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By Weldon Berger, on January 26th, 2012
I have been lazy about referring the two of you to other blogs. I keep forgetting that it’s perfectly legitimate in this business to just quote stuff and then say I wrote something, which makes me feel better about not having written anything. Here are some things that people I like have found other people to be fantastically wrong about.
Jack Crow on the threat to traditional marriage:
If you’re looking for what degrades or corrupts the, heh, marriage bond, you ain’t ever going to find it the affections and affectations of homosexuals. But, you will find a whole lot of sundered wedded union in the wake of deployment, military industrial centralization and the austerity which follows war upon war. That shit is disruptive. The gays, not so much.
Continue reading Blogs on Parade: “They’re Wrong About Everything” edition
By Weldon Berger, on January 25th, 2012
I didn’t get around to reading the State of the Union speech until this morning because the idiot White House didn’t post a transcript on their web site before I went to bed last night, and be damned if I’m going to subject myself to the audiovisual torment of a major political speech ever again. So I apologize to both of you for not responding immediately, as I hear that some malevolent homunculus from my former home state, Indiana, did.
The speech can be divided into two parts: the part that recognized and cashed in on all the pressure toward economic justice that Occupy created* during the past four months, and the part that didn’t.
Continue reading So Tu, Bluto?
By Weldon Berger, on October 10th, 2011
Hard to believe but there it is: Monday, October 10, will be the eighth anniversary of our first published post. Cliches notwithstanding, among the just shy of 3,000 days since I got this thing up and running have been quite a few very strange ones. Thanks for everything …
By Weldon Berger, on September 28th, 2011
We’ve added a bulletin board-like thing to the site which at some point will be integrated with the blog but for now is separate. You will find it here. It’s very basic and wholly undecorated at the moment, but presumably the decoration pixies will stop in sometime and remedy that.
Meanwhile, I’ll appreciate . . . → Read More: The fabulous new BTC News forum
By Weldon Berger, on August 17th, 2011
From Lenin’s Tomb, a lefty Brit blog run by Richard Seymour, comes this on the recent London riots:
On the history of British reactionaries blaming black music for riots and disorder:
“It is deplorable. It is tribal. And it is from America. It follows rag-time, blues, dixie, jazz, hot cha-cha and the boogie-woogie, which surely originated in the jungle. We sometimes wonder whether this is the negro’s revenge.”
Continue reading Blogs on Parade: “The Negro’s Revenge” edition
By Weldon Berger, on July 24th, 2011
I never saw Lost, but I gather it’s about being someplace strange where strange things happen.
Jack Crow’s Open Letter to A Registered Democrat
Your party hasn’t changed. It isn’t betraying you. That you ever believed otherwise is entirely to your discredit. The onus isn’t on you to figure this out. The onus is you. We’ve been carrying your credulousness for so long now, you don’t realize that you’re a burden.
Continue reading Blogs on parade, the Lost edition
By Weldon Berger, on November 1st, 2010
Actually a week or two more than 7 years, because I forgot about it. I published the first of 1,923 posts (quite a few written by others who were gracious enough to help me out) on October 22 of 2003.
The subject of that first post was Frank Gaffney’s daffy take on the . . . → Read More: Happy anniversary to me: BTC News is 7 years old
By Weldon Berger, on September 22nd, 2010
Please go visit his blog. He is perceptive and precise, he writes well and he regularly sends readers my way; I would like to return the favor.
Health insurance “reform”:
:… the authors of this law could have written in anti-defunding language if they wanted. Or tied the funding to percentages of any number . . . → Read More: Blogs on Parade: Jack Crow is grumpy today
By Weldon Berger, on September 16th, 2010
Karl Rove is being universally condemned today as a RINO—Republican in Name Only—for his up front trashing of Christine O’Donnell, the newly anointed Republican US senate candidate in Delaware.
Think about that: Karl Rove, traitor to the cause.
I found this particularly funny because courtesy of Ken Silverstein at Harper’s, I had the opportunity . . . → Read More: Election coverage from senior political analyst, Lewis Carroll
By Weldon Berger, on July 25th, 2010
As you probably have by now heard, someone leaked a massive collection of documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan between 2004-2009 to WikiLeaks, which has become the mother of all whistleblower sites. (The site is loading somewhat slowly at the moment, presumably because everybody and their intelligence service is stopping by for a . . . → Read More: The Afghanistan War Logs
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Word of the Decade Ignoranus: An ignorant asshole.
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