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 [...]
Some tool on the Chicago Board of Trade thinks everyone but him is a loser, including people with jobs.
My friend Neil Rosekrans, who used to run StateBrief but has a new blog called Camelbackland (clever name!) posted this the other day: Someone from inside the Chicago Board of Trade is handing out leaflets to Occupy Chicago explaining how it all ends. “Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we [...]
Goldwater Institute releases “months-long investigation” on unions – Just in time to help Wes Gullett and push ALEC garbage
Councilman Sal DiCiccio has been hyperventilating into my email inbox the past few days about, guess what? You guessed it: OMG UNION BOSSES TAKING OVER THE CITY!!1! Here’s today’s missive, brought to me by Sal via the AZ GOP, which is totally not colluding with the nonpartisan Goldwater Institute to promote a partisan agenda: Exposed: [...]
Class warfare/envy, “job creators”, and theocracy
The “class warfare” talking points have been flying at us fast and furious off the Right Wing Catapult o’ Propaganda in anticipation of and after President Obama’s jobs bill speech today. We mustn’t tax the richest Americans a bit more, we are told, because they are Job CreatorsTM and will melt, or something. What’s striking [...]
