last evening

aerial archeology

this is purty great ---

dealing with scoundrels redux

Federal prosecutors said Friday they are investigating whether there was "willful criminal activity" by the company that operates the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers died in an accident last month.

we're not going after the banksters the way we should, but obama laid into bp, halliburton, et.al., and the govt. regulators that let it all slide, and now this --- go get 'em, barack --- the teabaggers should be applauding, but will they? no. no they won't.

the gays vs. the olds

georgia will remain retarded for the forseeable future, but for the country as a whole, there is hope

assessing the situation

dealing with scoundrels

in addition to putting photographs of the bankers who ruined their entire country into urinals, iceland is arresting their sorry asses and filing multi-billion dollar lawsuits

"the dead zone"

sounds like some bad sci-fi or soemthing but it's what much of the gulf coast had become even before the oil due to agricultural run-off, etc. --- there before the oil and probably much bigger after ---- porpoises and turtles can pass through a dead zone since they can surface for air --- unless they have to go through an oil slick to get there ===

dadt

this is purty funny

alabama

it is hard to believe that ignorance is a qualification for governor in alabama, but it is:

Today’s right wing jawdropper: in Alabama, the “True Republican PAC” is running an advertisement mocking Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne for supporting the teaching of evolution in schools.

--- is there any hope for the republic?

tea bagging america

For almost a year and a half, furious Tea Party protesters have been chanting "Taxed Enough Already." But as it turns out, "taxed enough" actually means "at the lowest levels since 1950." That's the word from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which found that Americans paid the smallest overall tax bill since Harry Truman was in the White House. Of course, that inconvenient truth for Tea Baggers is tied to another: their plummeting payments are due in part to the tax relief delivered by President Obama.

of course it won't matter --- the tea partiers and their ilk cannot be swayed by "facts"

well?

the truth will out

kent state was a traumatic experience if you were in school and anti-war in 1970 --- a lot of dirty hippies said at the time that the four student deaths were the result of more than just young national guardsmen who panicked --- now there's proof

the right wing goes there

one of these days, this kind of attack will be not work --- will this be that time?

It’s time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans. The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they? [emphasis added]

the american family association and their christianist allies continue to prove that medieval values are not dead --- i said "christianist", not "christian," ok?

let's all laugh at the dumass, shall we?

thnx for the link, andrew

extreme space management

thnx for the link, allen

fire drill

i hope this wasn't the herndon house or atl. university but it sure looked close---

yum

sprawlanner!

upper midtown

went to a great lecture at rhodes hall this evening -- on split levels of all things --- traced its origin to wrights' storer house (1923), which actually had five levels rather than the typical three

rhodes hall is a piece of work, even if the parlor is a little gaudy