This happened 30 years ago today – yes, we would later find out that he was betting on baseball, but I’m sorry; I have a soft spot for Pete Rose, partly because the Phillies would never have won the World Series in 1980 without him…he did wrong, but hasn’t he paid enough? Just reinstate him already…
…and here is a dose of reality therapy from Mike Malloy…
…and yeah, this is pretty goddamn appalling (more here – the Martin O’Malley interview wasn’t bad, by the way, but Hayes couldn’t resist asking about that stupid so-called issue with Hillary Clinton’s Email)…
…and the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act is set to expire (David Howley, a retired NYPD officer and 9/11 first responder, is interviewed here, urging Congress to renew the Act)…
…and I haven’t forgotten about the significance of this day either.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thursday Stuff
On the one hand, this stuff trumps any alleged shenanigans with an Email server and a personal account, but on the other hand, Governor Bully will never win the Republican presidential nomination anyway…
…and even though Jon Stewart is gone, Larry Wilmore, among others, is still around to speak truth to stoo-pid, this time on all the Kim Davis stuff here (nicely done, particularly at the end)…
…and why should I not be surprised by what John and Cenk are telling us here about the Gulf States doing virtually nothing to help Syrian refugees? Love the graphic, though...
…and kudos to Michael Stipe for this – always a sucker for jangly-sounding guitars.
…and even though Jon Stewart is gone, Larry Wilmore, among others, is still around to speak truth to stoo-pid, this time on all the Kim Davis stuff here (nicely done, particularly at the end)…
…and why should I not be surprised by what John and Cenk are telling us here about the Gulf States doing virtually nothing to help Syrian refugees? Love the graphic, though...
…and kudos to Michael Stipe for this – always a sucker for jangly-sounding guitars.
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Wednesday Stuff
Thom Hartmann brings us economic news from 9/8 (more on TANF is here, by the way, and those smiley-faced bastards are at it again – and kudos to Connecticut and Governor Dannel Malloy for taking care of our homeless veterans, which is truly the least we can do)…
…and hey, don’t get too stressed about this story about the NYC cops complaining about being held accountable for their idiotic “stop and frisk” policy, where 4 out of 5 people on average are innocent – if it were up to Governor Bully and this was NJ, he’d probably tell the cops to stick bar codes on everybody (here – definitely NSFW)…
...and I think the assumption here that this show of force is China's way of flipping the bird, as it were, to the rest of the world, is a correct one - damn, this narrator seriously needs to speak up...
…and here’s a tune for this celebrated occasion (I dig the fireworks too).
…and hey, don’t get too stressed about this story about the NYC cops complaining about being held accountable for their idiotic “stop and frisk” policy, where 4 out of 5 people on average are innocent – if it were up to Governor Bully and this was NJ, he’d probably tell the cops to stick bar codes on everybody (here – definitely NSFW)…
...and I think the assumption here that this show of force is China's way of flipping the bird, as it were, to the rest of the world, is a correct one - damn, this narrator seriously needs to speak up...
…and here’s a tune for this celebrated occasion (I dig the fireworks too).
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Tuesday Stuff
…and I’m sure Andy Parker is serious about what he says here – all the best (NSFW)…
...…and I give you the latest installment of “This Day in Doomsy History” from 9/7/09, in which Minnesota Senator Al Franken talks a Teahadist back to reality (yes, it can be done, though not easily)…
…and this story is particularly important for Memorial Day or Veterans Day, but really, it’s important year round…
Monday, September 07, 2015
Monday Stuff
I thought this was a neat little video on the history of Labor Day (more here and here)...
…and here’s a timely reminder on this subject addressed to The Orange One (yes, more work to do, as it were, but let’s have a little perspective here, OK?)…
…and yep, this sounds pretty open-and-shut to me also…
…and I usually feature that great cover by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band today, but I thought I’d change things up a bit.
…and here’s a timely reminder on this subject addressed to The Orange One (yes, more work to do, as it were, but let’s have a little perspective here, OK?)…
…and yep, this sounds pretty open-and-shut to me also…
…and I usually feature that great cover by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band today, but I thought I’d change things up a bit.
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Sunday Stuff
All the best to New York educator Sheri Lederman over her utterly needless (should be, anyway) fight over using something called value-added modeling to evaluate teacher performance, another example of the many ills of standardized testing (and we can’t blame the Repugs entirely for this, with Andrew Cuomo and Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan sitting on that stupid panel telling us everything is OK)…
...and speaking of educators, this video is a backgrounder on the story of Natalie Munro, the Bucks County teacher who claims that she was fired because of disparaging comments about students on her blog, even though (as the clip reminds us) the school board said she was let go because of poor performance. If it turns out that the school board is right, then this really is an open-and-shut case, though it makes me a bit suspicious that a court found that she can’t sue the school board, as was recently ruled as noted here.
I’ll be honest; if Mrs. Doomsy and I found out that one of the teenaged one’s teachers had posted disparaging comments about students online, we’d be mad as hell. Would I necessarily want that teacher fired if his/her performance was good otherwise? I don’t know.
I just know that some friends of ours are teachers, and they basically are told that they have to work miracles in the face of mandatory testing, ever-diminishing budgets, incompetent administrators and “parents” who can’t even take care of themselves, let alone their offspring (and oh yeah, the supposed “crisis” over the alleged student shortage of STEM majors, which is nothing but a scam to generate more H-1B visas to create a glut of workers for a shrinking amount of jobs to keep wages depressed).
I also have a feeling that, with the incarceration of Kim Davis, the wingnuts are looking for a new “values” hero or heroine, and I have a suspicion that they may decide to make Munro the new object of their twisted affections, as it were…
…and speaking of faux outrage, good for Cenk and Ana giving it right back to Billo and the other news mannequins at Fix Noise being pulled by Roger Ailes’ puppet strings (here); I have to admit that I’m on the fence when it comes to Black Lives Matter – I think they should tone down the rhetoric and try more to build bridges instead of walls (protesting Bernie freaking Sanders??!!), though they definitely have a right to be angry and that should be respected – if BLM is a “hate group,” then I’m a Chinese aviator (NSFW of course...one more thing; Dr. George Tiller was murdered in his church, not at his clinic)…
…and I think this calls for this song one more time; haven’t put it up for a little while.
...and speaking of educators, this video is a backgrounder on the story of Natalie Munro, the Bucks County teacher who claims that she was fired because of disparaging comments about students on her blog, even though (as the clip reminds us) the school board said she was let go because of poor performance. If it turns out that the school board is right, then this really is an open-and-shut case, though it makes me a bit suspicious that a court found that she can’t sue the school board, as was recently ruled as noted here.
I’ll be honest; if Mrs. Doomsy and I found out that one of the teenaged one’s teachers had posted disparaging comments about students online, we’d be mad as hell. Would I necessarily want that teacher fired if his/her performance was good otherwise? I don’t know.
I just know that some friends of ours are teachers, and they basically are told that they have to work miracles in the face of mandatory testing, ever-diminishing budgets, incompetent administrators and “parents” who can’t even take care of themselves, let alone their offspring (and oh yeah, the supposed “crisis” over the alleged student shortage of STEM majors, which is nothing but a scam to generate more H-1B visas to create a glut of workers for a shrinking amount of jobs to keep wages depressed).
I also have a feeling that, with the incarceration of Kim Davis, the wingnuts are looking for a new “values” hero or heroine, and I have a suspicion that they may decide to make Munro the new object of their twisted affections, as it were…
…and speaking of faux outrage, good for Cenk and Ana giving it right back to Billo and the other news mannequins at Fix Noise being pulled by Roger Ailes’ puppet strings (here); I have to admit that I’m on the fence when it comes to Black Lives Matter – I think they should tone down the rhetoric and try more to build bridges instead of walls (protesting Bernie freaking Sanders??!!), though they definitely have a right to be angry and that should be respected – if BLM is a “hate group,” then I’m a Chinese aviator (NSFW of course...one more thing; Dr. George Tiller was murdered in his church, not at his clinic)…
…and I think this calls for this song one more time; haven’t put it up for a little while.
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