Archive for 2010
Healthcare NOW!
On Friday, I was able to leave work a little early and visit a healthcare rally held in Newark. The event was a stop on an 8 day march from Philadelphia to Washington. The march is called The March for Melanie in honor of an activist from Philadelphia, Melanie Shouse, that recently lost her battle with breast cancer.
Melanie’s death certificate certainly said that the cause of death was breast Cancer, but it was just as much caused by a lack of healthcare.
Bipartisanship In Action! — Both Schwarzenegger and Rendell Think the GOP is Playing Politics Over the Stimulus
They were both on ABC This Week this morning and Schwarzenegger was particularly pointed in his criticism. He might as well have been describing specifically the behavior of Mike Castle showing up for every stunt check event from ARRA in Delaware:
Innovating to Zero
This is a talk by Bill Gates at the TED conference discussing the need and the challenges of getting enough renewable energy to power not only those who are energy rich now, but those who need to be energy rich. He does a nice job here, I think, in contextualizing the problem, then spends a good deal of time talking about Terrapower.
Bill Maher — Teabaggers are a Cult
Awesome. This is from the New Rules segment this week: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCr6LdGAPl0[/youtube]
Tips on Handling Climate Change Deniers
Speaks for itself, I think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nNbPWYHOA[/youtube]
Weekend Open Thread
Happy weekend everyone! I hope you’re enjoying your relatively snow-free weekend. Are you ready for an open thread? Let’s roll! Tiger Woods has started his apology tour. One blogger put together a handy flowchart to determine if that apology is intended for you. My answer was “no.” Remember the miraculous story of the man who […]
UPDATED: Schools + Student Issued Laptops + Webcams = Spying At School and At Home
UPDATE 02/20/10: This isn’t looking good for the school district. District spokesman Doug Young acknowledged yesterday that officials had remotely activated computer webcams 42 times, but only in an attempt to recover missing or stolen laptops, and never to spy on students. He said families had not been notified about the possibility that the cameras […]
Liar Liar Pants On Fire
Mike Castle has been on the defensive lately. He’s become the posterboy for Republican hypocrisy, especially the “trash and grab” strategy of trashing the stimulus while showing up to take credit for projects created by the stimulus. He comes off as quite defensive in this WHYY interview: Castle also defended himself against accusations that, while […]
Psst! Your Shallow Bench is Showing
Potential Republican Congressional candidate, Anthony Wedo dropped out of the race Friday. I believe that this leaves only Fred Cullis, the guy who had a half dozen people (mostly family and volunteers) at his announcement. They really have no one. I asked Charlie Copeland if he was running and he was pretty clear that he […]
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Wishing for a DL Road Trip Edition
There was a great article in the Philly News this week telling the world how the amazing DiBruno Bros is stepping up to add artisan bacon to its truely wondrous food offerings:
Friday Open Thread
Woohoo, it’s Friday! Does anyone have any exciting plans for the weekend? Let’s get this open thread started. On the lighter side, “20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to Make Them.” Interestingly, a lot of the recipes are from the 70s. They all look so awful, it’s hard to pick just one. Jellied […]
Metaphor Fail
Brand new Massachusetts Senator and conservative darling Scott Brown was interviewed on Fox (of course) and asked about the incident in Austin, Texas. His answer was interesting, to say the least. Seriously. The new Republican Senator from Massachusetts went on FOX News this evening and was asked about the nut who crashed his plane into […]
Falling In Love Again
George Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s. He was responsible for getting us into a disastrous war based on lies and for the worst recession since the Great Depression. For a year, Republicans had been quiet about Bush and it looked like Bush was about to be disappeared down the memory hole. […]
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