Lunaya Pravda

PintOfStout over at Murphy’s Bye-Laws writes yet another excellent piece:
There are two reasons voting persists even though the choices almost all crawl from the same cesspool. The first reason is to keep those that are being extorted from flat-out stringing them up. This is accomplished by slapping some hooker-red lipstick on this pig and promising [...]

Maybe I should rethink this “overcoming fear” theme for the year.
Just a smidge over two weeks ago, I wrote about having my sunroof smashed by a rock thrown from an overpass. Yesterday morning, I was rear-ended on my way to work. Fortunately there were no serious injuries beyond some stiffness and soreness on [...]

It’s shit like this that makes me doubt any hope for humanity.
Iowa Family Finds Snake Head in Can of Beans
An Iowa family filed a lawsuit seeking damages over a snake head they claim to have found in a can of green beans.
Amy Schneider said she found the head when she opened the can of green [...]

New trolley saddled with mocking name
Officially, it’s now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they’re waiting for the SLUT.
At the Kapow! Coffee house on Harrison Street, they’re selling T-shirts that read “Ride the SLUT.”
“We’re welcoming the SLUT into [...]

Two folks I very much admire have finally started blogging.
Jacques, self-admitted lazy guy, has succumbed to nagging and started Jacques’ Blog. I can only hope he sticks with it.
Meanwhile, I’m a little late to the party over at Eleanor’s My Quiet Mountain Town. As she’s someone who, when she speaks up, is worth [...]

I sometimes wonder how folks can come relatively close to what I think is the right conclusion in one aspect of freedom and be so blindingly, painfully off-base in another.
Robert Jamieson of the Seattle PI bloviates:
But anyone who truly values democracy doesn’t want safety if it comes attached to a troubling string: Big Brother-like surveillance.
Video [...]

Regarding my entry about my moon roof incident, B.W. Richardson said…
Not really surprising - they would have had to report it as an unsolved case, bad for their percentages, so they scared you out of reporting it (well, that, and the idiot insurance companies exist to keep your money and deny as much of your [...]

Why on earth do I continue to be surprised at government idiocy? You’d think that by now, I’d have long since accepted the fact that stupidity has no bounds… that we have, indeed, invented a better idiot at every junction in social evolution.
As I was driving home yesterday, someone tossed a rock (or something [...]

Rob over at To The People cracks me up. I appreciate a man who doesn’t mince words.

Police visit but make no arrests at what appears to be speak-easy
About 3 a.m. Sunday, a uniformed officer attempted to follow a patron into the club, only to have the door slam shut on both of them.
I love it! Subversive behavior AND giving a nosy JBT with no warrant exactly the entry he deserves–none [...]