Thoughts on my daughter's 16th birthday

My darling daughter turns 16 today. In celebration, she and her mother are getting tattoos. I think that is pretty damn cool.

On Birthers

on Blogging

Just not feeling it anymore.
Not sure if i need a complete break for a while but expect things to be very sporadic until further notice.

An inconvenient truth about Healthcare

Conservatives Want You To Shop For Your Medical Care. Do You? | The New Republic: "There’s something terribly wrong with the whole notion of patients as “consumers” and health care as simply a financial transaction."

I Really Must stop Reading Andrew Sullivan

The Quiet End To Roe v. Wade? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast:

"My italics. The logic of the whole piece is that this is a likely future, not a present reality. But it's easy to misread. What's dismaying is that this sloppy sentence leads Ponnuru to dismiss Lithwick's entire body of work as fallacious. It's anything but."

Because he keeps giving hacks a pass when they willfully misrepresent something that is said. The sentence in question is not "easy to misread" if you are, like Ramesh Ponnuru, a summa cum laude graduate of one of the top 10 universities in the world. I seemed to comprehend it just fine despite being in a significantly weakened state of mental agility and having a degree from only a lowly Canadian school.

Strange Tweet of The Day - Glenn Greenwald Edition

Twitter / @Glenn Greenwald: How small and broken a bra ...:

"How small and broken a brain is required to equate (a) praise for a candidate's specific views & their impact with (b) supporting them?"

How silly of me to think that saying lots of nice things about someone is supporting them. I guess I need a new dictionary.
Mr Greenwald is apparently feeling the heat of being outed as not exactly a leftist. Not that it should have been news to anyone that ever paid attention. I often enjoy reading his stuff but I never had any illusion that he shared my pinko family values.

This really is the Al Franken Decade

Al Franken To Steve Jobs On iPhone Tracking: I Want Answers | TPM Idea Lab: "Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) wants answers. After reports Wednesday that Apple's iPhones and iPads secretly store information of the user's location, Franken wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs a strongly worded letter."