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Pictured below is a perfectly ordinary Facebook conversation from this morning on the topic of economic inflation. I couldn’t resist an opportunity for wiseass humor — also perfectly ordinary. What I had not seen before was Facebook advertising pages to me based on keywords I had just typed. This screenshot is from immediately after I had posted the “inflamed shins” comment:
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
The mindset represented by this sign is what I mean when I refer to the Orange County city of Irvine as a soulless, planned-community hellscape. If I hadn’t spent 90% of my waking hours at the area’s one oasis of culture, the UCI Fine Arts village, I’d never have stayed there for four years.
Full disclosure: I took this picture in 1993, a little bit before the advent of the cameraphone. Still, I think any reasonable person will agree that it qualifies as a folly. This little roadside want ad stayed up for at least a week or two, which gave me plenty of time to remember to throw my camera in my bag before the next time I drove by.
God loves babies, and the women they rode in on. Pure and simple. Too simple, as a matter of fact.
Andrew Sullivan included this image earlier today in a post titled “The Cult of Palin”:
The core and calculated meme behind her appeal to the Christianist base — allegedly carrying a child to term when others might not — is already being propagated.
I’m not sure why he says “already,” since they’ve been trumpeting about this for quite awhile. Nevertheless, the point stands: they’re lionizing Palin for carrying to term a Down’s Syndrome child when she was 44 rather than having an abortion. That was the choice she made.
Which is exactly the point: it was a choice. And look, now they’re even using the c-word in the title of their little straight-to-video propaganda movies. Read the rest of this entry »
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