Pictures of Dessie
There are now pictures of the town of Dessie up for your viewing pleasure, readers. Dessie was one weird place, but it kind of grew on me.
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Photos of Addis Ababa
I’ve put up two new photosets at Flickr: Addis Ababa, April/May 2009 Mr Martin’s Cozy Place Check them out if you are interested, readers. There are lots more where those came from…
Back from travels
I’m back, readers, from 25 days of traveling in Ethiopia. I took nearly 1000 photographs during the course of my travels. Watch this blog for links to Flickr over the next couple of weeks, if you are interested.
Open Thread: Taking a break
If it isn’t obvious by now, readers, I’m taking a break from this blog. I will be back in a couple more weeks.
Scaremare
As usual, Digby is right — voting for Chris Matthews for the US Senate would be a horrible, horrible mistake. I agree with Digby 100%: … Matthews is a bridge too far. I could never vote for, raise funds for or in any other way help Chris Matthews become a member of the Senate and [...]
Shorter Costco Coulter
Shorter Costco Coulter, yesterday and today: ZOMG LOL, Gay People Are Funny Forever!!!!!!11!!!!!111!!
“La-di-frickin-da”
Readers, what in the HELL were the editors of the New York Times smoking when they decided to usher Timothy Egan’s guest column into print on Saturday? We all know that the Times has a remarkable penchant for cramming a whole lot of stupid into their op-ed page, but Egan’s screed is really something else. [...]
Right-wing healthcare
Right-wingers love to say things like, “What does it matter if you don’t have health insurance? You can always just go to the hospital!” Some Ohio AM-radio wingnuts just gave us a good example of this foolishness: TAMNY: … the next time we hear about how there’s 40 million uninsured Americans in terms of health, [...]
Damned if they do…
Whenever a group of crazed radical-Islamist extremists commits some horrible act of terrorism, such as the recent attacks in Bombay, wingnuts expect all Muslims everywhere to condemn it. Fair enough. But when they do, wingnuts just sneer and say “they don’t really mean it.” Look at the Costco Coulter’s reaction today: Some ignorant conservatives, along [...]
Mirabile dictu
“A Historic Victory,” read the blog-post title that popped up in my RSS reader last night. David Horowitz was weighing in on Obama’s victory. I couldn’t wait to see what he had to say, readers. I was expecting an unhinged screed, but, mirabile dictu, David Horowitz sounded halfway reasonable for once: I think it’s important [...]
