We’ve come a long way, you readers and I, these nine years. And if any of you are still around, you know I haven’t been updating this blog much any more. There are many reasons for this. Facebook basically destroyed the blogosphere, allowing people to interact and share items the way only folks with blogs [...]
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LYT on April 17, 2011, at 9:14 pm | Permalink | 7 backtalkers - (Comments are closed) | Category: Announcements, Family, Links of the week, Movies, Personal, Political, Writing |
Despite Hal’s usual, consistent cheap shots at wrestling fans, I enjoyed this…. The problem, of course, is that libertarians are supernaturally naive. They operate in neurotic denial of human nature. Like most ideologies—communism, laissez-faire capitalism, anarchism—libertarianism is based on the belief or disingenuous claim that human beings will naturally behave well. All evidence cries out to [...] First one I’ve ever heard that didn’t begin “The state of our union is strong!” Nice to have a president who will own up to error sometimes. In the ongoing debate about health care, right-wingers who don’t want the government involved consistently point to the post office as an example of how terribly the government runs things. Now, I’m not gonna pretend that I like lining up with my package to France, the week before Christmas, when there are only two clerks on [...] LYT on September 17, 2009, at 10:59 pm | Permalink | 4 backtalkers - (Comments are closed) | Category: Personal, Political |
It occurred to me yesterday that Michael Moore movies actually have a lot in common with Tyler Perry movies. Both lure the viewer in with the expectation of some comedically righteous outbursts from a funny fat person, in order to ease you into a far more depressing story about suffering people, with the end goal [...] LYT on September 17, 2009, at 7:36 pm | Permalink | 2 backtalkers - (Comments are closed) | Category: Movies, Political, Reviews, Uncategorized |
Really. Is it? This has been swirling through my mind since the death of Ted Kennedy, one of the right-wing’s most hated Democrats. If you honestly hated the guy in life, should you be obliged to suspend that hate in death? I don’t think anyone argued on the day of Saddam Hussein’s execution that we should say [...] LYT on September 4, 2009, at 6:54 pm | Permalink | 5 backtalkers - (Comments are closed) | Category: Personal, Political |
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