2014 archive
National College Exploitation Association 0
Bob Molinaro cuts to the quick:
More quick cuts at the link. (His Saturday columns always delight.)
Exploratory 0
Dan Simpson searches for America’s heart. Read it.
Great Moments in Rationalization 0
Twas ever thus: Plutocrats skillfully convince themselves that flaunting ostentatious greed is a sign of their benevolence.
“. . . Nor Any Drop To Drink” 0
Industry is poisoning, well, just about everyone and everything.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey tracked the toxins called neonicotinoids in six states and nine Midwestern rivers, including the portion of the Mississippi that drains southern Minnesota, and found that they were universally present throughout the growing season in every watershed tested.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Parent politely.
His daughter was shot in the arm and taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She was treated and released.
Droning On 0
What happens when remote-controlled robotic death rains from the skies?
Droning On 0
Innocent out-of-town yahoo plays with his new toy, gets remonstrated with.
Seattle police continue to frown upon people using private drones for their own kicks.
Space Needle security called police just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after guests reported seeing a small drone buzz the top of the tower, according to police reports.
Witnesses claimed they saw the white drone, equipped with a camera, fly back to a hotel two blocks east of the Space Needle and land inside a fifth-floor unit.
I sympathize with the cops.
“Alien Invasion” 0
The Bangor Daily News’s Chris Busby worries about the little green men . . . .
“Oh, my God,” I thought. “The federal government” — long suspected of hiding evidence of extra-terrestrial contact on secret bases in the Nevada desert — “has shipped the spawn of space creatures into our state without alerting the local authorities!”
(snip)
Well, as you can imagine, I was plenty embarrassed when I read the article more closely and realized the “aliens” LePage was warning us about are actually poor little kids from Central America, not gator-faced gremlins from Alpha Centauri.
Read the rest.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
- I shot a bullet into the air.
It came to earth I know not where.
All who hear this must now ken
I am the politest of all the men.
“The reality is that the trajectory of that bullet, we can show, came from quite a distance away because one shot was in a higher portion of the window, when it exited, it came at a lower portion of the window,” said Sgt. Jeff Edwards.
Edwards said the bullet could have been fired from as far as two miles away – likely from a rifle.
The stupid, it burns.
Hey! Rubio! Victimology Dept. 0
Shorter Marco Rubio:
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If you don’t tolerate my intolerance, you’re intolerant.