Brain-dead moral equivalence
Colman McCarthy at the Washington Post:
The Constitution is just too confusing!
Well, it is for Ezra Klein, one of the Washington Post’s bloggers. You see, it’s over 100 years old and the language is just too confusing:
Report: Sanitation union deliberately slowed down snow plow efforts in NYC
The New York Post has an explosive report this morning on how the Sanitation Union deliberately slowed down snow plow efforts in NYC as a form of “payback” of sorts for Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s budget cuts:
California: Brown’s austerity budget?
The LA Times has an interesting article today about incoming Governor Brown’s proposed budget – interesting mainly for what it hints at and leaves out, and secondarily for a bit of media bias. First, the proposal:
VIDEO: Modern day “feminism” in a nutshell
Where has this video been all my life? Coulda saved me a lot of time and effort explaining the hypocrisy, duplicity, moral bankruptcy, and radicalism of modern day so-called “feminists.” 🙂
Zimbabwe: real harm done by WikiLeaks
There are thankfully few genuine hell-holes among the nations of the Earth. One of them is, of course, North Korea. Among the others, Zimbabwe has to be among the worst. After years of horrific misrule that has turned what was once the breadbasket of southern Africa into a Dystopia of starvation and fear, some hope arrived in 2009 when the government of dictator Robert Mugabe was forced to enter a coalition government with Morgan Tsvangirai, a democratic reformer. It was just a glimmer, but it nonetheless held out the possibility of restoring democratic government to Zimbabwe, fixing its trashed economy, and healing its brutalized people.