Day: December 16, 2013
Quinn’s Plan Apparently at Odds with God’s Plan
I’m very, very annoyed and disappointed that my plan wasn’t God’s plan. I really want to know what the reason is.
— Christine Quinn (D), quoted by the New York Daily News on her failed mayoral bid.
Nearly 5 Million Will Cease to Get Unemployment Benefits in 2014 If Program Expires
4.9 million
Number of unemployed U.S. workers who will no longer receive unemployment benefits if the program expires, according to the Washington Post.
Oxymoronic Quest for ‘Humane Execution’ is Moronic
The oxymoronic quest for humane executions only accentuates the absurdity of allowing the death penalty in a civilized society. It’s understandable that Supreme Court Justices have tried to make the process a little more palatable; and there is a meagre kind of progress in moving from the chair to the gurney. But the essential fact about both is that they come with leather straps to restrain a human being so that the state can kill him. No technology can render that process any less grotesque.
— Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker.
Those Red Shoes
We’ve always known Rush Limbaugh is racist,
And he’s proved time and again he’s sexist.
But he jumped the shark
And broke the bounds of snark
When he called Pope Francis a Marxist.