May, 2013 archive
Twits on Twitter 0
They flock together.
“SMiShing” 0
Phishing comes to cell phones.
Sorrell’s office is reminding consumers to be wary of text messages and calls they did not initiate. And consumers should never give out personal information to an unverified source.
All the computer security in the world can’t overcome stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your pre-school.
Hallowell Police Chief Eric Nason said a staff member found the loaded .380 caliber, semi-automatic handgun in a bag brought to Rollins Family Child Care Center on Litchfield Road. Nason said the gun’s safety was on but a round was in the chamber.
Shenanigans 0
Called here.
A Tale of Two Depressions 2
Donald Kaul points out, one more time, that the past is not even past, in a particularly depressing context:
Conservative leaders, then as now, were absolutely clueless as to what regular people were going through. There’s a reason they call what we’ve just experienced the “Great Recession” and the 1930s economy the “Great Depression.” The Depression was much more devastating, with 13-15 million people unemployed, leaving as many as 34 million men, women, and children with no income at all.
Their safety net was often a garbage heap in which they foraged for food, or worse, begged for it. Yet President Herbert Hoover actually said: “Nobody is actually starving. The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been.”
And when it was suggested that the Du Pont family’s corporation sponsor a Sunday afternoon program during the Depression, a member of the clan rejected the idea on grounds that “at three o’clock on Sunday afternoons, everybody is playing polo.”
Does that sound like Mitt Romney talking to his country club friends or what?
Read the rest.
Hey! Rube-io! 1
Marco Rubio wants the Commissioner of the IRS to resign.
There is one slight problem.
There isn’t one.
TSA Security Theatre 0
This is just stupid.
Many Sappy Returns 0
I haven’t said anything about the IRS “scandal” because I don’t understand it.
Let Lawrence O’Donnell explain it to both of us.
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As I suspected, there seems to be rather an absence of there, there.
Via The Richmonder.
Get Your Politeness on Line 0
It’s sort of like mail order gun nut viagra:
A local gun shop markets on-line training courses which residents in states with reciprocity agreements with Virginia can use to meet safety training requirements.
It makes as much sense as getting a driver’s license after learning to drive in Second Life.
Much more at the link.
Both Sides Not 0
Zandar searches for symmetry.
Penguins in Space 0
The Past Is Not Past, It’s Sanfordized 0
You remember, of course, that, for something to be Sanfordized, it must be taken to the cleaners.
Benghazi Bugaloo 0
Afterthought:
I think the speculation about Hilary Clinton’s running in the next presidential election is Firebagger wishful thinking combined with Republican paranoia and a dash of news media desperation.
She’ll be 69 years old in 2016. That doesn’t mean she couldn’t do it either mentally or physically, but I think it’s unlikely that she’ll want to.
Just my two cents.