March, 2012 archive
“Facebook Frolics, Meet An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Social networking, the polite way:
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with threatening on Facebook to shoot a student at Virginia Beach Middle School, according to the commonwealth’s attorney’s office. A search of his home turned up no weapons.
According to a search warrant filed in Circuit Court, another student saw the Facebook post March 9 and told a parent, who told the principal, who told the police officer assigned to the school.
The Roots of Ignorance 0
The Commander Guy muses on the Republican War on Knowledge. A nugget:
Read the rest.
Another One Bites the Dust 0
Yesterday’s bank failure:
The trickle of failure is the actual trickle of trickle-down trickery.
Lightest Bloggery 0
Things to do.
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0
They have their own political party.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Spin Later 0
Forgetting that an estimate is an estimate . . .
BP has identified 10,000 documents, out of more than 80,000 the government has sought to suppress, that relate to estimates of the April 2010 spill, the London-based oil producer said in a court filing yesterday in federal court in New Orleans. The U.S. estimated in August 2010 that 4.9 million barrels of oil, plus or minus 10 percent, spilled into the Gulf after a rig exploded.
Meanwhile, the view from Gulfport differs from the view from New York, London, and wherever the hell in Switzerland Buccaneer Petroleum calls home these days:
Locals say this is far from normal. Laurel’s pictures can be hard to believe; photos of large bottlenose dolphins, their mouths agape and their silvery bodies stretched out like aluminum mannequins on the tar ball-littered sand as children frolic nearby in the warm waters of the Gulf. She’s taken shots of rotten, decaying endangered sea turtles wasting away on the shores, sprayed with orange paint by marine mammal experts for disposal by beach cleanup crews who sometimes take days to respond.
A Newt Is a Small Lizard 0
Daniel Ruth considers Newt the Gingrinch’s campaign:
When you stare into a mirror and see St. Thomas Aquinas, Winston Churchill and Mount Rushmore staring back, it’s not easy to accept that the body politic has rejected you.
So Newt Gingrich, the Norma Desmond of the stump, continues to annoy people. He knows the moment he officially ends the campaign his moment in the limelight, no matter how dim and flickering, is over for good.
Nutshells 0
In one short paragraph, the Booman cuts to the quick:
The Sanford, Florida, authorities seemed to want the answer to that question to be, “Yes.”
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still improving slowly:
(snip)
The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figures, fell to 365,000 last week from 368,500.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 41,000 in the week ended March 17 to 3.34 million.
QOTD 0
Susan Ertz, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Stray Thought, Armaments Dept. 0
All the spin the world can’t turn a bag of Skittles into a Glock.
Facebook Frolics 0
This seems rather silly:
It’s a very American story. The parents have appealed to the courts . . . .
QOTD 0
Albert Einstein, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
