We went to the Fremont Solstice Day yesterday with Bill Morse (the cartoon artist who draws Rhapsodies here) and our dog Moshe. For those who do not know about the Solstice Parade here, it is famous for naked bikers .. well naked but painted bikers. Mitt Romney was there this year .. more on that [...]
Archive for June, 2012
June 17th, 2012 - 9:24 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS, On Fathers Day, Forced Abortion in China
While I fully favor the right of women to control their own bodies, the problem with doctrinaire feminists (of either gender) is that they lack respect for the other side. If I believed that there was soul and that sperm + egg = person, I would side with those who oppose abortion. While I do [&h[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Software Reader Says Bible a Mashup
from Haartez Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what some researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied t[...]
June 17th, 2012 - 7:28 am § in America
Protecting Themselves: the Repubs
Has anyone ever met a poor Republican? OK, I am not sure there are poor Democrats either, at least not at the level of elected politicians. Seems like politicing is a lot better bidness than preaching … though at the top of their professions both forms of selflessness appear to me to be very[...]
June 16th, 2012 - 9:56 am § in America
Elizabeth Warren v. Scott Brown, a national debate!
The jockeying over where and when U. S. Senate candidates Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren will face off in a series of debates grew a little more complicated Friday as the wife of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 invited the opponents to a high-profile televised debate in Sept[...]
June 16th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
GOOD NEWS, PUBLICOLA lives on, news is still (somehow) surviving.
As the traditional media die, a major side effect has been the precipitous loss of reporters .. you know the pad wielding, camera carrying guys and gals who gave us Watergate. the Pentagon papers and all those juicy sex scandals? When papers can’t sell ads, they also do nto pay even the tradit[...]
June 16th, 2012 - 9:24 am § in China
CHINA: Taobao Offers Amazon a Challenge
Taobao to offer beautiful Tao Girls personally delivering Internet goods, Ingenious! Recently, Taobao is setting up a delivery/logistics company with their “Tao Girls” (淘女郎) to delivery goods purchased off the Internet. Currently hiring “Tao girls” all over the country whoever[...]
June 14th, 2012 - 12:52 pm § in Misc.
Republican calls McKenna a Rhino
from Sound Politics “I should blind myself to this dillwad’s desire to screw the community where *I* live (and HE doesn’t) and vote for that clown anyway? I should ignore it when he refers to Scott Walker “terrorizing” unions in Wisconsin and his refusal to try and brin[...]
Republican Heresy: Jeb Bush is not quite rite!
Having witnessed Republican extremism at this year’s Tacoma convention. I am now mystified. Is the moderate republican extinct or just powerless? Dana Milbank discusses comment by Jeb Bush. The fintelleigent Bush brother and successful former Florida governor, stated in public that even [...]
Seattle Needs to Replace McDermott, SOON
With all due respect to the fervent views of many Seattle liberals, the Democratic party needs to be the party of the middle class. This is the lesson of the fight in Wisconson and is especially true in today’s Seattle. The US has never elected a laboring man .. much less a woman from the [&he[...]