Duel

Duel

Just pretend...

Colorado gun bills: Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords, calls for universal gun background checks

Rehearsal?

Marsha Blackburn on MSNBC just now, tapdancing around her vote against VAWA.

Listening to her opine and equivocate, the thought occurred that she's possibly being groomed to run with Jeb.

Ew.

Squicks

Just saw a television ad for "ObamaCare911", a book detailing warnings for individuals and businesses. $19.95, but if you order now it's just $4.95 . . . yada yada yada

It's endorsed by Michael Reagan, and that just about tells us all we need to know about who's putting this out there.

This Story Stinks

IN the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited potential for reasoned debate and the thoughtful exchange of ideas, an enlightening conversational bridge across the many geographic, social, cultural, ideological and economic boundaries that ordinarily separate us in life, a way to pay bills without a stamp.

Then someone invented “reader comments” and paradise was lost.

The Web, it should be said, is still a marvelous place for public debate. But when it comes to reading and understanding news stories online — like this one, for example — the medium can have a surprisingly potent effect on the message. Comments from some readers, our research shows, can significantly distort what other readers think was reported in the first place.

more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/this-story-stinks.html?_r=1&

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Disgusted and angry -- and gone

The more things change