It’s hard out there for a cool rich kid, looking for a minority to blame.
NYT editorialist Joe Nocera, tried to explain, yet again, how Fannie and Freddie were not, in fact, the “epicenter of the financial meltdown”, as Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann claimed at the most recent GOP debate. Yet these real sins have been largely overlooked in favor of imagined ones. Over at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, [...]
Does “Lower Class” Culture Perpetuate Poverty? (redux)
So we all know that GOP primary frontrunner Newt Gingrich has been spouting off about how child labor laws should be abolished and how “really poor” (read: black) elementary kids would make nifty janitors. Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they [...]
Republican welfare recipients and their hypocrisy
Governor Jan Brewer was under federal investigation in 2010 for possibly improperly receiving Social Security disability benefits for her son Ronald, who was found to be not guilty by reason of insanity for raping a woman at knifepoint in 1989. Ronald wasn’t supposed to be getting SSDI after 1995 but investigators suspected Governor Brewer might [...]
Wake up, Kathleen. Republicans are the problem.
Arizona Republic columnist Kathleen Ingley’s Sunday op-ed “Wake up, Arizona (We’ve got problems)” correctly identified many of the problems plaguing our state – crazy reputation due to crazy behavior and rhetoric by prominent Arizona figures, idiotic fiscal and economic policies, and the intentional gutting of education from pre-school to university level. I had Kathleen’s back [...]
Some helpful tips for Thanksgiving from a Diva!
Happy happy Turkey Day, y’all. I thought I’d share some holiday survival tactics with you guys this evening. Create perfect Thanksgiving pies. Drive to Costco, select an apple, pecan, and pumpkin pie and pay for them. Then head to Fry’s or Safeway or Bashas for whipped cream and vanilla ice cream. Argue effectively with your [...]
Newt’s not the only Republican who thinks kids should be back in the labor force.
Hi Diva-roos! I went and took nearly another week off from blogging due to some stuff having to be dealt with. Boy howdy, do I have some catching up to do. Before I start on my post let me state that today’s my birthday and Mark and I are the guardians of a pair of [...]
Occupy Phoenix happenin’s this week
Breaking news this morning was that that 18 mayors had a conference call to coordinate the police raids on Occupy protests in recent days. Rumor has it that Homeland Security and the FBI may be coordinating the coordination. Anyhoo, I’ve been asked to PSA y’all about Occupy Phoenix activities and I’m happy to oblige. Here’s [...]
