Tom’s Big Picture

He sounds familiar, but can’t quite place him…

One of the reasons talking about this sort of thing is sometimes considered declasse’ is that these poor people have no sense of self-consciousness.  It’s more sad than funny at times…

The feminists will have a field day with this one on so many levels.  Click here to read the story.

Apparently quite literally- post-modern post-Christian man seeks meaning in a secular apocalypse, and finds himself drawn to traditional religous archetypes, almost magically.  Yet more proof that an irrational need for meaning is at the root of this movement- something religion used to provide in much healthier ways.

Rick Perry takes his ball and bat and goes home on the HPV vaccine controversy.  The Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill rescinding Perry’s order, but instead of being a man about it and vetoing it based on his principles, he surrounds himself with cancer patients and even a tear-jerking video of a dying woman- he maintains he was right to force the HPV vaccine upon girls and taxpayers at the point of a gun.  Of course, seeing political reality, he’s going to let his executive order die.

When are we Texas Republicans going to stop electing mule-headed idiots as our governor?  2/2 is pretty bad.

Man is injured on road, 40 people pass by and no offers to help.  Where’s a Samaritan when you need one?

The economic value of stay-at-home moms.  One of the problems of feminism and libertarianism is its inability to see the value of the “shadow economy” of households that involves no monetary transactions- as usual, feminism cheats women.  By my calculations, out of over $100,000 a year on average after taxes and expenses.