No, this thread did not shoot a bullet into Eric Cantor's non-office.
- For women, the health insurance reform law isn't all sunshine and rainbows, and more work remains to be done on achieving gender equity in health care.
- Former President George W. Bush has a compulsive need for hand sanitizer. Unfortunately, he fits former President Bill Clinton's shirt into that category.
- Move over Harry Potter: invisibility cloaks are on the way.
- I had to post it sometime, so it might as well be now: Wired's Arachnid Hall of Fame.
- Some California campaign notes: GOP Gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman was on the board of Goldman-Sachs. The same Goldman-Sachs that undermined California's credit rating to make a few extra million for their other clients. Oh, and Carly Fiorina, the failed CEO who now deems herself worthy to replace Senator Boxer, is a global warming denier who believes that our landmark environmental legislation, AB-32, is a "job killer." Where do the Republicans come up with these people?
- Glenn Beck believes that cap and trade is really bad. How bad? This bad:
It's just like 9/11 all over again, except we didn't have the burning buildings.
No, I'm absolutely serious. Here's the video:
The right wing needs to understand something clearly: you don't get to claim that policy initiatives proposed by Democrats are tantamount to armageddon, Stalin, Hitler, the 9/11 attacks, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and an internal contradiction of the space-time continuum that will lead to the destruction of the universe--and then turn around and say that the last thing you wanted was to see people stirred to violence. You either sincerely think it's bad enough to merit violent resistance or you don't. Pick a side and stick with it.
- And speaking of Glenn Beck: Roger Ailes is going all mafioso against Fox News employees uncomfortable with the fact that Beck is becoming the face of the network.