Month: March 2019

Free Republic, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T6 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Book Of Faces edition

Tommy T

OK, people – a short post FOR REAL this time (the available material always overwhelms my intentions to do a short post). Before we get to the Facebooky stuff, I guess by now, everyone’s seen this : So help me, this was all I could see instead: Eeew. . OK – I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff like this in my Facebook news feed : (A person named David, on the subject of Alexandria Cortez) : “Anyone the Republicans are trying so hard to destroy has got to scare them…badly. I follow her on IG, and she’s doing a … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Book Of Faces edition

Athenae, Current Affairs, Immoral Values, Language, So Called Liberal Media2 Comments

This ISN’T HELPING, Guys

Allison Hantschel

Ugh, division and disagreement are so ugly, why can’t we all just get along on important issues like babies in cages and destroying the world?  Contempt makes political compromise and progress impossible. It also makes us unhappy as people. According to the American Psychological Association, the feeling of rejection, so often experienced after being treated with contempt, increases anxiety, depression and sadness. It also damages the contemptuous person by stimulating two stress hormones, cortisol and adrenaline. In ways both public and personal, contempt causes us deep harm. While we are addicted to contempt, we at the same time hate it, just … Continue reading This ISN’T HELPING, Guys

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media1 Comment

‘Ghost Newspapers’

Allison Hantschel

Let’s talk about this before we have a single additional hearing about Facebook, Twitter and “fake news:”  … Digital First Media, controlled by Alden, announced it was laying off a third of the newsroom — leaving fewer than 70 reporters to cover a population of 3m people. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the circulation of the Denver Post has more than halved from 413,676 in 2013 to about 170,000 today. DFM employees across the country — from San Francisco to New York — protested against their owners. “We wanted to let [the public] know. People were still blaming … Continue reading ‘Ghost Newspapers’

Athenae, Big Damn Heroes, LOL

Not Everything Sucks

Allison Hantschel

The MERL had a bat in its library: First things first, we gave him rehydration fluid as he was very thirsty, having probably been trapped in the store for a few days at least. Fortunately, he was completely uninjured. We had a look round the outside of the building to try and see how he might have got in but with no windows, no doors to the outside, no louvres or obvious ventilation shafts we couldn’t spot anything. However, as a bat can get through a gap as small as a couple of centimetres and it’s a huge building, it … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

Athenae, Bigotry, Economy

People Are Such Assholes, I Am Exhausted

Allison Hantschel

Nope. Nope nope nope. Just made a donation to The Night Ministry in honor of these pricks because I cannot with “poor gay children near my park will ruin my life” right now: In a question to The Crib’s leaders, parent James Walsh echoed the sentiments of several parents who — in any other neighborhood — say they likely would have supported the idea of a youth homeless shelter. “I think everybody in this room thinks the Night Ministry does amazing work,” he said. “(But) you’ve searched for two years, and you couldn’t find a space that isn’t a stone’s … Continue reading People Are Such Assholes, I Am Exhausted