To preserve the Commonwealth's sovereignty- and, apparently, having run out of rights to strip from gay Virginians- the state house has voted to deny poor people health care.

-Will libraries go the way of movie theaters, where people talk all the time and spill stuff on the floors? In the UK, libraries are being re-envisioned as "palazzos of human thought," for people who don't, actually, think much.

-Given Capitol Hill's get-along, go-along homophobia, Eric Massa's claim of naked lobbying is dubious. House Republicans, still smarting from their own harboring of Mark Foley, are shivving the Ds. 

-The New Yorker wonders why macho Mexico is more rational about marriage equality than its northern neighbor.

-Jack Kerouac would have been 88 today.

-Republicans are cannibalizing their own heritage. President Eisenhower is a Communist again, and the Cult of Ronaldus Maximus continues apace.

-Chief Justice Roberts, lionized by Savonarola for being a Republican, needs to get a life. And- like the more principled William Rehnquist- he could just stay home.

-Chait observes that the GOP has become the real socialist party: they want to cut loose the poor and give as much money as possible to the richest possible.

-A Georgia seccesh (and potential candidate for governor, not as a D, btw) who says he'd kill his own son to dissolve the Union and has had sex with a mule wants Elton John killed for the admittedly odd notion that Jesus was gay. As usual- as per Fred Phelps- no Republicans have denounced Neal Horsley as a lunatic. One you've let the Birchers back in, what's the point?

-Karl Rove says mean gay people forced him to make marriage equality an issue in the 2004 election when he just wanted to make nice with them.

-NC GOP Congressman Patrick McHenry continues to insist he's not gay. Just for the record. We take him at his word. But why do people keep asking him?

-US House Republicans have pledged to forsake funding earmarks- until they get re-elected in November.

-None of the world's 12 sexiest cities is in SC. Remove the "e" and we might have some contenders.

-The Vatican says priests should cater to the simple-minded.

No comments:

Post a Comment