I’m not particularly knowlegeable about the nation’s nursing shortage, except I know that there is one, and it is no joke. California seems to have come up with a solution: California hospitals are struggling to meet a new, first-in-the-nation requirement that they have one nurse on duty for every five patients at all times, and officials say most institutions are … Read More
Worst. President. Ever.
According to Gallup, Bush’s approval rating is the lowest of any president in March of their 2nd term – 45%. Here are the ratings for presidents as recorded by Gallup in the March following their re-election: Truman, 1949: 57%.Eisenhower, 1957: 65%. Johnson, 1965: 69%. Nixon, 1973: 57%.Reagan, 1985: 56%.Clinton, 1997: 59% . Bush, 2005: 45% .
What Sean Hannity *Really* Thinks of the Pope
From January 2003: COLMES: …And before you respond, let me just put up what the pope says. “No to war,” says Pope John Paul II. “during his annual address to scores of diplomatic emissaries to the Vatican… ‘War is not always inevitable,’ he said. ‘It is always a defeat for humanity.’” Are these a bunch of wild-eyed liberal loonies? HANNITY: … Read More
Degree Confluence Project
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here. Here’s a photo and story from the GPS convergence location of 36°N 80°W, which is roughly 2.8 miles (4.4 km) NNE of High Point, … Read More
GannonGuckertGosch?
This is pretty weird. The Des Moines Register is saying that Jeff Gannon (the White House conservative "journalist" who was allowed into the White House press pool although he had no journalistic experience and was in fact a gay male escort who advertised his services on the Internet but that’s okay because his real name was James Guckert and he … Read More
Not Poped Out
The Rude Pundit is really enjoying all this dead Pope news: The Rude Pundit doesn’t want to hear about fuck-all else: no damn Abu Ghraib attack, no damn Tom DeLay-is-evil bullshit, and certainly not a fuckin’ word about the WMD intelligence report that says we’re all fucked. Who the hell needs that? Don’t harsh the Rude Pundit’s Pope corpse buzz. … Read More
How To Talk To Your Teen About Sex
Thank God for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. Without it, I wouldn’t know have discovered this informative article about how to talk to my teen about sex: First, put a paper bag over your head. Then, speak slowly and clearly. So far, I’m not impressed with the advice. Should I cut out eyeholes or not? Ah, don’t you wish … Read More
Wanker of the Day
Today’s award goes to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) who said, on Sunday: I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there … Read More
Drunken Iraqi Liar Provided Most of Rummy’s Intelligence On Iraq’s WMDs
Why am I not suprised at this?
Does The Bible Make Me Look Fat In This Dress?
CultureKitchen‘s experience with an eating disorder caused her to examine an aspect of L’Affaire Schiavo that most everybody else ignored — the body and the Bible. Read it if only because it is one of the best titles to a blog post ever written.
And What About Those Who WANT To Live?
Majikthise is so right (and cute) when she writes: The Republicans seem awfully blase about medical care for the disabled patients who want to live… Doctors Lobbying to Halt Cuts to Medicare Payments WASHINGTON, April 3 – Doctors are mobilizing a nationwide lobbying campaign to stave off cuts in their Medicare fees as Congress hunts for ways to rein in … Read More
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
Here. Nope. No Jeff Gannon.
And I Thought MY Life Was A Waste
Question: What’s more pathetic than standing in line at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles for 60+ days in order to be one of the first to see what is sure to be another really bad Star Wars movie? Answer: maintaining a blog about standing in line at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles for 60+ days in order to … Read More
World Nut Daily Journalism
This is funny. The conservative "journalism" website WorldNetDaily has posted a story here about CBS’s plan to make a Terri Schiavo made-for-TV movie: CBS is rushing a Terri Schiavo TV movie into production so that it can air the biopic during the May ratings sweeps. […] CBS’ Terri story reportedly will feature "Felicity" star Keri Russell to star as America’s … Read More