Jason Rose twitter fiasco illustrates important points about humor, civility
Hey kids! So my Arizona Guardian digest email (I should get around to renewing my subscription) reported that Arizona PR magnate Jason Rose got himself in hot water and was fired from his gig with Special Olympics for the following dickish tweet about spectators of a Coyotes game. “usc-ucla? Felt like was sitting at a [...]
Ciphers, the lot of them
ci·pher noun, often attributive \ˈsī-fər\ Definition of CIPHER 1 a : zero 1a b : one that has no weight, worth, or influence : nonentity So much going on today! Hard to pick what to write about. Let’s see: The independent redistricting outrage (public meeting going on in Scottsdale as we speak, with many of [...]
Enough.
American conservatives, who are nominally pro-democracy, seem to be confused and perturbed by the recent events in Egypt. Democracy troubles them when “those people” take it without proper neo-conservative dispensation. It is along those lines that these same conservatives favor personal freedom here in the U.S., again in limited circumstances. The mere suggestion of gun [...]
Nice try but Brock Landers is a relevant campaign issue.
So the official narrative on Ben Quayle’s participation on the Dirty Scottsdale site has become that it’s is a trivial matter and bringing it up is a “smear”. We’re supposed to focus on Weighty and ImportantTM matters such as the economy and foreign policy in the CD3 race. I’ve heard this not just from the [...]
How to concern-troll a fat woman, Howard Stern style.
Howard Stern shows us how here, in his tirade about Gabourey Sidibe having the nerve to exist: “There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s never going to be in another movie,” Stern ranted. “She should have gotten the Best [...]
Unenforceable, eh?
The Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision has spurred Sec’y of State Ken Bennett and a bipartisan group of legislators to rush to put together a bill that will bring our state’s law pertaining to corporate campaign contributions into line with that decision. The Secretary of State’s Office is proposing changes in state campaign contribution [...]
So much wrong with this I don’t know where to begin
H/T to Joe.My.God. The photo on the left is the one that a Florida Christian group used to illustrate their objection to a lesbian couple adopting a child in an alert to members. The photo on the right is the actual couple. Sigh. But wait, there’s more! Scott Maxwell, editorialist for the Orlando Sentinel, couldn’t [...]
