Happy Hour News Briefs
News served straight-up, with a twist
(Petunia and Pals) Grifter selling his book makes Petunia break down.
- Told ya so - The rush is on to pass a law so that teachers will start carrying guns in OK. And Tennessee is close on its heels. Meanwhile, MI Gov. Rick Snyder vetoes a bill to do just that. And VA Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte who will chair the House Judiciary Committee in the new year says that he will not entertain any new gun control laws.
- DADT - Famous lady parts scholar Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin is working his legislative and theocrat magiks. While he doesn’t have much time left, he is working feverishly to undermine the repeal of DADT, you know inserting conscience clauses so that the troops can have ways to shut that thing down. (Mother Jones)
- The long finger of the law - The Family Research Council (famous for being listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) is being sued for sexual harassment by Moira Gaul, who worked for them as director of women’s and reproductive health and whose expertise is in abstinence-only education. It’s gotta take some doing to make a self-loathing lady sue her employer for sexual harassment. (Think Progress)
Yes, Dr. Alexander, those lucky chilluns get to go to Jeebus. Meanwhile, their friends and family back here on Earth get to spend some considerable time in hell.
I don’t doubt The Good Doctor’s experience, or his sincerity, but I despise the sheep-like passivity such an outlook engenders in people who find it easier to go to slaughter in the hope of reaching Heaven than to fight to make THIS world a better place for ALL OF US.
Well, knock me over with a feather.
Under that Beauty Queen bosom beats a real, live human heart.
I never would have guessed.
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Bob Somerby, writing as usual about the punditry, wrote the other day, “And this latest mass shooting raises many larger questions—for instance, about the kinds of people who only get upset, or pretend to get upset, when it’s children who get shot down.”
I don’t know about the “pretend” – this thing on Friday was just the worst. I don’t think most people have to pretend very hard.
So unconsciousness is comforting.
That’s not really news to drinkers.