October, 2013 archive
Have Cake, Eat It Too Reprise 0
John Aravosis:
(snip)
What’s worse is that the ranchers don’t sound like they’ve changed their minds about the shutdown.
Rather, they think that their welfare checks from the government are the only good the government actually does.
Because they’re special.
The Default Position 0
Chauncey Devega tries to understand the Republican Party’s threat to shoot the economy. A nugget:
“It is true because we believe it to be so” is a logic that has brought down many societies and governments. Unfortunately, such a slogan is also the motto of the contemporary Tea Party GOP.
Read the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
At Tampabay dot com, Dan DeWitt tells two tales of politeness, while questioning this statement from law enforcement:
There is “NO suspect at large and NO threat to the community,” it said in a statement.
That’s because there were NO survivors.
Special QOTD, Galt and the Lamers Dept. 0
Watson: . . . and a book by Ayn Rand.
Holmes: Ah! The philosopher for the intellectually bankrupt.
Both Sides Not 0
Thom and Tommy Christopher explore the weird world of “both sides do it” and find that there’s no biz like show biz.
Today’s Big Nothing 6
The headline writers today are clutching their pearls at this:
These people suffer a severe shortage of clues. They have no idea how the internet or networks work.
Email addresses and most emails travel across the net in the clear.
When an application for tracking and mapping your bicycle rides* wants access to the contact list on your phone, persons willingly run through Facebook in their digital birthday suits, phishing@hooklineandsinker.ru has been emailing everybody for years, and persons (like me) make email addresses public on blogs and websites, I just cannot get worked up over this. It is much ado about not much of anything.
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*Map My Ride (no link–find it yourself). And that’s why I didn’t install it. I use Move! Bike Computer.
Scam Alert 0
A new scheme appears to be moving in just as many folks prepare to move out.
“Consumers are being scammed $10, $15, maybe $30 for changing their address online,” says Paul Krenn, US Postal Inspector.
The Post Office offers the service for free in person or a dollar online.
Drear 0
Today is the eighth straight day of unrelenting clouds, rain, and drizzle.
The clouds parted yesterday evening, but it was merely a cruel joke to get our hopes up. They unparted during the night.
I can’t recall a stretch of such unrelenting dreary weather.
College Admissions 0
Reform is clearly needed.
The Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg (http://bit.ly/17mkggs ) reports the student was using a lighter to pop a dent out of the ball Friday afternoon when he dropped it.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Warning: Mild Language.
Burglars in the Breakroom 0
He wants the culprit to get his more-than-just desserts.
Light Bloggery 0
Time off.
Im-pounded 0
If you wish to move pets or animals from one country to another, strict quarantine rules apply to prevent the spread of disease.
In one of the odder side-effects of the Republican refusal to govern in good faith, AKA the “shutdown,” here’s a family pet stuck in Republican limbo.
The Secesh (Updated) 0
If you doubt the accuracy of this, follow this link.
Image via Bartcop.
Addendum, Later That Day:
Dick Polman comments on yesterday’s teabaggery in front of the White House. A nugget:
