Archive for the Nuts Category


Revenge of the Nutzis

Food allergies are a white middle class suburban construct. No poor kids are allergic to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches – because they are instead allergic to starving to death. My mother-in-law had my ex convinced he was allergic to dogs (including developing psychosomatic symptoms) because she didn’t want pets. My boyfriend’s niece is allergic [...]

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Jerks 2010: That’s all We Need

“When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt. Republicans scoff at the “Jobs for Main Street Act” title that House Democrats put on [...]

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For Once, Common Sense Wins

by Art Lindsey III RICHMOND, Va. — A 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner’s association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday. Thank goodness. It’s nice to know that some order of sanity can still [...]

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Senator Chooses Feeling Good Over Doing Good

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) gave a speech on the senate floor yesterday to push for “Rosa’s Law”. Rosa’s law is a piece of legislation that mandate the phrase “mentally disabled” be used in place of “mentally retarded” when referring to such citizens on health and education paperwork. “In changing the language, we believe it will [...]

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Nutzis on the Loose!

I knew deep down the other day that my off-hand comment about peanut allergies and other designer suburban diseases in my post about bad journalism would elicit a response. Specifically, I knew that the moveon.org of the nut hunters would be out scanning the internet for heathen words like mine, which would threaten not only [...]

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