April, 2015 archive
The Snaring Economy 0
Seems Uber may be the ride for the discriminating.
In a decision late Friday night, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Jose, California, said the plaintiffs could pursue a claim that Uber was a “travel service” subject to potential liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The judge also rejected Uber’s arguments that the plaintiffs, including the National Federation of the Blind of California, lacked standing to sue under the ADA and state laws protecting the disabled.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate politeness to your potential progeny.
The 26-year-old was enjoying a stroll with his girlfriend on Beverly Boulevard and Robinson Street in Silver Lake at around 12:45 a.m. when he heard a pop, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman said.
This is a new twist in ammosexuality. After all, he could have just gotten one of those vibrator thingees.
Via Southern Beale.
Football uber Alles 0
In the Sacramento Bee, Andy Furillo argues that UC-Davis needs to forego its “inviolate principles” of athletic competition, at least as regards to Big-Time Football. As near as I can make out his argument, it’s this:
Code Words 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., ponders how Wayne LaPierre so creatively turned the polysyllabic latinate phrase, “demographically significant,” into a slur. A snippet:
One side effect of Barack Obama’s presidency is this: The right no longer even tries to hide its racist, bigoted roots. Indeed, it now flaunts them.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
They say the bullets have hit their homes and landed in their backyards and believe they’re coming from a nearby gun club.
According to the story, this has been going on for several years. Law enforcement says he link to the gun club has not been conclusively established. It could be polite hunters “milling around” (to quote the story).
Then it starts to get weird.
DWB 0
Officers use these minor violations as an excuse to stop, question and search almost anyone on wheels. The department doesn’t just condone these stops, it encourages them, pushing officers who patrol high-crime neighborhoods to do as many as possible.
There was the 56-year-old man who rode his bike through a stop sign while pulling a lawnmower. Police handcuffed him while verifying he had, indeed, borrowed the mower from a friend.
There was the 54-year-old man whose bike was confiscated because he couldn’t produce a receipt to prove it was his.
There’s more.
Hell, I bought my bike eight or nine years ago with cash from a small non-profit that restores bikes for poor kids. I don’t have any idea where the receipt is, if indeed there was a receipt.
The cops are trying to defend this as a war against crime, as if bicycle violations are some sort of “gateway crime.”
Yeah. Right.
CSI: Real Life 0
This surprises you how?
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
In related news, don’t believe the “cyber” in CSI: Cyber>. It’s so absurd that you can’t debunk it, because there’s just too damned much bunk. It makes em>Godzilla look like a true-to-life nature documentary.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Polite at any speed:
Nazario hit his brakes, then swerved to the left and collided with Santiago’s vehicle after he had turned in order to avoid a collision, police said.
Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .
“Doing the Time Warp Again” 0
George Diaz thinks that Mario Rubio is living in the past.
But here’s the hiccup: He is a modern-day John Kennedy, stuck in archaic, Joe McCarthy politics.
Fear the commies. Fear the homos. Quash civil rights.
He proceeds to rip Rubio apart for his flip-flopping hypocrisy on immigration.
I would disagree with the comparison to John Kennedy; whatever his faults, Kennedy had some integrity.
Richard Nixon might be a better analogy: all the grift all the time.
Competition 0
A most unfortunately named game.
