Rebutting one set of conspiracy claims with another...

Op-Ed: Failure Is Not an Option, It's Mandatory by Thomas Frank

Full text behind an LJ cut.

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What's scary is that it makes sense. Maybe I'm just a true-blue liberal (uh... never mind that Canadian Liberals are red).

From another NYTimes.com article comes the best quote ever: The Julian Bonds and Kweisi Mfumes of the world can take care of themselves at least as well as Mr. Bush in the legalized gang fight called politics. (Emphasis mine.)

Bwahaha.

Op-Ed: Bush's Not-So-Big Tent, an article that examines Bush's use and then abuse of the black Republican community

Mr. Bush said he was a different kind of Republican, but what black voters see are tax cuts for the very wealthy and underfunded public schools. What they see is an economy that sizzles for the haves and the have-mores, but a harrowing employment crisis for struggling blacks, especially black men. (When the Community Service Society looked at the proportion of the working-age population with jobs in New York City it found that nearly half of all black men between the ages of 16 and 64 were not working last year. That's a Depression-era statistic.)

I'm going to look up that study as soon as I read my friends page.

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Open Letter To Fucktard Truck Drivers:

Fuck you.

Fuck you, truck driver turning right onto Keele. I saw you there, waiting for the advanced green to stop so that you could make your wide right turn. I knew, seeing you, that in a few seconds, I was going to get pissy.

I positioned myself as far right on the crosswalk and as far forward as I could without worrying that some asshat would scrape my toes doing a wide left.

And the light changed.

I know you saw me. If you didn't, then you're fucking blind as well as a moron. But no, I know you saw me; and yet you insisted on making your fucking wide-right turn, meaning that when I finally got to cross the fucking road, I got stuck on the middle divider for five minutes as the Keele & Highway 7 lights went through their rotation.

So fuck you. Assuming you also drive a car, you have two licenses, BOTH OF WHICH TAUGHT YOU THAT PEDESTRIANS GET THE RIGHT OF WAY!

Sincerely pissed off,
Alex

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I feel better now.

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Me: [Dad] is on another line, would you like to wait on hold or have him call you back?
Jim: Just tell him to come down and fix this machine before I hit it with a hammer because it's been driving me nuts all day.