Posts Tagged ‘Tom Tancredo’
Tuesday Miscellany
* Lots of talk today about Arizona and its new “papers, please” immigration law, which James Doty, Andrew Napolitano, Erwin Chemerinsky and Karl Manheim all agree is almost certainly unconstitutional. Even Tom Tancredo and Joe Scarborough thinks this goes too far—though douchebag of liberty Bill Kristol thinks it’s fine. The city of San Francisco will join a national boycott. Perhaps Major League Baseball will too. There’s more commentary on this from Eugene Robinson, Rachel Maddow, Seth Meyer, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.
* Colbert’s segment on Sue Lowden’s chickens-for-medical-care scheme was pretty great too.
* Alas, poor Durham: not one of America’s highest cities.
* Britain and China have your videos of the day.
* You can stop laughing, lawyers—now your degree is worthless too.
* The Louisiana oil spill, as seen from space.
* And some breaking news: Ben Nelson is still really terrible.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 27, 2010 at 11:18 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Arizona, barter economies, baseball, Ben Nelson, Bill Kristol, boycotts, Britain, chickens, China, Colbert, Daily Show, Deepwater Horizon, douchebags of liberty, Durham, fascism, financial reform, Gulf of Mexico, gymnastics, health care, immigration, Joe Scarborough, lawyers, Louisiana, magic, marijuana, Nevada, oil, over-educated literary theory PhDs, politics, race, Rachel Maddow, San Francisco, Saturday Night Live, the Constitution, the law, Tom Tancredo, worthless degrees, YouTube
Friday Night Links
Friday night links.
* Gingrich: “If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything,” Sotomayor must be barred from the Supreme Court. Who does he think won the Civil War?
* Tom Tancredo: “I don’t know” if the Obama administration hates white people.
* Sonia Sotomayor, notorious racist, ruled against people claiming illegal discrimination in 45 out of 50 cases. This goes along with Dave Sirin’s piece on Sotomayor in The Nation to demonstrate that she is a moderate—likely too moderate—not some leftist firebrand. Anyone Obama picked to replace her would, from Newt’s perspective anyway, likely be significantly worse.
* Earlier this month, a Twitter user in Guatemala was arrested, jailed, and fined the equivalent of a year’s salary for having posted a 96-character thought to Twitter. @jeanfer faces ten years in prison.
* Nuclear power, too cheap to meter.
* Uhura, Dualla, and “Blacks in Space.” I really think some nuance is being lost here; to take up just one point, Uhura isn’t marginalized in the new Star Trek; if anything she replaces McCoy as the third lead.
* Jason Schwartzman’s (fake) new sitcom on NBC, “Yo Teach,” a viral ad for Judd Apatow’s Funny People.
* Wikipedia has barred edits from known Scientologist IP addresses. Xenu weeps.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 29, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica, civil rights, Civil War, free speech, Guatemala, Jason Schwartzman, Judd Apatow, morally odious morons, Newt Gingrich, nuclear energy, politics, race, Rushmore, science fiction, Scientology, Sonia Sotomayor, Star Trek, Tom Tancredo, Twitter, Wikipedia
The KKK Used To Kill People
The KKK murdered people, you ass.
Written by gerrycanavan
May 29, 2009 at 5:08 am
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Tagged with KKK, politics, Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Tancredo, WTFRepublicans?
Strikes and Gutters, Ups and Downs
with 6 comments
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you. It was obviously a tough night for Democrats but on some level it was always going to be—with unemployment at 9.6% and millions of people underwater on their mortgages the Democrats were doomed to lose and lose big. On this the stimulus really was the original sin—if it had been bigger and better-targeted the economic situation could have been better, but it wasn’t and here we are. Unlike 2000 and 2004 I think this election stings, but it doesn’t hurt; a big loss like this has been baked in the cake for a while.
Remember that as the pundits play bad political commentary bingo all month.
As I mentioned last night, overs beat the unders, which means my more optimistic predictions were 2/3 wrong: Republicans overshot the House predictions and Sestak and Giannoulias both lost their close races in PA and IL. But I was right that young people can’t be trusted to vote even when marijuana legalization is on the ballot. Cynicism wins again! I’ll remember that for next time.
I was on Twitter for most of the night last night and most of my observations about last night have already been made there. A few highlights from the night:
Anything I missed?
Written by gerrycanavan
November 3, 2010 at 11:48 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with 2000, 2004, 2010, academia, art, bad commentary bingo, Barack Obama, Big Lebowski, California, climate change, Colorado, cynicism, Democrats, don't ask don't tell, ecology, gay rights, Harry Reid, How the University Works, Howard Dean, marijuana, Nevada, North Carolina, politics, progressives, puppies, Russ Feingold, Sarah Palin, Sharia law, stimulus package, Tea Party, the House, the Senate, the truth is out there, the young people, Tim Kaine, Tom Tancredo, Twitter, UFOs, UNC, Wisconsin