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Snowflakes 0
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And this surprises you how?
The Environmental Protection Pollution Agency
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Robert Redford has penned a scathing indictment of Scott Pruitt’s malfeasance. A nugget:
He’s not protecting the environment. Pruitt has become a one-man public-health risk to the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. From day one, he has worked to gut the EPA and hamstring its ability to protect the environment and public health. He works on behalf of the fossil-fuel industry and other industrial polluters, not the American people. That’s the greatest scandal – and the reason, first and foremost, he’s got to go.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
After all, turkeys also walk on two legs . . . .
QOTD 0
Robert van Gulik:
And both nearing middle age, when passion burns with a more intense fire than in one’s youth.
van Gulik, Robert, The Phantom of the Temple (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995), p. 174
Swoosh! 0
That’s the sound of the broom sweeping sexist pigs out the door at Nike. A nugget:
As women — and men — continue to come forward with complaints, Nike has begun a comprehensive review of its human-resources operations, making management training mandatory and revising many of its internal reporting procedures.
Nowhere that I ever worked did I witness conduct like that described in the article.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Slip yourself a little politeness on the side . . . .
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
In the Charlotte Observer, James E. Ford cuts through the rationalizations crap about charter schools.
Lead Poisoning 0
A couple buys a home and discovers that automobile battery casings have been used in the fill for the property.*
Automobile batteries contain lead.
I really don’t have anything constructive or creative or clever to say about this, other than that it’s just too despicable for words.
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*One suspects that this is recycling that Scott Pruitt would find laudatory.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Trumpled work-out:
Rachid Maiga, 27, and Tshyrad Oates, 25, told WNBC-TV in New York they were playing basketball for a few minutes at the LA Fitness club in Secaucus on April 15 when an employee asked them to leave.
Gruesome and familiar details at the link.
Here’s the thumbnail: Of course, the police were called and of course there is a video and of course the video went viral and of course LA Fitness apologized after that happened and of course the victims think the apology is about as sincere as a Trump promise . . . .