Category Archives: crossposted on TADA

Open Thread and Link Farm: Your Heart Is Thrashing Like That All The Time Edition

Y’all remember how this works, right? Man Dies Of Toothache. “A no-longer-living, no-longer-breathing example of the ‘push the patient to the edge of financial desperation’ theory of health care cost controls. It turns out that the quality of a frightened, … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Link farms | 16 Comments

Happy Labor Day

Via Unequally Yoked. (Why yes, that is Batman.)

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, crossposted on TADA | Comments Off on Happy Labor Day

We Should Have The Right To Record On-Duty Police

It’s not often I agree with Glenn Reynolds, but his editorial about the recent trend of police harassing and arresting citizens for recording the police as they publicly perform their duties is spot-on. The most outrageous example may be Tiawanda … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Prisons and Justice and Police | 2 Comments

Movies should show that good people can still be bigots

Patricia Turner considers the depictions of white characters in The Help: With one possible exception, the white women are remarkably unlikable, and not just because of their racism. Like the housewives portrayed in reality television shows, the housewives of Jackson … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Race, racism and related issues | 21 Comments

Does Welfare Drug Testing Really Lose Money?

I think a drug testing requirement is a bad idea, because the lives of drug users are not less valuable than the lives of other people. Another argument is that testing welfare applicants for drugs will cost more than it … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, In the news | 11 Comments

Political cartoon: How Democracy Works

[spoiler]The cartoon has three panels. Each panel shows a crowd of milling citizens, who vary in sex, race, and age, yelling up to a giant white man wearing a suit and tie. The giant’s head is far distant from the … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, crossposted on TADA | 7 Comments

The single stupidist thing any Nice Guy (TM) has ever written

Joe Tom Collins writes: When the Feminists came for the Rapists, I remained silent; I was not a Rapist. When they locked up the stalkers, I remained silent; I was not a stalker. When they came for the Players, I … Continue reading

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, crossposted on TADA | 22 Comments

Leave it to the voters to decide who is a viable candidate: On the media’s non-coverage of Ron Paul

Kevin Drum and Jonathan Bernstein say essentially the same thing regarding the press deciding not to cover Ron Paul’s campaign, which I’d sum up as: It’s obvious Paul has no chance of being the next President, so the press is … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Elections and politics, Media criticism | 6 Comments

Rape Victims Ordered To Pay Child Support

So a man gets raped by a woman woman rapes a man; the woman gets pregnant and raises the child. Should the father be forced to pay child support? Danny says no; Clarissa says yes. (The question was brought up … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Families structures, divorce, etc, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 86 Comments

Please Stop Snarking About Marcus Bachmann’s Sexual Orientation

There’s been a lot of smarmy talk about Marcus Bachmann, the husband of anti-gay presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, being secretly gay. Not because anyone knows of him having actually, you know, had sex with men. But because of the way … Continue reading

Posted in crossposted on TADA, Homophobic zaniness/more LGBTQ issues | 28 Comments