Saturday, April 24, 2010

Annual event

If you happen to have arrived here after being one of the many well wishers who were informed that they were mistaken about my birthday, thank you for keeping my blog the first result from the search for 'oldest 14 year old.' On this, the fourteenth anniversary of the fourteenth time since the fourteenth recurrence of my fourteenth birthday, it seems appropriate to acknowledge your good wishes. But I am STILL fourteen!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

It Can't be said better - Truth in Labeling - will have political content

I must say that I enjoy a good piece of snark and the main reason I read Balloon Juice regularly is because when the deal the snark, it really peels paint....

And all over one can hear the sons of the Confederacy recite their talking points that the Civil War was not about slavery. They insist that the system of human bondage was a side issue. And as I look at the record of the Republican Confederate Party in recent times and the history of the Confederate Party regardless of its political host over the last 150 years—I am ready to admit that there is a bit of truth to their POV.

The Confederacy really wasn’t about slavery. That was just a tactic. The real issue was finding the best way to steal the labor of others.


Confederate History Month: Stolen Labor by Dennis G. at Balloon Juice

Friday, April 9, 2010

It Can't be said better -

"I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care [and] for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they're saying, 'Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate.' And America saw that and said,
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'I think I'll go with the calm black man.'"


---Bill Maher