January, 2011 archive
QOTD 0
Heinrich Heine, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
QOTD 0
Rudyard Kipling, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
Family Treed 0
Reverse mirror-image regression Oedipus complexities with a high “ick” facto one step removed from being his own grandpa amongst the Gore-Tex heirsr:
Susan Gore went through with the adoption so that each of her three natural children could reap tens of millions of dollars more from a family trust worth hundreds of millions. But she did it without informing her mother, Genevieve W. Gore, Wilbert’s widow and overseer of the trust, or other relatives outside Susan Gore’s immediate branch of the family.
It is a long and bizarre story that illustrates, among other things, the consequences of attempting to micromanage in our bequests events that may take place after we are gone.
Driving While Black . . . 0
. . . and having a diabetic low gets you tasered and beaten in Ohio.
My friend is diabetic. In fact, she had a low today as we were returning from a walk.
A low does not make someone aggressive; it makes him or her disoriented and weak and it impairs thought.
Indeed, behaving aggressively during a diabetic low is pretty much impossible.
Men with guns and tasers using their badges to shield abuse–all too possible.
Warming 0
A week later, most of the snow is gone and what is left is only a couple inches thick, down from a foot.
64 Fahrenheits on New Year’s Day. That is how you say “unseasonable.”
Some pics:
In the middle distance are some crows, but they skedaddled before I could get a good picture. Crows post a watcher at the highest point around; the watcher sounds the alarm if a threat appears. I know from experience that they can tell the difference between me with a rifle and me with a broomstick.
Geese on a pond very pretty walking round (apologies to String Band).
The one on the left was doing somersaults in the water.
Slipping Deadlines 0
I was looking back in this blog’s history for something I linked to a week ago and stumbled over this post referring to someone who believed that the rapture would take place September 21, 2009.
If it did, I missed it.
He’s trying again (I assume it’s a him based on the general ugliness of the website). Now he suspects that we will not make it to February this year.
Have to make another note in my giggle calendar.
Furrfu.
“Why Not Strip-Search Everyone?” 0
He got cited for disorderly conduct.
Meanwhile, allowing yourself to be fondled by uniformed strangers is orderly conduct.