August, 2009 archive
Drinking Liberally and an Update 0
Tomorrow, Triumph Brewing Company, 2nd and Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pa., USA, 6 p.
I may actually be there for the first time in a month, though my days in this part of the world are numbered.
I just don’t know what the number is.
All seriousness aside, Pine View Farm World Headquarters will be relocating in the fall. Details will follow.
“We Distort; You Deride” 0
Related to my post yesterday, I also believe the Obama administration was unprepared for all the lies.
Though, Lord knows, the last eight years should have tipped them off.
Follow the link for videos and transcripts.
Via Atrios.
Hope for the SS United States 0
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From today’s Philadephia Shrinquirer:
That hasn’t stopped a boatload of romantics from sending out a major SOS. An advocacy group called the SS United States Conservancy believes the ship, which arrived here by happenstance in 1996, carries too much history to be discarded so casually. So it’s mounting a campaign to save the vessel, starting Wednesday with a free screening of a documentary at the Independence Seaport Museum.
Southern Horrorscope 2
I was doing some disk maintenance yesterday (that’s computerese for deleting old stuff) and found this. According to the file properties, it’s been lying around on various computers in my place for over six years. I have no idea from whence it came. It has no point, but, then, neither does this post.
And, yes, I have made lunch off an R. C. Cola and Moon Pie. It’s a pretty lousy lunch. I’d rather have a Coke and a Hostess lemon pie (unless I can get a TastyKake. Once you TastyKake, you’ll never want to Hostess again).
OKRA (Dec 22 – Jan 20)
Are tough on the outside but tender on the inside. Okras have tremendous influence. An older Okra can look back over his life and see the seeds of his influence everywhere. You can do something good each day if you try.
Fooling All of the People All of the Time 0
Securitization returns to the Street. And people are still willing to buy this stuff.
A Short Experiment in Animal Psychology 0
1. Cat rubs against legs.
2. Feed cat (narrowly escaping death as cat tries to trip me three times between cat food storage device and cat food consumption device dish).
3. Cat no longer rubs against legs.
Quality Construction at a Price That’s Right 0
Bolt downright:
The wrong bolts. According to the story, they could “(prevent) sailors from being able to move weapons within the torpedo room.”
Unassisted Triple Play 0
It’s happened only 15 times in the history of major league baseball. In contrast, there have been 18 perfect games pitched.
Story and video here.
Video (I found one last night and MLB had it pulled down:
Plus, the good guys won.
Afterthought: The stars have to aligned just right for a player to have a chance for one of these.
Video via Glomarization.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
’nuff said:
People like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and the eternally puzzling Glenn Beck pile up tens of millions of dollars by flouting those rules every day.
Teaching children tolerance in modern America is like trying to teach an inner city kid he shouldn’t aspire to be a pimp: If the only successes he’s ever seen are people doing the opposite of what Mom and Dad preach, who’s he going to believe?
Here come the e-mails: “Why single out conservatives? Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are just as bad.”
Fair enough — but there’s still a difference: Taken as a whole, the conservative screamers are either lying or shockingly, incomprehensibly wrong. As a result, their lockstep followers are making decisions based on beliefs that don’t pass the laugh test.
Obama’s “Trust” Problem in a Nutshell 0
There is much gnashing of teeth in Left Blogistan and Left Journalististan because President Obama has been unable to wave a magic wand and get our elected officials incongruously assembled to do his (and their) bidding. Persons are starting to fulminate about a “trust” problem.
Anyone who paid attention during the campaign would know that Mr. Obama is not a doctrinaire (in Republican terms, “wild-eyed”) liberal. He did not campaign as one and has neither portrayed himself as one nor voted as one.
But he does have a “trust” problem.
He trusted that the Republicans would deal in good faith and with truth.
They don’t.
Stray Thought 0
Does hurricane Bill mean no hurricane Guillaume?
Aside: The weather system that Bill caused to stall over Delaware dropped 1 1/2″ of rain on my backyard. YMMV.
Advanced Placement 0
He’ll probably do a better job than most members of bank boards of directors:
Six-year-old Sam Pointon from Leicester wrote to the museum and applied to replace retiring director Andrew Scott.
Growth Industry 2
The Guardian reviews the history (herstory?) of Rigby & Peller, a British fashion institution. A nugget:
Our Stupid Public Discourse 0
Elizabeth Wellington pretty much sums it up.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twitter fails to trademark “tweet.”
