May, 2011 archive
Clown Shoes 0
Oh, yes, please.
“In my mind, I have already decided,” Trump, 64, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “I am going to announce. But I can’t do anything until the show ends.”
QOTD 0
The Duke of Wellington, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
The President’s Announcement 0
“We will be relentless in the defense of our citizens . . . .”
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I give President George W. Bush credit for a gracious statement.
On Royal Weddings 0
Mr. Feastingonroadkill pretty much sums it up.
Food Flight 0
From El Reg:
(snip)
The store’s owner, Glenn Miller, told the Waikato Times that 24 people stocked up during the unscheduled opening hours.
Half of those used the self-scanning kit to pay for their goods. The other dirty dozen took advantage of the assistant-less zombie store to help themselves, with the police arriving after receiving a report of people making off with truckloads of groceries.
Afterthought:
The heartening bit is that half the folks paid for their purchase.
Also, Glenn Miller.
Trump Roasted 0
The good part starts about six minutes in (warning: 15 second commericial at beginning) (CNN clip replaced to get rid of the commercial.):
Via Zandar.
Conspiring Minds Want To Know 0
Mike Littwin of the Denver Post offers some theories about why conspiracy theories seem so popular amongst certain segments of the American populace. A nugget:
But what is true is that we understood exactly what the announcer meant. It was the ’50s and dissent was frowned upon. But even if you were a skeptic, you knew what the stakes were.
Now, there’s truth and there’s truth. This is, on balance, a good thing. We have more ways to get at the truth — and therefore more ways to understand it. But it’s not all good. If we doubt all our institutions — and the polls say we do — what do we share? If there’s a democratization of truth, it has to mean more than reading one article on climate science and thinking you’re qualified to deconstruct the work of a scientist who’s spent his entire life studying it.