{"id":9305,"date":"2012-03-09T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2012-03-09T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:04:53","slug":"friday-bag-o-fries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=9305","title":{"rendered":"Friday Bag o’ Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My computer’s back from the shop, and what a pleasure it is to work on it again.\u00a0 Yesterday I typed a post on the other computer at Donna’s desk, where everything is six inches lower.\u00a0 I couldn’t get through a single sentence without making multiple typos.\u00a0 It didn’t help that she has her keyboard on one of those slide-out shelves underneath the desk, or that she uses Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, or that her PC wouldn’t read the Outlook address file I tried to import.<\/p>\n

I was able to peck out a few Facebook updates and short email messages on the iPad, but tablets have a long way to go before they’ll replace full-up desktop PCs.\u00a0 There are a lot of things you can’t do on an iPad.\u00a0 While the iPad may be good for surfing (as long as you don’t try to run Flash files, which are everywhere on the internet), it’s not much use when it comes to doing.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong … I like my iPad and use it a lot, but I’m in no hurry to upgrade to the newest version.<\/p>\n

I’m frying catfish tonight and trying to think what might go well with it.\u00a0 Saut\u00e9ed spinach and dirty rice?\u00a0 Yup, sounds good to me.\u00a0 Donna and Polly are working at the gun shop today, so grocery shopping is my job.<\/p>\n

A few thoughts on current events:<\/p>\n

The Blunt Amendment<\/a>, as I understand it, would allow employers, under the guise of “religious freedom,” to limit the level and kind of medical coverage available to their employees.\u00a0 Clearly one effect of the Blunt Amendment would be to undermine the Affordable Care Act, but I think its sponsors have a deeper purpose.\u00a0 In the past I’ve joked that some Republicans would welcome a return to slavery.\u00a0 I’m not sure you can joke about that these days.\u00a0 The Blunt Amendment (and don’t think for a minute Republicans won’t keep reintroducing it) is a giant step down that road because it would bring back feudalism, where our betters will determine what’s good for us.<\/p>\n

Sandra Fluke has been much in the news of late.\u00a0 What I’ll remember, ten years from now, will be the initial confusion over her last name.\u00a0 The correct pronunciation<\/a> seems to be “fluck,” which is not at all how most English speakers would say it.\u00a0 But people are allowed, after all, to tell us how their own names are pronounced.\u00a0 Look at Speaker of the House John Boehner.\u00a0 He says it’s “bay-ner,” not “boner,” and with the “oe” in there I guess he’s right … but even if he spelled it Bohner, he’d still get to pronounce it Bayner.<\/p>\n

So what’s up with El Rushbo’s attack on Tracie McMillan<\/a>, author of The American Way of Eating<\/a>?\u00a0 Rachel Maddow asked that question two nights ago during an interview with Tracie<\/a>.\u00a0 Rachel and Tracie pretended to be bewildered by Limbaugh’s animosity.\u00a0 Oh, come on.\u00a0 Limbaugh attacked her for the same reason everyone on the right attacked Barbara Ehrenreich over her book Nickel and Dimed<\/a>.\u00a0 He sees Tracie’s book as anti-American (in this case, “American” equals “cheap food of dubious nutritional value”), and he sees Tracie, who, like Barbara, went undercover to gather material for her book, as a dangerous radical and quite possibly a commie.\u00a0 Rachel and Tracie, you know that.\u00a0 Why pretend you don’t?<\/p>\n

Did you know the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service has been airing Rush Limbaugh’s show to American forces overseas since 1993?\u00a0 Did you know pressure from Republican congressmen led AFRTS to begin broadcasting the show in the first place?\u00a0 Did you know that similar pressure, this time from Democratic congressmen in 2004, did not result in AFRTS picking up Howard Stern (even though, at the time, Stern was far more popular than Limbaugh)?\u00a0 The history of Limbaugh, AFRTS, and Limbaugh’s Republican sponsors in Congress<\/a> indicates that Rush will, when all is said and done, continue to openly advocate resistance and rebellion against President Obama to American troops.\u00a0 But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to convince AFRTS to grow a spine and pull the plug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hmm … the more I look at that greasy bag of fries, the more appropriate today’s thumbnail photo seems.\u00a0 Of course if I shared my homie Rush’s sense of humor, I’d have gone looking for photos of Oxycontin and Viagra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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