Scarabus
Crawling toward the sunlight
The deceased’s final words.
December 30th, 2011Merry Christmas from your friends the banksters!
December 30th, 2011
Newt #2
December 18th, 2011This is a rough cut. Improved version will be posted on Sunday.
Newton Leroy Two-fer: Part 1
December 17th, 2011
To Serve and Protect… Whom exactly?
December 16th, 2011In light of the way police have been behaving since at least the last two Republican National Conventions, it’s hard not to feel dubious about who’s controlling them and for what purpose.
Image – just for fun
December 16th, 2011
Take a stand against voter suppression!
December 14th, 2011Questions for the Family Research Council!!!
December 14th, 2011So what, if anything, is objectionable to you about these “lick-me” toys? Will you feature them on your website, along with pamphlets like Girl Scouts Hire Lead Singer of ‘Queer Rock’ Band and Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Would Lead to a Push for Polygamy?
Is French kissing (a.k.a. “tongue kissing” or — ready for it, Fundies? — “soul kissing”) morally wrong? Just between members of the same sex? Inherently wrong or just because it might be experienced as practice for and/or a prelude to fellatio?
Tribute to the late B. Kliban
December 13th, 2011
Please raise your hand …
December 10th, 2011
NPR Tries to Track Down Those Millionaire Job Creators
Friday 9 December 2011
by: Peter Hart, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting | Report
Dean Baker (12/9/11) flagged this NPR Morning Edition report today (12/9/11), and it’s well worth a positivity.
In the debate over the payroll tax cut, Democrats want to pay for extending the tax break with a surtax on the wealthy. Republicans claim–usually without being challenged by reporters–that a surtax on millionaires would be an attack on job-creating small-business owners.
So NPR decided to go to GOP officials and ask to speak with these small-business-owning, millionaire job-creators. Turned out there was trouble finding any:
We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.
So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to.
They did find a few wealthy business owners willing to talk–and they said their personal tax rate wasn’t a factor in their hiring decisions.
Imagine if journalists did this kind of thing all the time?
