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October 2009
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September 2009
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Wednesday
September 2009
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Identity Politics
I always like to correct media headlines that contain false premises with more accurate alternatives. This one stood out as a prime candidate, and also an opportunity for me to get in trouble*: “Study: Women lawmakers outperform men.”
Are women more effective lawmakers than men?
That’s the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, who say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.
My alternatives:
Of course when you start putting it like that, you realize it’s pretty much a dog bites man story.
*Hate mail is always welcome from those who lack a sense of humor.
Tuesday
September 2009
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in General/Misc.
Tim Hawkins’ parody of “Candy Man” has been making the rounds:
Friday
July 2009
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in General/Misc.
Are members of Congress on crack? Reading the garbage routinely passed off as “law,” one would think so. Alas, it was only one Senator, not the entire chamber, that seemed to confess on Thursday.
The top Republican at Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court hearing was talking about trying to schedule a Judiciary Committee hearing on the disparity between the sentencing of powder cocaine abusers and crack cocaine users.
Sessions said he and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., had been talking about it. “Sen. Leahy and I were talking during these hearings, we’re going to do that crack cocaine thing you and I have talked about before,” Sessions said.
The hearing room cracked up.
Funny.
As to the substance, the disparity between sentencing for crack and powder cocaine (the former sometimes resulting in sentences 100 times greater than the latter) is gross. It also has the appearance of being racially motivated, which certainly doesn’t help racial tensions in America.
Wednesday
May 2009
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Friday
May 2009
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Taxes, The Nanny State & A Regulated Society
A bigger government just means longer arms to hug you with!
Friday
February 2009
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Economics & the Economy
Try some bullshitisol!
Monday
January 2007
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Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Foreign Affairs & Policy
From Scrappleface:
President George Bush, under pressure from the Iraq Study Group to open negotiations with Iran, today named a lead negotiator whom he said is already on the way to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Jack Bauer, a freelance intelligence contractor and former agent with the Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU), has been dispatched to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s office for a “diplomatic listening session” aimed at determining the best way to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and shipment of arms to terrorists in Iraq.
“For some reason, people like to talk to Jack Bauer,” said Mr. Bush. “He’s a straight-shooter, good at establishing mutual understanding and I think he and President Ahmadinjad will come to a rapid agreement on terms favorable to global peace and security.”
Although Iranian government officials said no negotiations with the U.S. had been scheduled, Mr. Bush described the talks as a “unilateral diplomatic initiative that will be under way before they know it.”
Saturday
July 2006
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