http://www.itisdancing.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:16:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apres Levitt et Dubner, et à cher frère Cadre. When America had industry we were in the unique position of being so big that you could feasibly dump a thousand miles away without creating an international incident. This is why we invented the biggest smokestacks, pumping waste into the air to fall dozens, hundreds, a thousand ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/197 Behold this classy ad for some kind of fascist rally or something being held by Michelle Bachmann: 1) Couldn't you have found something less lynchy than a lasso, what with race being in the news ex. Jackson Jive, a Georgia peckerwood making and promoting a veiled death threat to a representative from ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/196 1) It was a dark and stormy night, and Pat Boone was depressed about the poor fortunes of his close personal and professional friend Bob Dole. As he prepared to cross the Canadian border and leave this undeserving nation forever, around the corner appeared the surviving Sex Pistols, each erect.2) ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/194 This is one of the more lucid things I've read in a while. I have an adjunct I'm working on: originally a short observation on women in the workplace, but this brings it into finer focus. http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/192 BE FAT WITH ME, MISTER MOYERS http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/191 It has evidently become policy in death-penalty states to ignore almost all exculpatory evidence, including that which casts a serious pall on the original trial. http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/189 Something touches every free man deep inside when he reads a line of Hunter Thompson. Some make a career of biting him, although some wind up simply biting the drug-frenzy culture that sprang up around him, aping his carriage or his sense of adventure. That is not what that is. ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/188 (EDIT: Well, supposed to be brief, anyway. You know how I am.) In my Soc 101 class I had this talented West African professor who had to learn to basically go through the motions, because 101 classes are basically teaching high school. 300 was recent and there was presumptive support for ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/186 Via Greenwald, here is Digby on the taser and its accompanying rise in social torture and authoritarian police behavior. I link this for two reasons: (A) I agree with her 100% on this and (B) I once supported the development of microwave non-lethal weaponry, at least in theory. I've increasingly ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/185 The tea-party assholes have hilariously worthless precedents - Slacktivist's favorite, because he's been on a semi-laudable indignation kick lately, is a group of petulant idiots that called itself Indignation in the 50s and 60s. What they represent right now is the right-wing fringe dusting the rust off of its paralegal ... http://www.itisdancing.com/archives/184