NYTimes: Rep. Allen West Concedes After Florida Recount Fight

Good riddance. I love it when reason triumphs over irrationality. – NYTimes: Rep. Allen West Concedes After Florida Recount Fight
http://nyti.ms/UcuT1Z

Bitter, party of one

Or, how Mitt Romney explains losing the election to Barack Obama.

I don’t want to hear it

I voted how I voted, and lots of other people are voting how they’re going to vote. I encourage all of my fellow registered voters to go cast their ballots, and then kindly not post a zillion partisan things on their FB timelines. Not like I’ve been going there much lately except for work anyway, but today is one day where you could not, for love or money, get me to go on Facebook. As usual, the ha ha guy says it best.

Not at all suspicious

Oh, Republicans of the Missouri House of Representatives. You have to know that if inducting Rush Limbaugh into the Hall of Famous Missourians requires a secret ceremony, you might not be doing the right thing. Especially if you 1) don’t invite any of your Democrat colleagues and 2) only tell reporters a half hour before the event. Guilty much?

But he’s still responsible for Charlie Sheen

President Obama might have had a nice day today, but I saw everybody’s favorite tv president, Jed Bartlett, today in Port Authority. Martin Sheen might very well be awesome, but having fathered Charlie Sheen knocks him down to just aight.

In search of a less disappointing cure

I think that it is amazing that there are organizations that take a stand against cancer.  Susan G. Komen For the Cure (do not mess with the name), which funds breast cancer research and provides grants to organizations that provide preventative screenings, is the best-known and best-funded breast cancer charity in the United States. Komen just announced that it will no longer provide grants to Planned Parenthood, as of this year. Although the organization declined to give a reason, many people believe that this is because the anti-choice stances of those who comprise Komen’s leadership.

I find it pretty galling that an organization that purports to want to eliminate breast cancer would remove a reliable source of low-cost mammograms from low-income women. I’m not omniscient, but it seems to me that the speculation over what prompted Komen to pull this funding is probably dead on. Still, I’ll leave the expressions of annoyance/outrage/disappointment to those who express things better than I do. My response is simple: first, I will never again knowingly purchase something that funds the Komen organization. I’m not defeatist, and I don’t think that any non-discriminating cancer charity should suffer in the fallout over this. Instead, I’ll keep funding Planned Parenthood (as will a lot of other people who are upset over Komen’s move) and also donate to the Young Survival Coalition, which seems to have a more expansive view of what a breast cancer organization can do for people than Komen does (based on their partners).

Pink really isn’t my color anyway (in case you’re wondering what is: harlot red).

Internet Blackout Day

Today, January 18, 2012,  several web sites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, and popular sites have gone dark to protest PIPA/SOPA. Here’s an explanation of what PIPA/SOPA are, and a thoughtful analysis on TheVerge about why they do not agree with it.

Wikipedia, January 18, 2012

Some more Philly

So Philly’s mayor, Mike Nutter, somehow knows the words to Rapper’s Delight, which is not an easy song to rap. Also, he’s not afraid to tell people not to be assholes!

Factor in the number of Wawas within its city limits, and Philadelphia is looking better and better all the time.

Total downgrade

Seriously, Kal Penn???

It’s a tarp!

I’d love to believe that Mitch McConnell and the rest of Congress (not just the Republicans) have suddenly become a lot less crazy, but recent political history (2009 – now, for instance) has convinced me that this is unlikely to be the case. I can’t even imagine what their end game is here.