• Blogs Wot I Read - Good and Joyful Things

    REAL Vermonter-American Mama Grizzly Bear Defends Her Young

    @SarahPalinUSA needs to read this letter to the editor of the White River Junction (VT) Valley Times to see how a REAL mama grizzly defended her young in 2000. So good, I quoted the whole thing. h/t MadPriest Of Course, I Could Be Wrong…: ANSWER THAT!. Sent in to MadPriest Towers by THEMETHATISME: A letter from SHARON UNDERWOOD published by The Valley News (White River Junction, VT) Sunday, April 30, 2000 Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Death or Glory

    Somebody rides this beast to work at my building; the seat is well worn latigo leather with an intruging motto. It says "Death or Glory." Via: Flickr Title: Death or Glory By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 14 May ’10, 6.49pm CDT PST

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Shared Links May 12th – May 14th

    New Web site offers reviews of churches – Chicago Tribune Wal-Mart To Give Food Banks $2 Billion In Aid Over Next Five Years – The Two-Way – Breaking News, Analysis Blog : NPR Anglicanism and the Church of England : The New Yorker Richard (RJ) Eskow: Usurious Payday Loans: Myths, Flawed Studies, and Solutions The Lead | Desmond Tutu

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    More Like the Guy I Voted For

    President Obama rips BP, Transocean, Halliburton execs a new one. ‘Ridiculous spectacle’: Obama slams BP, Transocean over Gulf oil spill | McClatchy As for Tuesday’s testimony in which companies involved passed the blame for the spill, the president said, “I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter. You had executives of B.P. and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn’t.”

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Shared Links May 10th – May 11th

    Free Font Download – Bitwise font | UrbanFonts.com Free Font Download – 256 Bytes font | UrbanFonts.com Free Font Download – Venetia Monitor font | UrbanFonts.com Gas surge shut well a couple of weeks before Gulf oil spill | NOLA.com Clarkson told to reopen footpath Clarkson is an ass and on a future trip I'd like to walk on on of these footpaths. Growth Possible or Desired

  • Mini-Posts

    Dreams, What Dreams | iPad and Fares

    Chuck has cool dreams about dead spies. I have dreams about using an iPad to look up fare rules, complete with cute little icon graphics for each fare basis. What does the one that looks like the Queen of Hearts (medieval, Alice in Wonderland style) cost to change? What? Going back to bed now.

  • Only in Utah... - Politics, Schmolitics

    Claudia Wright for US Congress, UT-02

    Hope my Utah friends and family take an interest in politics this fall and VOTE; even in ultra-mega-infra-Red Utah, there are Democrats worth electin. One of them is NOT worth re-electing: Jim Matheson, Blue Dog incumbent from the second Congressional district was thrown into a primary because his opponent, progressive liberal Claudia Wright, galvanized yesterday’s Democratic convention delegates. Howie Klein: Can Brigham Young’s Great Great Gay Progressive Granddaughter Oust A Blue Dog & Win A House Seat In Utah? A hearty band of awesome Democrats there put their collective foot down and prevented anti-healthcare Blue Dog Jim Matheson from winning…