May, 2013 archive
Implement Plan B 0
As I listen to this, it occurs to me that the folks who are against Plan B emergency contraception are de facto in favor of more pregnant teen-aged girls.
Sanfordized 0
Dick Polman’s introduction to his column on the success of the Man from the Appalachian Trail is delicious:
So’s the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A little child shall lead them.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Takers, not makers.
Stupid Grown-Up Tricks (Updated) 0
From the resident curmudgeon at my local rag.
I seldom agree with her, but this is one of the exceptions. It’s a case where her curmudgeonly talents are well employed.
For the crime of being boys.
On Friday, these two 7-year-olds pointed pencils at each other and made shooting noises. By doing so, they triggered Suffolk’s Code Hysteria and automatically were bounced from school for two days.
She comes perilously close to implying that this is somehow akin to a desire for rational gun regulations, but stops just short.
She reports that Suffolk officials were, as they say, unavailable for comment.
Suffolk is where peanuts come from (and far better than the peanuts from Georgia!). The peanuts seem to have cross-fertilized the brains of the school administration.
Read the rest.
Addendum:
Suffolk is “reconsidering” the policy.
Oddly, “reconsidering” implies that “considering” had previously occurred.
Headline of the Day 0
I can see it now: “Hello, let me introduce myself. I’m Superintendent of Mars.”
Spreading the Gunspell 0
Retired Marine and university professor Ed Palm has qualms.
Because Republican Jesus would have wanted it that way . . .
No Fact Shall Apply 0
A quote from James Inhofe, R–One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, encapsulates the Republican strategy of lies:
There’s no downside if I’m wrong on this.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Via Bob Cesca.
Meta: “Comments Are Closed” after Seven Days 0
Since I decreased the comment window for posts to seven days and closed all pages to comments (“Other Stuff” on the sidebar), the amount of comment spam that Akismet catches has decreased significantly, averaging under a dozen spam comments a day.
The amount of overhead in my MySQL database has dropped from three to four megabytes every few days to kilobytes, so much so that I’ve increased the interval between instances of database checks/repairs/optimizations/backups, which involve logging into my hosting provider and almost five minutes of clicking, from every couple of days to every three or four days.
When I get a round tuit, I want to change the comment link to inform visitors that comments are closed after seven days and that, if they have a comment on an older post, they should email me. This will involve mucking about in the CSS and in the theme files and a lot of testing on my test system (the logical place for testing), so it might be a while before I tackle it.
First, I have to record my next podcast for Hacker Public Radio, do a test recording for Librivox, and update my Debian box, which serves as my file and media server, to v. 7.0, Wheezy, which was released last weekend (Debian releases are named after characters from Toy Story), not necessarily in that order.
“Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go” 0
Again, no mention of those who are “furloughed” for the sequestrian dressage.
(snip)
The four-week moving average of claims, a less-volatile measure, dropped to 336,750, the lowest level since November 2007. The worst recession since the Great Depression began the following month and ended in June 2009.
The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits fell by 27,000 to 3.01 million in the week ended April 27. The continuing claims figure does not include the number of workers receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
QOTD 0
Making Political Sense 0
PoliticalProf explains. A snippet:
“Our son-of-a-bitch is better than their saint.”
If you remember that notion, and the concept of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), pretty much all of politics will make sense to you.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Glock-a-bye baby . . . .
News videos at the link.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
Warning: Mild language.
Light Bloggery 0
Spring cleaning.
Addendum:
Of course, the cat waited until I was done to throw up on the carpet.
Folex is wonderful.
You do know that all cats have the same first name. “What is it?” you may ask.
Throw Away the Key 0
Bill Press believes that America has abdicated its right to fulminate about “human rights.”
But, as true as they may be, American politicians can no longer make those charges. Because the worst human rights violator in Cuba today is not the Castro regime, it’s us. It’s the U.S. government at our prison at the United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay; first, under George W. Bush, and now, under Barack Obama.
Read the rest.
Remember that, when President Obama tried to close Gitmo, that old white men in Congress kept him from doing so.
As an old white man. I’m quite fed up with old white men.