Archive for July 2010
MW: Lazy Sunday – Best Comedy Movies
Posted by: chatblu on: July 11, 2010
We made it through another week, Widdershins. Today we’ll do comedies, as we really need a laugh or two. Mine are all movies, but feel free to add plays if you so wish. Here are my top ten, alphabetically: (1) Animal House 1978: John Belushi at his finest. The Deltas remind me poignantly of the [...]
MW: Debtors Prisons?
Posted by: chatblu on: July 10, 2010
The United States outlawed federal imprisonment for debt in 1833, and most states did at the same time. Prior to that, incarceration for debt was a widespread practice. Today, prison for debts other than taxes and failure to support a minor child are rare, but may be making a comeback. The Minneapolis-St Paul Tribune ran [...]
MW: Coming to their senses? I doubt it
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 9, 2010
- In: Afghanistan | Politics
- 19 Comments
Far be it from me to defend Michael Steele or Barack Obama’s pathetic asses. Live by the sword, die by the sword and all that. By now most everyone has heard about the big-ass can of worms that Micheal Steele opened the other day when he spoke the truth. Not that everything he said was [...]
MW: A New Educational Opportunity – Beck University
Posted by: chatblu on: July 8, 2010
- In: Snark | You Tube
- 40 Comments
No, I am not making this up. I wish I were. Not content with reframing debate into an ongoing comparison of liberal thought processes to the nais, Beck has launched a new educational endeavor. Beck U. appears to be basically an online educational process, scheduled to open this month with the following educational offerings: Faith [...]
MW: Surprise, Surprise! Congressional Dems say one thing and do another
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 7, 2010
- In: Government | Propaganda
- 5 Comments
Well, this is such a surprise. Just one day after leaders of the House of Representatives announced a ban on earmarks to profit-making companies, Victoria Kurtz, the vice president for marketing of a small Ohio defense contracting firm, hit on a creative way around it. To keep the taxpayer money flowing, Ms. Kurtz incorporated what [...]
MW: Panther Voter Intimidation Case Dismissed?
Posted by: chatblu on: July 6, 2010
- In: Democratic Values | Government | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Politics | racism | You Tube
- 14 Comments
Eric Holder owes us an explanation for ditching an open and shut case of voter intimidation. I’m referring to the intimidation of voter and pollworkers in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia on election day, 2008. The Justice Department filed a case in January, 2009 against Samir Shabazz, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the New [...]
MW: Parental “involvement” and student achievement
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 5, 2010
- In: Education
- 17 Comments
Interesting. This rings true. Given the conventional wisdom, as the the child of a single mother, I should be bottom of the heap when it comes to academics and success in school, and yet that was not the case at all. We’ve been scolded for years and told that parental “involvement” is the key to [...]
MW: Lazy Sunday – Thrillers
Posted by: chatblu on: July 4, 2010
- In: You Tube
- 44 Comments
Happy 4th of July, Widdershins! Today’s post will discuss our favorite “thriller flicks”. They can be anything whatsoever, as long as they meet that single criteria. Today we’ll have daylong thunderstorms here, so it’s a great day to pull out the dvd’s and veg out. Here are my favs, in alphabetical order - and yes, I really really [...]
MW: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident
Posted by: chatblu on: July 3, 2010
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]
Feminist Friday: Limiting the exposure. Uh huh.
Posted by: bluelyon on: July 2, 2010
- In: Feminism | Women
- 30 Comments
Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it’s our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we [...]
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