November, 2014 archive
Sucklers at the Public Teat 0
Walmart.
Rand Gestures 0
One more time, a Libertarian is a Republican who’s ashamed to admit it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness promotes domestic tranquility.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get an unload of this politeness.
The state Game Commission says the bullet passed through a 14-year-old girl’s left knee and entered the abdomen of a 15-year-old boy Tuesday night in a wooded area behind Tamaqua Area High School.
Network Security Theatre 0
Notice that it’s “opt out,” rather than “opt in.” The hope, natch, is that you won’t notice it at all.
Twitter Inc. said Wednesday that users will receive a notification when the setting is turned on and can opt out using settings on their phones. On iPhones, this setting is called “limit ad tracking.” On Android phones, it’s “opt out of interest-based ads.”
And people worry about the NSA.
(More details at the link.)
Civil Discourse 0
Raw Story has tips about how to deal with what Driftglass calls “your Crazy Uncle Liberty” when Uncle Liberty insists on peddling Fox News talking points at holiday dinners.
Reclaim Thanksgiving 0
Don’t go shopping.
Context 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear points out that history matters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and a polite society is a clean society.
Stupid, but clean.
How Stuff Works 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explains the concept of “burden of proof” in black and white. A nugget:
Knowing that, who can be surprised at what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday night? Who can be surprised that a prosecutor who didn’t seem to want an indictment did not convince a grand jury to return one in the August shooting of Michael Brown?
Read it.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Back over 300k.
(snip)
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 17,000 to 2.32 million in the week ended Nov. 15, the fewest since December 2000.
In that same period, the unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits fell to 1.7 percent, the lowest since November 2000, from 1.8 percent the prior week, the report showed.
In other news, Bloomberg’s experts blew it again.
