Was it getting my sphincter bleached, is that what I earned my income for? No that would be you.
AUGUST 17, 2018
Hallandale Beach, Fla., Mayor Keith London to City Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, as the pair exchanged personal attacks during a debate about the budget.
Source: The Miami Herald
Smart and policy-oriented women -- women who can run circles around comparable men, who would make excellent governors -- are still being punished like adolescent girls who lose popularity in junior high because they are too smart.
AUGUST 16, 2018
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, a political scientist at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
Source: Governing
I will never drink Sam Adam's beer again!
AUGUST 15, 2018
Somerville, Mass., Mayor Joseph Curtatone, in response to news that the company's cofounder dined with and thanked President Trump for a corporate tax cut.
Source: The Hill
Are you f---ing kidding me?
AUGUST 14, 2018
Ben Jealous, the Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, when asked by a reporter if he identifies as a socialist. He has since apologized.
Source: Tribune News Service
What's next? Tax preparation [advice] from Al Capone?
AUGUST 13, 2018
Justin Nelson's reaction to President Trump meeting with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to discuss criminal justice reform. Paxton has been indicted on fraud charges, and Nelson is running to unseat him in November.
Source: Tribune News Service
References to the Holocaust and to cancer as ‘a disease of choice’ had already been removed from the fall 2018 edition.
AUGUST 10, 2018
Statement from the University of North Carolina on changes it helped make in a fitness textbook that previously said, "The people in the [concentration] camps who did not tap into the strength that comes from recognizing their intrinsic worth succumbed to the brutality to which they were subjected."
Source: The News & Observer
We're becoming Germany.
AUGUST 9, 2018
An immigration lawyer, after news that the Trump administration is considering making it all but impossible for legal immigrants to become citizens if they have ever used government aid.
2 comments:
Thanks for posting. I look forward to these quick bites of news.
Sam Adams got scratched off my list when they tried to muscle the St. Patrick's Day parade organizers in NYC about including groups that were not in sync with the parade's guidelines. Been a couple of years, and I'm doing just fine.
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