The One who got away, and other random tweets
Some random tweets I bookmarked this past week. In no particular order. The One who got away: My artist rendering of what the dude would look like without the backward baseball cap....
View ArticleWhich church would that be?
From Janet: Sending you a photo of bumper stickers. I saw this car parked next to a Unitarian church in Boston. : )
View ArticleStrangest “reportedly” true actually true Boston Marathon Bombing fact
Surely this could not be actually true. At best “reportedly” true? seriously the Czech Republic had to issue statement that they are not Chechnya?National “Education” Association: YOU OWN THIS...
View ArticlePolitically correct epistemic closure counterattacks Boston Marathon bombing...
Beginning Monday there had been a non-stop attempt to pin the blame for the Boston Marathon bombing on the “right wing” and Tea Party. It wasn’t so much an argument based on facts as a hope based on...
View Article“Not Even At Step 1″ Week at College Insurrection
Not really into that Coxexist stuff on campus: Kangaroo courts for men on campus U. Buffalo Prof in profanity-laced tirade against pro-life students Pro-Life Display Vandalized at Slippery Rock...
View ArticleWould Seals and Crofts be allowed to sing Unborn Child on campus?
As frequently reported at College Insurrection, pro-life students on campus regularly are accosted by faculty and other students, their displays torn down, their speakers shouted-down, and their...
View ArticleThere oughta be an award for this
Maybe the David Sirota Award? “xaxnar” diarist at Daily Kos, April 16, 2013, The Right Wing Media Is Nervous: Charles P. Pierce noted today that the conservative media wing nuts are freaking out over...
View ArticleThe Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know
After a nation watched in suspense as events unfolded this week surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings and the ensuing manhunt for the suspects, we now await the details in our quest to understand...
View ArticleBranco Cartoon – Hard Boiled
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View ArticleDubious Thatcher-Palin story fixed by @TheFix
On April 9, 2013, at 9:37 a.m., I ran a post .@TheFix and @FixSean run dubious Thatcher/Palin story, fail to correct about the failure of The Fix blog at The Washington Post, run by Chris Cillizza, to...
View ArticleMideast Media Sampler – 04/22/2013 – The Syrian red line and Israeli innovation
1) The red line? Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians. Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against...
View ArticleSalon.com: Look, White Caucasian Boston Bombing Squirrels!
No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a “white American” was responsible, and...
View ArticleWorst Boston Bombing prediction in one image
And you thought it was bad here. Via Tim Blair’s blog (h/t sdog), an image that ran last Friday morning in the Sydney Morning Herald, as part of a column praising Obama for not jumping to conclusions...
View ArticleUnsealed Complaint and Affidavit – U.S. v Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Criminal charges were filed against Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While news reports indicate the Complaint and supporting Affidavit are sealed — a Magistrate Judge just granted a request...
View ArticleCanadian terrorist plot foiled — arrests made (Update – supported by al-Qaeda...
Via CBC News (h/t Hot Air): Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting two suspects in Montreal and...
View ArticleRIP – Richie Havens
I previously have written how I saw Richie Havens live at My Father’s Place when I was in high school, at the time we ran several of his songs as Videos of the Day in late January 2012: I saw Richie...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer sings at Wesleyan Humanities Festival, then writes...
Amanda Palmer, who grew up in Lexington, MA, is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Two days before the Boston Marathon Bombing, Palmer “performed live at Wesleyan’s Humanity Festival, a one-day musical...
View ArticlePut the 844-page Immigration Bill on ICE for a while
And the reason we need “immigration reform” urgently is? I’m getting very uncomfortable with the rush to vote on an 844-page bill. Let it hang out in the air for a while. If it doesn’t stink, the fresh...
View ArticleJudge tosses several counts against #Gosnell, many others remain
The prosecution needs to prove its case against Kermit Gosnell beyond a reasonable doubt on each and every count. Apparently it did not do that on some counts, particularly 1st Degree Murder as to...
View ArticleFight Over Online Sales Tax Bill Heats Up in Senate
The issue of the online sales tax is heating up in the Senate these next few weeks, and retailers are duking it out in a very public way. Senate bill S.336, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, would...
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