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Sully Endorses Ron Paul. And Fuck You, Roger Ailes.
Andrew Sullivan over at The Daily Dish endorses Ron Paul as the GOP primary candidate. (Keep in mind that this is simply the GOP primary endorsement, not the presidential race endorsement. Sully, a tempered libertarian, has been vocally more satisfied with Obama’s performance than even most liberals.)
He would never take $1.8 million from Freddie Mac. He would never disown Reagan, as Romney once did. He would never speak of lynching Bernanke, as Perry threatened. When he answers a question, you can see that he is genuinely listening to it and responding – rather than searching, Bachmann-like, for the one-liner to rouse the base. He is, in other words, a decent fellow, and that’s an adjective I don’t use lightly. We need more decency among Republicans.
He ends the post with a bit of a random note, probably in reference to Fox’s less than stellar coverage of Ron Paul as a viable candidate.
Oh, and fuck you, Roger Ailes.
If you’re not familiar with the President of Fox News who is almost too evil to be real, check out the excellent “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory,” which is essentially everything you need to know about the guy even Rupert Murdoch fears.
Memes and stuff I’ve been reading
Thanks to depression killing whatever creative impetus I had to create, over the last month my blog has basically devolved into re-blogs of stuff I’ve been looking at/reading.
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“His candidacy is ‘froth’ with disappointment and failure,” says a commenter at Joe.My.God.
3. A writer of Family Guy blogs about his arrest at Occupy LA.
4. Louis CK produced a show and sold it for $5 on his website for either streaming or a direct download as yours to keep and share and watch forever. Bless his asshole-laced-with-populism heart, he admits in a statement on his site he made less money than he would have by doing a third party production/distribution, but wanted to prove that not everyone would pirate it. The liberal media responds with accolades.
I paid for the show; it wasn’t quite Shameless (2007) or Chewed Up (2008) quality, but definitely on par or slightly funnier than Hilarious (2010)
5. Yanno BuzzFeed. The host site of That Funny Meme you saw on Facebook? Ben Smith of Politico has just been hired by them as CEO to write and hire reporters who will also write original political content. NYTimes reports this a sign of further integration of the social media and the news.
Weird News Wednesday: Turkeynomics – The Rising Price of Thanksgiving
Matt Ygelsias breaks it down at Slate:
Back in September 2001, annual per capita disposable income was $27,147, and a whole turkey cost $1.162 per pound. (None of these numbers has been adjusted for inflation, so as to isolate turkey inflation from larger price trends.)….
Here in the fall of 2011, per-capita disposable income is up to $37,088, but frozen turkey costs $1.676 per pound, meaning you could buy scarcely more than 22,000 pounds worth of whole frozen birds.
But even with the rising cost of Turkey in general, every November, Turkey demand goes through the roof and prices go down as classic capitalistic competition to snag the most customers ensues. Compared to the rest of the season, the actual cost now for Turkey should be about 10% cheaper, according to Yglesias.
600,000 Young Adults Gain Health Insurance in 2011 Under Obamacare
Forbes confirms that the Affordable Care Act is doing something it promised:
The provision of the law that permits young adults under 26, long the largest uninsured demographic in the country, to remain on their parents’ health insurance program resulted in at least 600,000 newly insured Americans during the first quarter of 2011…
The Health & Human Services Department had estimated that the changes in the law would result in about 1.2 million new enrollees in 2011. However, according to Aaron Smith, the executive director of a Washington based non-profit that advocates for the young, it now looks as if that number will be exceeded.
I’ll file this one under liberal talking points no one is talking about.
Comic-Con NY Teaser
Hi. Just thought I’d make all the non-NY nerds jealous out there.
BBL guyz.
Update:
New York Comic Con with Boba Fett Chicken and Kevin Smith (pics!)
I googled “chicken on a leash.” Youtube did not disappoint.
Yup, that’s a chicken on leash.
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