2015 archive
“In the Navy, You Can Sail the Seven Seas” 0
I think it’s damned shame that Ashley Madison got cracked, because cracking is bad. It is bad in and of itself.
I also know temptation, but I can attest that I never signed up for temptation–I waited for it to come to me.
I am struggling with a conflict between principle and schadenfreude, and I fear that, at least on an emotional level, schadenfreude is winning.
Geeking Out 2
FreeBSD v. 10 running in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current.
The New Confederate Party 0
The “conservative”–er–“movement” strips off its disguise.
George Fitzhugh would be so proud.
Afterthought:
No doubt hasty attempts will be made to replace the mask and pretend that there’s nothing to see here move along now.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
For all practical purposes, status quo ante.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week remained historically low.
Jobless claims increased by 4,000 to 277,000 in the week ended Aug. 15, a Labor Department report showed Thursday in Washington. The median forecast of 48 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected 271,000. Applications have been lower than 300,000, a level typically associated with an improving job market, since early March.
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The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, climbed to 271,500 from 266,000 the week before, the lowest in more than 40 years. . . .
Estimates from 48 economists in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 264,000 to 285,000. The prior week’s claims were revised to 273,000 from an initial reading of 274,000.
Follow the link to see Bloomberg’s fear-mongering headline. It’s a hoot.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Unreconstructed rebels resort to the I know I am, but what are you? defense.
Sharing a Cell (Phone) 0
Afterthought:
No matter how many times they change their name, they are still and forever Southwestern Bell, renowned for their execrable customer service.
Rick Scott, Responsible Fiscal 0
Florida’s Governor Scoffaw picks the public purse.
No other sitting governor has used tax money to end public records cases that were caused by his own secretive misbehavior. Scott couldn’t care less.
He paid off in one case to avoid producing thousands of emails from private Google accounts on which he and staff members conducted public business, against the law. Scott said such accounts didn’t exist, which was a flat-out lie.
It’s not like this should surprise anyone.
Facebook Frolics 0
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
I think Henry Mancini* wrote a song about just these sorts of antics:
When we played our crusade,
We were like children posing . . . .
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*I apologize to the memory of Mancini, who was a marvelous composer whose music I cherish, but, really, I couldn’t resist.