January, 2015 archive
Just for the Fund of It 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Brand Loco 0
No word on whether the pipe was properly inflated.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More parental politeness.
The mother told police approximately 10 minutes later she heard a single gunshot. The boy’s father awoke to find his son injured from a gunshot wound to the head.
Having more guns lying about will, no doubt, eliminate such events in the future. At least, so says the NRA.
The Regent in Suspense 0
I’ve been wondering whether something like this would happen.
The bar’s Disciplinary Board decided the suspension as a result of McDonnell’s conviction on 11 federal corruption charges, according to a public notice. His license was already administratively suspended because McDonnell hasn’t paid his dues since mid-October 2014, it said.
Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em 0
Sean Mullen peers though the smoke and sees some good news.
Lucas Light and Tragic 0
Contrary to what you might think, there are only three Star Wars movies. Any others are counterfeit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Parent politeness is paramount.
Kaleb then lifted the gun, turned it so that it faced his chest and squeezed the trigger.
This is gun nut paradise writ large.
“Shoot First, Ask Question Later” 0
I can’t help wondering whether the secret sauce in gunnuttery is the wish to kill someone, anyone, just to see what it feels like.
Light Bloggery 0
Family matters.
Still Flipping after All These Years 0
Mitt the Flip hasn’t changed his spots (but you can be certain that, if he could, he would).
The Golden Fleecing 0
In search of the elusive one who’s born every minute.
As stated in his filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Biscardi hopes that selling stock in Bigfoot Project Investments will raise $3 million, the Journal reported.
“Strange Fruit” 0
My local rag’s David Hall writes of the funeral of Carl Long, a man of many firsts (“he helped break the color barrier in the Carolina League in 1956 . . . .became Kinston’s first black Trailways bus driver, its first black deputy and its first black detective”). The column is worth a read, but this bit leapt out at me.
One more time: When next you hear someone romanticizing “the Lost Cause,” ask him or her to specify out loud for all to hear just precisely what cause was lost.
Haters Gotta Hate . . . 0
. . . and this one demands that the government require that others hate right along with him.
The reasoning is as twisted (“If you don’t hate along with me, you are discriminating against me”) as the chutzpah is impressive.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Down a bit.
(snip)
The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, climbed to 306,500 last week, the highest since mid July, from 300,000.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits increased by 15,000 to 2.44 million in the week ended Jan. 10. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.8 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
The number of filings was higher than Bloomberg’s “experts” predicted. Bloomberg implies that this is somehow a commentary on the unemployment figures, when it is actually a commentary on their “experts.”
