2013 archive
They Learn Fast 0
Ernest Hooper reports from the family front:
But he said to get his attention, I should simply not transfer money into his account and he would contact me. Immediately.
Storage Wars 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
“Looking for a Mystery” 0
As my two or three regular readers, as well as my occasional listeners at HPR, know, I am a mystery buff.
I recently stumbled over a great site about mystery stories. If you are also a mystery buff, you must visit “Looking for a Mystery.”
I was led there by ManyBooks.net, a most excellent site for free ebooks.
I discovered it looking for mystery ebooks to read on my Zareason tablet, which does indeed absolutely rock. If you are interested in a tablet, but don’t want to sell your soul to Apple or your cellphone company, check out the ZaTab. It’s Android, so you still sell part of your soul to Google, but you can keep the rest.
Light Bloggery 0
(Christmas) Decoration Day.
The Entitlement Society 0
Plutocrats want your social security because, in their world, too much is never enough for them and too little is too much for you.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
Hmmmm.
Wonder whether, had outcome had been reversed, the brother have been charged?
Macho Macho Men 0
John Affleck searches for something worthwhile in the year in sports and concludes that that, with luck, it might be the realization that “words matter.”
He cites several cases of coaches and players getting into trouble over how they treat others, even though abusive behavior has long been considered routine in sports world. A nugget:
Consider this: You’re at your workplace and the boss comes in completely unhinged — frothing, cursing, pounding the desk and disparaging your sexual orientation or gender or race. Is that little tirade going to make you more or less loyal to him or her? Is it going to help you succeed? Is it any more OK if your workplace is a baseball diamond than if it is a discount department store?
Flaming the Fans 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Matt Beardmore tries to understand why sports fans get violent. A nugget:
“Fan violence is really an adult form of bullying,” said Kathy Samoun, who was so moved by the Stow incident – and many others involving fan violence – that she founded the Bay Area-based Fans Against Violence non-profit organization, which “encourages fan safety at professional sporting events through education, discussion and partnerships with like-minded organizations.”
“Uncontroversial Facts” 0
Noam Chomsky takes down 9/11 Truthers.
Even if you don’t like Noam Chomsky because you think he’s much too radical (he’s not, by the way, as history has proved), watch this. It’s a master wielding a scalpel in public discourse.
Via TPM.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness continues to abound.
Sheriff Brian Hieatt said Jackson got out of his vehicle and confronted Sharp, punching him, and Sharp responded by severely cutting Jackson on the arm with a knife and pulling out a rifle. The rifle was not loaded.
Have you noticed that this stuff almost never happens at a Target store?