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Al Sharpton Needs To Shut Up. Period.

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It’s time for Al Sharpton to shut up. It’s time; case closed. It’s also time for mass-media to stop foisting this charlatan on us. He has been discredited over and over and over and over and………………… Enough already. Integrity is the cornerstone of any person’s reputation: “Sharp-tongue” has none. So it’s time for him to shut the f*** up. Period.

Last week, he and Jesse “James” Jackson injected themselves in the Connecticut Democratic primary race by endorsing Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman. Prima facie that’s okay; they do have the right to endorse any candidate that they want to. But it’s when you dig a little deeper that you expose one of Sharptongue’s many flaws: he is both a political pimp and a political whore, at the same time.

“A Stupid Idea Implemented by Meat Heads” (Second in a Series of Slanders Against New York’s Minor Ballot Status Parties)

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The title of this piece is actually stolen from a well-known political consultant/lobbyist, but I’ve utter confidence he’d not want his authorship of this bon mot to be widely disseminated, so I’m jumping his claim and taking it for my own. He was speaking of the Working Families Party (WFP), and so am I.

I have nothing against adding more parties to the ballot; let a thousand flowers bloom in our glorious democracy! Let’s lower the scandalously high signature threshold for independent candidates, but eliminate cross-endorsements (except in the case of qualified incumbent judges, who should, ideally, be exempted from facing partisan campaigns for re-election; although retention elections would be an even better idea).  Parties should run their own candidates instead of operating glorifed extortion rackets preying upon others.

Scrutinizing Sanitation

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As I recall from high school Latin, “scrute” is trash, and the word scrutinize, from which it is derived, means to pick through the trash.  Using data from the Governments Division of the Census Bureau, and the New York State and U.S. Departments of Labor, this essay will pick through the trash at the NYC Department of Sanitation to find out what kind of deal we are getting.  That isn’t as easy as for, say, schools and policing, which are provided in every locality, because not everyone has public trash collection.  But I did the best I can, and from what I can see, our deal stinks.

Scrutinizing Sanitation

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As I recall from high school Latin, “scrute” is trash, and the word scrutinize, from which it is derived, means to pick through the trash.  Using data from the Governments Division of the Census Bureau, and the New York State and U.S. Departments of Labor, this essay will pick through the trash at the NYC Department of Sanitation to find out what kind of deal we are getting.  That isn’t as easy as for, say, schools and policing, which are provided in every locality, because not everyone has public trash collection.  But I did the best I can, and from what I can see, our deal stinks.

Scrutinizing Sanitation

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As I recall from high school Latin, “scrute” is trash, and the word scrutinize, from which it is derived, means to pick through the trash.  Using data from the Governments Division of the Census Bureau, and the New York State and U.S. Departments of Labor, this essay will pick through the trash at the NYC Department of Sanitation to find out what kind of deal we are getting.  That isn’t as easy as for, say, schools and policing, which are provided in every locality, because not everyone has public trash collection.  But I did the best I can, and from what I can see, our deal stinks.

Scrutinizing Sanitation

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As I recall from high school Latin, “scrute” is trash, and the word scrutinize, from which it is derived, means to pick through the trash.  Using data from the Governments Division of the Census Bureau, and the New York State and U.S. Departments of Labor, this essay will pick through the trash at the NYC Department of Sanitation to find out what kind of deal we are getting.  That isn’t as easy as for, say, schools and policing, which are provided in every locality, because not everyone has public trash collection.  But I did the best I can, and from what I can see, our deal stinks.

Don’t Have a Kaus, Mickey!

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"The truth is that many gay men are acting like Bill Clinton, because, like Bill Clinton, they are full of testosterone, and, like Bill Clinton, they can get sex when they want. Clinton gets it and has gotten it because of his charm and his power (which he regularly abused for sexual harassment purposes). Many straight men would do the same if they could get away with it. Can you imagine the lines for straight bathhouses if women were as eager to get it on with strangers as men are?

Gay men get it because their emotional and sexual universe is all-male and so twice as testosterone-laden as the straight male sexual universe. [Boldface added]" – Andrew Sullivan

Sweating Out Kyoto

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It’s over 90 degrees as I sit here, and I’m thinking about energy, the environment, and leadership.  If you read my prior post on the subject, you know that I believe leaders are those who can convince people to cooperate toward a common goal, trusting that their goodwill will not be abused by those who are just out for themselves.  I said there was no leadership on energy.

We don’t have air conditioning because in this climate, unless you have it and become dependent on it, you only really miss it a few days a year a few years a decade.  And on those days, you are begged not to use it.  With energy scarce and the environment only capable of holding so much carbon, with with so many billions living in multiple dwellings without cross ventilation, with so many people who are old and without health problems, I’ve decided air conditioning is one amenity we can live without.  But somewhere in the west, I’m sure Dick Cheney, who considers conservation a “personal virtue,” has an air conditioned dog house.

Sweating Out Kyoto

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It’s over 90 degrees as I sit here, and I’m thinking about energy, the environment, and leadership.  If you read my prior post on the subject, you know that I believe leaders are those who can convince people to cooperate toward a common goal, trusting that their goodwill will not be abused by those who are just out for themselves.  I said there was no leadership on energy.

We don’t have air conditioning because in this climate, unless you have it and become dependent on it, you only really miss it a few days a year a few years a decade.  And on those days, you are begged not to use it.  With energy scarce and the environment only capable of holding so much carbon, with with so many billions living in multiple dwellings without cross ventilation, with so many people who are old and without health problems, I’ve decided air conditioning is one amenity we can live without.  But somewhere in the west, I’m sure Dick Cheney, who considers conservation a “personal virtue,” has an air conditioned dog house.