2014 archive
“Liberty Ships” 0
My local rag points out that two remain afloat.
The idea was to build them faster than they could be sunk, though by the end of the war, only 229 of the 2,710 ships built had been lost, Porter said.
A little more than 441 feet long, about 57 feet wide, with a draft of roughly 28 feet, they could carry about 10,000 tons of cargo, enough to fill about 300 railroad cars.
Pictures at the link.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
I never watched the original, but I might watch this . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If it walks like a deer and quacks like a dee–oh, wait.
A hunter was shot and killed in Muskingum County on Monday, opening day of deer-gun season.
Adam Shinn, 26, of Adamsville, was accidentally shot by a member of his hunting party, said Ohio Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Bethany McCorkle. Shinn was hunting on his parents’ property at 5475 French Rd.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Know them by the company they keep.
BPD 0
Methinks ’tis an accurate diagnoses.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better.
(snip)
Employment probably increased by 230,000 in November after a 214,000 gain the previous month, according to the Bloomberg survey median ahead of the Labor Department’s Dec. 5 report. The unemployment rate is projected to hold at 5.8 percent, the lowest since July 2008.
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, rose to 299,000 from 294,250 the week before.
In the most stunning development, Bloomberg’s experts were, for all practical purposes, right on the money.
Brotherhood Hits the Roofie 3
Meanwhile, apologists for the fraternity systems are doing their best to impeach the original report (follow the link).
I was once a college student. Granted that that was a long, long time ago, the charges depicted in the original article were consistent with everything I knew and observed about fraternities at my school and, during a year of grad work, at Mr. Jefferson’s University. I doubt that much has changed since then. Men are still pigs, and most fraternities are still sties.
Animal House may have been a comedy, but in comedy there is truth. The US college fraternity system, like Crabby Appleton, is rotten to the core, as are its apologists and defenders.
Implicit 0
One of the aspects of privilege is that those who have it think it’s nothing special.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 2
The Rude One considers Mary Landrieu’s impending loss in Louisiana and points to the implicit racist elephant element in the room campaign. Read the rest (warning: rudeness).