I’m not anti-gun, but I do wish our government represented us rather than the gun lobby, something that’s just not so anymore. This list merely tracks one particular lobby.
I liked it better when I harbored a shred of belief that our representatives actually represented the rank and file of their states. Alas, not so.
Having “our” representatives wear NASCAR-type patches to indicate who bought them sounds better and better to me.
Cassandra
With each day, I grow more convinced Elizabeth Warren is rarer than a unicorn. Do we actually have a responsible, citizen-oriented politician?
“Sigh. Elizabeth Warren Embarrasses Some Bank Regulators To Their Faces. Again”
Can we have her cloned?
Cassandra
For quite a while now, many viewed North Carolina favorably as a state that honored the arts and culture in general. That changed when Republicans gained control of North Carolina’s government in 2012. Now, their legislators are pumping out a frenzy of laws that may well strike even many conservatives as over the top.
Addicting Info just posted a good intro article: “Carolina? Another New Worthless Bill”
While I don’t know the specific make-up of the members of the legislature in North Carolina, I wonder if this flurry reflects a certain end stage frenzy, the last panting gasps of a specific segment of the population, those traditionalists so infuriated by the social changes in the United States over the last few decades that they will give up any pretense of fairness in their attempts to legislate into existence their vision of the Real America.
This strikes me as a more dangerous version of stories I’ve read of the Ghost Dances of the defeated, reservation-bound Native Americans of the late 19th Century.
Cassandra
I wish I disagreed with the “funny” definitions on the poster that comes up if you click the link below. Unfortunately, they strike me as being spot on.
On a related note, I was thinking how nice it is that I no longer have to travel to Africa or anywhere else to explore places that look a lot like autocratic Third World countries. Nice of these places to come to me.
Elitistly yours,
Cassandra
This article from the UK newspaper The Independent carries a muddle of information on beliefs in the United States, but it provides some evidence of the number of Americans who have negligible knowledge of how to evaluate sources or perform adequate research.
Oh, well. If nothing else, the United States now has a high enough population of ninnies to provide other parts of the world with a good laugh.
Cassandra
These few, succinct sentences appeared on Upworthy.
Scientists resist change too, of course. Conventional wisdom looks sooooo correct until that moment when it becomes completely indefensible.
Cassandra
Here in Colorado, Democratic governor Hickenlooper drank what he was told was fracking fluid.
That, I thought, was proof enough of the state of American politics.
Now I read this: “Washington State Rep. Ed Orcutt Claims Bicyclists Produce More Pollution Than Motorists”
As if I needed more proof that almost no one does any research.
Cassandra
I just read this.
While reading, I nodded several times, said, “Yup” a couple of times, and then fell into silence.
I wish I liked hard liquor.
Cassandra
Shady Grove Farm, owned and operated by the Buchler family in Gwinn, MI, is in a legal battle with the Forsyth Township over zoning regulations and the right to farm.
This article is, as the Germans might say, sehr interessant:
“Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?”
I hope there’s substance. I can feel my Schadenfreude rising.
Guilty pleasures always bring up German words for some reason.
Cassandra
