Category Archives: rhetoric

Dumbfuck Dynasty

Sarah Palin, Gov. Bobby Jindal defend Phil Robertson after he’s suspended from ‘Duck Dynasty’ (Washington Post) Megyn Kelly: I Was Just Kidding About Santa Being White You Race-Baiter (Gawker) Lost amidst the more high-profile departure of Alec Baldwin from their prime-time lineup, MSNBC recently had a much more difficult personnel struggle that resulted in another of their hosts leaving. Martin Bashir, who once interviewed Michael Jackson on television years ago and then somehow popped up hosting an afternoon show on the network, was highlighting stupid…

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Broken Promise

Judge rules pensions can be cut in Detroit bankruptcy (Detroit Free Press) One of the most infuriating aspects of the federal bailout of our nation’s biggest banks following the 2008 economic collapse was that so many of the executives, whose actions both within their banks and through the elected officials they basically had in their back pockets, were allowed to keep so much of the severance pay in their contracts. At a time when our economy was shedding jobs left and right, at a time…

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Paul, Rand: F

Rand Paul On Plagiarism Claims: ‘It Annoys The Hell Out Of Me’ (Washington Post) Although I haven’t even been out of high school for twenty years (but I’m still having lots of nightmares about my high school experiences to this day), the advances in research technology made in just that short span of time mean that my experience as a high school student is worlds removed from what my students went through in high school. CD-ROM technology was just becoming common in schools when I…

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The Health Care Games

(Note: Due to being in the middle of both a huge writing project and a huge editing project right now, I probably won’t be able to blog that much for the remainder of the year. I apologize for that, and encourage you all to follow me on my Twitter and Facebook and Google+, which I’m able to update much more often than the .org.) Over the past few years, Mom has taken to watching game shows a lot. I think it’s kind of her way…

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Priorities

What A Beach-Bumming, Couch-Surfing Dudebro Can Teach Us About Food Stamps (Upworthy) Bill O’Reilly Says Food Stamps Allow “Parasites” to “Take As Much As They Can Without Remorse” (opposingviews.com) There is always a danger in using the example of one person to comment on something that affects tens or hundreds of millions of people, because any group that size is going to have large variances and atypical cases. Sometimes it’s an effective tactic that proves a good point, but other times it creates such an…

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