2021 archive
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Maya Cohen explains how only a few are permitted to wield the free hand of the market.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Dance with politeness.
An 18-year-old woman was killed in a Columbus shooting Wednesday night, the coroner said.
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According to police testimony in Recorder’s Court Thursday, Farral and two friends were dancing around with a loaded handgun before Farral decided he would use it to “scare” Holtrop, who had fallen asleep on a couch. Farral pulled the trigger by accident, detectives said.
Yes, It Gets My Goat Too 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Shorter Steve M.: No surprises here.
A Matter of Trust 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times has trust issues.
Hacks at the NSA 0
No doubt you heard the December headlines about a massive cyberbreach of the U. S. government. An article in the Sunday New York Times (yeah, it takes me all week to work my way through it) explores the failure of the United States shore up its cyberdefenses, despite being a target rich environment. Here’s a tiny little bit; follow the link for the rest.
At the N.S.A., whose dual mission is gathering intelligence around the world and defending American secrets, offense eclipsed defense long ago. For every hundred cyberwarriors working offense — searching and stockpiling holes in technology to exploit for espionage or battlefield preparations — there was often only one lonely analyst playing defense to close them shut.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Afterthought:
Yeah. I didn’t know she was once a brownette either.
Unity, Republican Style 0
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing which would replace the American dream with an American nightmare.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
All the News that Fits, Return of Beyond the Palin Dept. 0
David comments on Piers Morgan’s recent interview with Sarah Palin, who seems firmly entrenched in the Fox News bubble.