Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

Be Grateful They Want to Steal from You!

Ryan Bliss over at Digital Blasphemy does some amazing work. (the link is to the free gallery. A membership is totally worth the price.) It’s no surprise then, that his work gets snagged a lot. That doesn’t make it okay, but at least it’s not a surprise. What does surprise me is the reaction people […]

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What Does It Take to Make You Care?

[name removed], 45, of Starke, Fla., said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending. “Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,” she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was

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Fact Check My Assets

Obama said the health care bill will not require anyone to change their plans or their doctor. Yahoo fact check said: THE FACTS: That’s correct, as far as it goes. But neither can the plan guarantee that people can keep their current coverage. Employers sponsor coverage for most families, and they’d be free to change

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Fascist? Or Scary Black Man?

I can’t understand. I just can’t. Unless it’s an unthinking reaction to letting the scary black man near your children when you aren’t around (which on its own is disgusting; to hide it behind “the fascist wants to indoctrinate in an hour speech over the TV and my last ten years or more of raising

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More of a Guideline, Really

Ahh, yes, here it is. My at-least-yearly, sometimes-more-often rant about sending a child to school. Please don’t tell me you forgot when the first day was. Don’t tell me you thought it would be better for whatever silly reason. Your actions tell him right from the first day that attendance doesn’t matter, and how the

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Way to Bow to the Morons, Guys

A plan to provide hospice counseling and other end-of-life advice to patients and their families is being dropped by US Senate health care negotiators after critics charged that it would lead to the formation of federal “death panels,’’ a key GOP senator said yesterday. via Senators eliminate end-of-life provision – The Boston Globe. I guess

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I Will Not Shut Up

I really should learn that I don’t debate well live. I need to stay away from it. But it’s so hard when someone is wrong on the internet! Yesterday on Twitter, Colleen Lindsay asked “Should a racist/ bigoted author be boycotted even if his/her written work is considered a literary masterpiece?” Well, of course we

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