Unintended Consequences
By Michael Bryan On Friday night you decide to drive to the grocery store to get some arugula for your dinner salad. Your spouse was supposed to buy some at AJ’s while shopping yesterday, but it got left off the list and the damn salad just doesn’t work without a bitter green base. So you … Read more
Quick Thought of the Day
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Governor Jan Brewer has approved $250,000 in state funds for a marketing campaign to help Arizona combat its negative image. It is Governor Jan Brewer and the GOP-controlled legislature which has become a staple of Comedy Central and late night TV comedy over the past two years. If you want to improve … Read more
What the poll numbers really tell us
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Just before the Fourth of July holiday, GOP narrative pollster Rasmussen Reports issued a press release citing 23% in AZ poll favor tea party. That 23 percent figure for tea party identification in Arizona is about the highest of anywhere in the country. The national average is about 16 percent. This was … Read more
SB1070 Update: Our self-proclaimed “truth teller” Guv is right about one thing
by David Safier When the Accidental Guv was in Sierra Vista on July 4, she demonstrated that just seeing her lips move isn't a guarantee she's lying. She said, correctly, some people are "getting misinformation" about SB1070. The problem is, she's Arizona's Old Faithful of fibbing, one of the prime sources of immigration misinformation, but … Read more
SB1070 Update: Guv badmouthing AZ bad for business? Who coulda guessed?
by David Safier I'm once again playing catch-up on posting, this time about a Howard Fischer article from July 1. I guess if you say Arizona is the kidnapping/drug/decapitation capital of the universe, it makes people a little wary about coming here. And who is doing all the badmouthing about our fair state? Not the … Read more
Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The New York Times reports Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies: [A]n examination of the American tax code indicates that oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process. According to the most recent study by the Congressional … Read more
Michael Mann exonerated; will the media issue a retraction and apology? (of course not)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It is a truism of modern media that no one reads the corrections to articles. It is even rarer that the media publishes a retraction and an apology for having hyped a story that it later discovers to have gotten completely wrong. "Eh, it's old news, who cares?" Such is the case with Dr. Michael … Read more
