Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
WTF?
Can you believe this?
SPOKANE A Spokane woman wants to divorce her abusive husband but a retiring Superior Court judge won’t allow it while she is pregnant.
Judge Paul Bastine says case law favors the rights of the unborn child over the woman’s right to divorce.
The mother, Shawnna Hughes, claims in court records that her husband is […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
GIVING
Looky here: You can donate your frequent flier miles to tsunami relief. Via Firedoglake.
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Big Media Matt on job insecurity:
In both cases, though, the answer isn’t to go pining away for the good old days. Among other things, those good old days barely existed. The 1970s were hardly the salad years of the US economy, and if you go much further back than that you’re talking […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “What Are You Doing New Year’s?”, Vonda Shepard, “A Very Ally Christmas“:
Maybe it’s much too early in the gameAh, but I thought I’d ask you just the sameWhat are you doing New Year’sNew Year’s Eve
Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tightWhen it’s exactly twelve o’clock that nightWelcoming in […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
GOD’S WRATH
I expected this but it still makes me sick. Via Duncan.
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
DELEGATING
Oh, look. We’re going to send Colin Powell and Jeb Bush to the disaster areas in an attempt to soothe those people who were pissed off by Emperor Caligula’s indifference to their plight.
And you know what I realized? This man is, to put it mildly, not a very nice human being. Lacking in the […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
DOH
Oh. I thought that was the point:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - Emerging Republican proposals to change the way House ethics complaints are handled present a serious threat to the House’s ability to police itself, leaders of independent groups that monitor Congressional ethics say.
After a summary of the Republican plans became public on Thursday, officials of the […]
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2004
LIFE SPANS
Here’s yet another example of how the economic class of the reporter writing a story constitutes an inadvertent bias. It’s about population experts arguing about life expectancy in America, and how that affects the long-term projections for Social Security.
One expert warns the numbers are far too low, pointing to gains made in other countries […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
BLAST FROM THE PAST
The bad news is, today I fell while skating - for the first time ever - and really fucked up my back. And my neck. And my hip. Boy, did I feel like an old fart when those staff skaters in the orange parkas skidded to a halt and hauled me up […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
ON THE EDGE
So $17 an hour is the future:
Yet rarely has Geerling’s work life been so precarious.
Her costs for health insurance offered by the hospital will be $200 a month if she can’t stay on her husband’s health plan, more than five times as much as at the airline. There are no pension benefits […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
TRA LA
It’s a gorgeous day here (50 degrees) and I’m off to go ice skating and then out to dinner.
What are you up to?
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
WANTED
I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have “Dance Dance Revolution” for Playstation 1 that they don’t want anymore?
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “My Baby Thinks He’s A Train,” Roseanne Cash, “Seven Year Ache“:
Choo choo ain’t just some train soundIt’s the noise that you hear when my baby hits townWith his long hair flyin’Man, he’s hard to takeWhat you s’posed to do when Your baby thinks he’s a train?
He eats money like a […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
SHARING
We have one of these car-sharing groups here in Philadelphia, and it’s a great idea. I am all about collective action (many years ago, when our landlord put our apartment building up for sale, the tenants formed a co-op and bought it) and as someone all too aware of the downside of car ownership, I’d […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE
The Times looks at the hunt for a live customer service person:
Many consumers have developed any number of tricks for reaching a sentient being. Mr. Weinstein and others have discovered a number of techniques for outwitting the automation to reach a human, especially when confronted with the labyrinthine menus that accompany […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
ON BOARD
The AARP pushes back on Social Security privatization:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - AARP, the influential lobby for older Americans, signaled Wednesday for the first time how fervently it would fight President Bush’s proposal for private Social Security accounts, saying it would begin a $5 million two-week advertising campaign timed to coincide with the start of […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
GETTING AT THE ROOTS
From an excellent series in the L.A. Times:
Throughout this series, The Times has sought to make sense of an American paradox: why so many people report being less financially secure even as the nation, by many measures, has grown far more prosperous.
The answer, the newspaper has found, lies in the shifting of […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
REACHING OUT
The Net comes through:
At Amazon.com alone, more than 53,000 people had donated more than $3 million by yesterday evening after the company made an urgent appeal on its home page. Catholic Relief Services was so overwhelmed with Web traffic that its site crashed. Online donations to the Red Cross outstripped traditional phone banks by […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
MORE ON HEAVEN AND EARTH, HORATIO
I know there’s something to planetary effects, since I’ve been studying astrology for 25 years. But this might be news to the rest of you:
The quake was actually predicted by a team of research scholars of the Department of Applied Geology, University of Madras, with a permissible error, a week […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
PROJECTION
Carl Jung: Right again.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2004
INTEGRITY, REPUBLICAN STYLE
I have to laugh at the naive people who claimed the Republicans were all about restoring “integrity” to government:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - In the wake of back-to-back ethics slaps at the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, House Republicans are preparing to make it more difficult to initiate ethics investigations and could remove the […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2004
NUH-UH
Joshua over at The Gadflyer points out how the right wing is, as always, ever ready to use tragedy as an opportunity to take a slam at liberals.
Then the editors–ever concerned with making the world safe for Republican economic policies - used some fancy footwork to link natural disasters with those wackos who support the […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2004
THANK YOU
A reader (bless you, L.H.) who has already been more than kind sent me some of the things on my Amazon wish list for Christmas and they just arrived. I am, to put it mildly, stunned, shocked and amazed. (Did you know they actually wrap this stuff? And make the bows with real satin […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2004
LIFE IN THE BUBBLE
The Rude Pundit strikes again:
Maybe if someone informed the President that resorts filled with rich people were involved in the tsunami disaster, he’d be paying more attention. ‘Cause, you know, c’mon, this ain’t like the Bam earthquake in Iran a year ago, when it was the usual array of screaming vaguely brown […]
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