Emerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth to profane ambitions:

Carl Paladino, Buffalo real estate developer and Republican candidate for New York State governor, wants to turn New York State prisons into housing for welfare recipients.

As new waves of flooding affect Pakistan today, we learned from the UN on Friday that between 15 and 20 million Pakistanis are in need of shelter, food and emergency care. Despite this dire situation, US charitable giving lags far behind the rate seen for the earthquake in Haiti. In response to lagging private donations, governments are doubling the original commitment to Pakistan through the UN.

Well, this is embarrassing for Team Obama: the resident right-wing bomb-thrower on The View, who campaigned alongside Sarah Palin in 2008, has said she supports something called “gay marriage” which I presume is what the rest of us call marriage equality. This puts her to the left of President Obama.

Another Sunday, another Sunday Talking Heads (STH in the biz).

OK, so which programs are

1. Definitely worth watching
2. Possibly interesting, but . . .
3. Don’t bother to watch this group of mostly clowns

Respond in comments.

Lost and Foundling starring Sniffles. This Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon was released on September 30, 1944.

Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seat back in front of ya, and no spitballs aimed at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

The Manhattan Mosque of Murderous Musselmen nonsensical bigotry has been so deeply stupidly bigotedly annoying in a bigoted stupid nonsensical way that it seems like it’s been going on for months now, which, in fact, it has. And NRO’s Andy McCarthy has been screeching about it all the way, though he’s impressively ramped up the [...]

Muckraking Swedish journalist who is a thorn in the side of the powerful, who in turn wish to see him destroyed, is accused of a crime designed to call into question both his journalism and his reputation.

I recently did an analysis comparing the results Washington state’s 2008 top two primary to the 2008 general election, and found a very high correlation between the primary results and the general election results. Extrapolating the 2010 primary results from last Tuesday (because of mail-in ballots the vote total is not final and will likely improve slightly for Murray), my analysis projects a close win for incumbent Patty Murray this November.

Many of us worried that the bridge plans for the uninsured before the changes from the Affordable Care Act that largely come into being in 2014 were underfunded and insufficient. In particular, states were to set up high-risk pools, bolstered with only $5 billion dollars in federal funds. It didn’t seem like this would help enough of the millions of people denied coverage by an insurer for a pre-existing condition. But the money doesn’t seem to be the main problem – it’s getting people to know that the pools exist.