A SC Solution?

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Monday April 26, 2010 · 6:52 PM PDT

2010/04/26 · 18:52

I feel that imbecile Andre Bauer (not the wonderful actor Andre Braugher, rather the Lt. Gov. of South Carolina) who's talking about how great it is to lazily kick back and sponge off the generous government is, really ought to try it. But while I'd love to see him (and his right-wing pledge buddies) all living large on welfare, that seems unlikely in the short term.

All the breathless claims from the right about how much fun it is to be poor and without work are lies of course. So, why not put some enterprising young film-maker to the task of actually living on government assistance for a while, so she can show everyone all the good clean all-American fun that poverty entails? The Macaca moment saved Virginia some embarrassment in the long term after all and this lie needs to be exploded.
Can anyone out there think of a better way to do that?
Thoughts?

Remember the... Teabag?

leemoyer

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 7:11 PM PDT

2009/04/09 · 19:11

The unthinking just happened - I got a call from 512-646-1431. From someone my phone assured me was CALL CENTER, TX.

The robot (with the voice of someone who might be that chuckle-headed "actor" Chuck Norris) called to ask me if I was aware of Teabagging. I wish I'd had the patience to wade through the rest of his right-wing BS, but after 8 years of REAL horror in DC, I did not and hung up with a few well placed syllables and a specific hand gesture toward Texas. I hope that someone out there will document the robo-speech more fully.

And while I hope all this robo-calling costs them major bank, I suspect they're more like Homer Simpson and his low-budget illegality as he attempted to futilely prove he really does surrounds us.

A Modest Request to Further the Truth

leemoyer

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Friday December 12, 2008 · 2:58 PM PST

2008/12/12 · 14:58

I understand that getting people to read one's journal entries is a challenge.
Heaven knows I've refrained from writing as most of my thoughts are more brilliantly (and expediently) realized by others. But I have an earnest request:

Please, please stop posting long well-written snark without appropriate warnings at the beginning of the piece. I believe that we are right to call out "journalists" when they pass off fantasy as fact, so let's not muddy the waters of actual debate. I enjoy good snark, but i do not enjoy being ambushed by it, or, Flying Spaghetti Monster forfend, have to rescind a concerned email to friends when they tell me I've missed the point of a post I took seriously.

I ask that we be part of the cure, not part of the problem.
Thank you.

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