Gone Fishin’
The Shakespearean Daily Diss is on hiatus while we are downtown at DragonCon. Normal taunting will resume some time next week. Political crooks and panderers, you’re still on notice!
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Gold were as good as twenty orators,
And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything.” –Richard III, 4.2.38-39
Plan B Is Not Abortion
The Plan B contraceptive is not an abortifacient. How, then, does ABC fail even to mention that in its coverage of opposition to the drug–in a story that features only a conservative complaint that the public “isn’t well informed”? The network seems to be engaging in deliberate sleight of hand:
Surveys indicate the majority of Americans [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Tommy Emmanuel’s “Angelina”
Dig it.
“Not able to produce more accusation
Than your own weak-hing’d fancy–something savors
Of tyranny, and will ignoble make you,
Yea, scandalous to the world.” –The Winter’s Tale, 2.3.117-20
RIP Katherine Harris
That ten million Harris pledged to finance her ill-conceived Senate run? Not happening. Even the ludicrous Harris, it seems, has sensed the futility of her campaign. Look for her to blame anybody but herself when she abandons the race:
In an emotional announcement on national TV in March, Harris said she would use [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I must no more believe thee in this point
Than I will trust a sickly appetite,
That loathes even as it longs.” –The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1.3.87-90
The Assault on Planetary Values
Watch as Bill Maher uses the reclassification of Pluto in a series of hilarious metaphors for the neoconservative cult of ignorance:
“An international panel of ’scientists’ has decided to cut and run on the planet Pluto.”
“As long as George Bush is president, the science is still out on science.”
“Many of my Republican friends got very excited [...]
Thank You, Alabama Democratic Party…
…for selectively enforcing a previously ignored rule in order to disqualify a woman who might have been your first openly gay legislator:
Attorney Bobby Segall told the committee earlier Thursday that if the party disqualified Todd for not filing a financial disclosure form with the party chairman it would also have to disqualify the party’s nominee [...]
Qui Bono?
Medicare Part D, written by and for the pharmaceutical corporations, amounted to a huge giveaway to the tune of billions. If you have any doubts as to the bill’s authorship, note that it removes the government’s power to negotiate drug prices, per Rep. Waxman’s (D-CA) report:
The prices offered by the ten Medicare drug plans [...]
