2008 archive
Now I Know What That New Building Is 1
The one at Marsh and Silverside.
It’s a TD Bank.
I don’t think I’ll ever see the inside, though.
Not after reading this.
“Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?” 0
You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, All of the People Some of the Time . . . 0
. . . but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
We’re starting to get a handle on who the “some of the people all of the time” crew is.
Shamelessly Stolen(tm) from Atrios.
Bushonomics 0
I ran out to the local liquor store today.
The owner got talkative. He told me that, for the first time in the 17 years he’s owned the store, he is having to roll and deposit loose change in his daily bank deposits.
All the time in the past, he’s had to withdraw change so his cash drawer would be ready for business the next day.
People are buying their sixpacks with loose change. Which means they probably shouldn’t be buying the sixpacks.
It also means they really, really need that drink.
Typealyzer Massive Fail 0
I don’t know who this is, but it’s not me:
The analysis indicates that the author of http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog is of the type:
ESTP – The Doers
The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.
And I have the MBPTI to prove it. I’m an INSJ.
Via Andrew Sullivan.
Kristol Good Night 0
John Cole:
I think Otto from Airplane has a bone to pick with Mr. Cole.
Otto is nowhere near the airhead that Bill Kristol is.
Bad Pennies 2
Newt is back.
A newt, of course, is a lizard that lives under rocks except when it comes out to dine on unsuspecting insects.
Newt is best known for letting the contract on America and for exemplifying the high standard of Republican Family Values by dumping his cancer-stricken first wife for another woman and by being a serial cheater.
One thought: Proverbs 26:11.
Plough and Stars 0
The major topic of conversation when we broke up at DL tonight was “what other venues can we try?”
Maybe it was just the waitress who had our area.
But Plough and Stars massive fail.
I set myself a two-drink limit (after all, it is Drinking Liberally); I never got the second one, not 45 minutes after ordering it.
I was there two weeks ago, on election night, when it was packed.
It was not packed tonight.
The service was nowhere near as bad then as it was tonight.
Two different worlds . . . .
Rox, what were you thinking?
Snow Showers 0
70 Fahrenheits on Saturday. 30 Fahrenheits with gusting cutting winds and snow showers today. Even the Yankee I was with was complaining.
My body’s in shock.
Why anyone would willingly choose to live north of the Mason-Dixon Line (which runs just north of here) is beyond me.
I am not a winter person.
Bushonomics 0
Bonddad is such a little optimist.
Lieberman -/->Leaverman 0
I don’t like it, but, in the long run, we’re all dead it doesn’t really matter.
Mithras talks some sense.
Fables of the Reconstruction, Reader’s Digest Abridged Version 0
Obama ran as a unifier. Now people are surprised that he’s acting like one.
Shorter John Kyl 0
Millions for Millikens. Not one cent for millworkers.
I Hate Plumbing 4
Chris, how quickly can you get here?