Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-14

If O won't ask Congress to increase debt to create jobs then he should demand taxes on the rich, who are not spending, to create jobs. # OMG Moronic news "analysis" gives O exactly the wrong advice. The problem is jobs not deficits. http://t.co/aHpynoK # If the country's credit is so bad, why are people rushing into treasury bonds, driving down interest rates? # The stock market is down because investors are starting to recognize the increasing likelihood of a double dip recession. # If the stock market decline were due to S&P, interest rates would be heading up. Instead they are down. #dumbreporting # Hey, were more gays allowed to marry recently? My marriage has felt a little shaky and I was wondering if that perhaps was the cause. # Continue reading

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07

@AlexU_A "Proof" in the vernacular means "evidence," which you can't avoid by waxing epistemological. # @price_laborecon We're arguing about slutwalk. Sorry you don't have a pony. # John Stuart Mill called conservatives the "stupid party." It's still true. http://t.co/cffhsrQ # @AlexU_A The proof you are wrong is that rates of sexual violence vary enormously from one place and time to another. # @AlexU_A "It's natural" is the refuge of reactionaries. It's what justified conquest, rape, unregulated markets. # @AlexU_A And third, that SOME men are predators of women is not a natural but social / cultural thing. We can change it. # @AlexU_A And second, should the whole world should be like a ghetto for women? Because if you are right, it doesn't matter how they dress. # @AlexU_A First of all, middle class white kids do march through black neighborhoods with $ buying drugs. # Rick Perry got Cs… Continue reading