March, 2012 archive
Endless War 0
When General Sherman said, “War is hell,” he didn’t intend it to be used as an excuse for hellish behavior; he meant is as a warning.
Drumbeats 0
Field hears the rhythm of endless war.
Update from the Foreclosure-Based Economy 0
Wall Street’s wizardy continues to weave its spell:
Last month marked the 15th consecutive month of year-over-year declines in median existing home prices.
Increases in the sales volume can be attributed in part to distressed sales, which have played a major role in Hampton Roads in the past year. Last month, foreclosures and sales by homeowners whose homes were worth less than their mortgage balances – known as short sales – accounted for 36 percent of all sales.
On Fences and Bloodlust 0
The drugs were-er–“misdirected” by a middleman.
The manufacturer wants its stolen drugs back. Nebraska is refusing to discuss to it.
I’m a confident that, if this involved a private person rather than a state government, we would hear no end of fulminating about cults of death and the like.
Details at the link.
Facebook Frolics, Ad Nauseum Dept. 0
Facebook is starting to push ads into its mobile applications (emphasis added):
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“Our vision is that interaction on Facebook with a brand is as exciting as it is with family,” Chris Cox, vice president of product at Facebook, said last month at the company’s FMC conference for marketers in New York.
Indeed.
Stray Thought 0
If you feel like you have continually to prove to others that God is on your side, He probably isn’t.
Facebook Frolics, Divorce Court Edition Reprise 0
The man’s estranged wife clicked on a link to his new partner’s Facebook page to see them with a wedding cake, court documents in Washington state say.
I always wonder, when I see a story like this: One woman’s enough trouble. Why two?
The Courage of Avoiding Conviction 0
Revealed truth is an elastic thing.
It so often reveals the financial and personal concerns of those who claim the revelation.
Robyn Blumner remembers a court case in which she was involved with the legal team:
I’m referring to a group of tort cases in which Catholic hospitals defended themselves against lawsuits from aggrieved parents of a dead fetus by claiming that an unborn child is not a person.
Penn Fake 2
Karen Heller talks to some of Little Ricky’s professors about Little Ricky’s claim that Penn State was a hotbed of liberalism:
“Maybe he believes it, but he doesn’t have a very good memory,” Friedman said. “He wasn’t very conservative.”
The real story about Rick Santorum’s education is this one: “He was telling a story that isn’t true,” Friedman said. “It’s a fantasy,” Eisenstein echoed. “You’re in a political campaign and you’re dealing with people you can get to applaud if you tell stories about people being indoctrinated and liberal professors, but it’s not true.”
When I lived in the Philly area, I knew a lot of Penn State grads. When any of them formed a sentence with politics in the subject, “bid to football bowl game” was in the predicate.
