tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692673728219998372024-03-13T01:36:42.212-07:00Hedging My BiasesRanting, with occasional hedgehogs.Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-90840725374463231992012-02-27T14:15:00.000-08:002012-02-27T14:15:03.000-08:00Lowell and the GOP: Zealotry on ParadeConsider Meredith Marie Lowell/Anne Lowery, an animal rights activist from Ohio with a desire to kill for her cause:
Woman tries to hire hit man to kill fur-wearer: FBI
(Reuters) - An Ohio
woman who likened freeing lab animals to liberating Holocaust survivors
was being held in custody Wednesday on charges she used Facebook to try
to hire a hit man to kill a person at random for wearing furLysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-88574642816763143432012-01-03T04:19:00.000-08:002012-01-03T04:23:17.345-08:004 AM at the Privilege CafeThe blogosphere got the most fascinating New Year's present: Glenn Greenwald taking a rape analogy seriously instead of dismissing it as being too extreme a means to insult Obama supporters. To add to the joy of the season, John Cole defended him for it the next day by constructing a straw man. Imani of Angry Black Lady was the target of the initial insult, so I will point to her summary of Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-63203682009870491762011-09-15T16:56:00.000-07:002011-09-15T16:56:25.581-07:00Not All Perspectives on Race are Created Equal
By ardelfin at MorgueFile
Let me try to explain something to my fellow white people. If you're white, you don't get to have the same weight placed on your perspective of what is and isn't racist as that of a person of color. Call it unfair, but not for the reasons you think.
Why? Because we are not the targets of racism. We are the perpetrators, inheritors, and beneficiaries of racism. It is Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-56847456669710110882011-09-01T16:14:00.000-07:002011-09-01T16:14:27.007-07:00Why the GOP and Democrats are not the same to me
Photo credit: kevinrosseelfrom Morguefile
I know people who insist the Republicans and Democrats are just the same, sold us all out, etc. I used to think that myself. The last dozen years or so have disabused me entirely of this notion. I'm not saying the Democrats are angels. I just happen to know the face of hatred when I see it, and it's not looking at me with donkey's eyes.
Most recent Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-1517475621934824382011-08-24T18:06:00.000-07:002011-08-24T18:10:39.863-07:00Ain't Misbehavin' Link ListI don't stay out late, don't care to go
Wasilla City Councilman Won't Resign After Drunkenly Trashing Hotel Room
I'm home about eight, just me and my radio
Anti-Gay Ind. Legislator Caught With Boy Toy: ’I’m Not Resigning’
Ain't misbehavin', I'm savin' my love for you
Cyndi Lauper Opening Safe Haven For LGBT Youth In Harlem
Just struck me that these three came together the same day in Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-46579587596974552782011-08-14T12:31:00.000-07:002011-08-14T12:31:03.048-07:00Republican Field Shrinks By Who?
The other day, I summarized the GOP Presidential field as it stood then. I left a name or two out and added someone who hasn't declared yet but keeps being brought up because she won't shut up.
One of the names I left out dropped out today. Tim "Polenta" Pawlenty is gone. His increasingly blatant irrelevance to the base was capped by a poor showing in the mostly irrelevant Iowa straw poll.
HisLysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-22630165898003514482011-08-14T06:57:00.000-07:002011-08-14T06:57:26.764-07:00Marcus Bachmann and the Left's Other Little Problem
Last night on Twitter, I re-tweeted someone who noted that they can't stand Michele Bachmann but also can't stand the "Marcus Bachmann is gay" jokes flying around. I agree with this. The whole game is absurd to me for reasons I'll go into. I was promptly told by someone who was clearly a straight "ally" to the cause that he saw it as a valid commentary on "praying the gay away" and isn't it Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-82440558690703102942011-08-13T17:30:00.000-07:002011-08-13T17:41:59.577-07:00Killing to Save
Shorter Rick Perry: I want to run this country in order to kill it.
His call is oddly familiar to me. I live in the jurisdiction of the Sequoia Healthcare District, which had been county-run until it was sold to Catholic Healthcare West. The District board has existed ever since the sale, using funds collected for other healthcare projects as well as maintaining oversight of the hospital on a Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-59744460447159132252011-08-13T11:21:00.000-07:002011-08-13T11:21:06.796-07:00Rick Perry and Marx's Sanest StatementThe saying goes, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce." I realize quoting Karl Marx will be used against me by random conservatives. I support Obama. Being called a Marxist for it is unavoidable.
But that's also a digression. Rick Perry announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for President of the United States today. Already dubbed the Texas governor you want if GeorgeLysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-55677721668334142572011-08-09T02:59:00.000-07:002011-08-09T02:59:41.904-07:00A Brief Summary of the Republican Field, Aug 2011A moment of perspective on the upcoming Presidential race, if I may, complete with admittedly biased nicknames.
So we have Rick “Jesus Loves Me Best” Perry, Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann, Mitt “Flip-Flopping’s for Amateurs” Romney, Newt “Who?” Gingrich, Herman “Pizza Token” Cain and Rick “Don’t Google” Santorum keeping ahead of Sarah “Half-Term” Palin for the chance to face Barack "Did Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-84593234534745416142011-08-05T17:15:00.001-07:002011-08-05T17:18:03.757-07:00Hedgehog break: Paisley, one month old
Paisley, one month old, a photo by scpetrel on Flickr.I can't own hedgehogs legally, being a Californian. Our state legislature remains convinced that strange animals who can't live on their own, like pygmy hedgehogs and ferrets, are a threat to the ecosystem.
I also live in a very small apartment and have both fiscal and procedural objections to inflicting such a small space on most animals. Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-50673356115114677842011-08-05T16:36:00.000-07:002011-08-05T16:42:32.774-07:00The Litany Against Fear Gets a Little Calmer, MaybeFirst, an update on the link litany. It's spreading nearly as rapidly as the original news on our debt rating that the White House challenged Standard & Poor's attempt to downgrade our rating. As I type, it still might happen. But consider this: when S&P admits it was off in its calculations by several trillion dollars, how much worse have the armchair analyses of the debt ceiling bill Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-71735212029613849302011-08-05T15:08:00.000-07:002011-08-05T16:16:04.327-07:00The Litany Aganst Fear Link CollectionI will not fear.
Fox Nation: Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs
Fear is the mind-killer.
Limbaugh Says His Statement That Mugabe Was Obama's "Economic Role Model" Was His Latest "Media Tweak"
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
Govt Official: US Expecting S&P Downgrade
I will face my fear.
The Debt Hostage Crisis and Paul Krugman's Naivete
I will permit it Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-43849928573947016822011-08-03T01:07:00.000-07:002011-08-03T01:07:54.311-07:00Vichy Democrats: The Democrats' Powerful Negotiating AdvantageVichy Democrats: The Democrats' Powerful Negotiating Advantage See, this is the kind of analysis that needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops. The "Satan Sandwich" is what the Republicans are going to eat far more than the Democrats will. I think you'd call what the Dems will eat a beehive sandwich. Hurts, won't kill them, and there's the sweet taste of honey from watching the Republicans choke Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-569267372821999837.post-10684155435159565382011-07-27T23:47:00.000-07:002011-07-27T23:47:13.782-07:00Starting with a bang against a beerIt took a business decision that is typical yet highly annoying for me to break out of my inertia about starting a current events/politics blog. Some things just demand comment, and I prefer to step away from my usual and older haunts to do it.
It would seem, based on various sources, that women don't drink as much beer as men. This is likely; there are countries where the dominant culture has Lysanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11624205720202491058noreply@blogger.com2