This story takes some explaining. Stephen and John met while they were rotting in gaol for paedophillic sex crimes. Since they had obvious common interests, they became buds - such good buds that when they were paroled they got a place together. Now, you’re thinking that maybe it’s not such a good idea to have […]
Some old British geezer has lashed out at the wealthy, joining in the international socialist chorus of jealous bastards who envy the wealthy so much that they wish them dead. The only reason I know of him is that he wrote The Lonliness Of The Long Distance Runner, which I read lots of years ago. […]
News comes that PE Obama has named Cass Sunstein as his regulatory czar. Mr. Sunstein is married to Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who resigned in disgrace after calling Hillary Clinton a monster. Well, Ms. Power is back in the Obama fold as an adviser and her husband is being tapped to provide […]
Word comes today from old Blighty that a move is afoot to give fathers up to a year’s paternity leave upon the birth of new child. Yep. One year. Three-hundred and sixty-five days. Actually the proposal is that the parents of a newborn would be given 19 months paternity leave jointly and distribute that between […]
Yesterday, I posted a link to a story about how some British gaolers think it’s too negative and punitive to call those who are imprisoned ‘inmates’. They feel that inmate is too harsh a term, and might damage the self-esteem of the poor felon. Somehow, I doubt that a person who has committed a violent […]
Quotes from The Daily Kos 17 December, 2008 (Warning - the following comments contain lots of profanity. Please don’t read or pass on if you’ll be offended by such)
Updated: I couldn’t even tolerate the appearance of all that cussin’ so I split the post before it gets really bad.
From an open thread:
They should do […]
From Democratic Underground 12/12/08
The following comments were harvested from the Democratic Underground on Friday 12/12/08. Disclaimer and warning - there is some rough language and a few threats of violence in these comments. If you are going to be offended by any of that, please skip this post.
Story about the auto bailout
WinkyDink Fri Dec-12-08 07:14 […]
