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Mano Singham explains how.

Read more about the malevolent history of the American lawn.

Via Contradict Me (Warning: Some risque content).

What Atrios said.

The mope searched the victims Facebook posts for clues to their, email accounts, then broke into them and helped himself:

Once he took over women’s email accounts, George Bronk searched their folders for nude or semi-nude photographs or videos sent to their husbands or boyfriends and distributed the images to their contact list, prosecutors said.

He did this by figuring out their “password recovery” questions.

I do not enter answers to “password recovery” questions unless a site demands it; if they do, I put in an answer to another question.

I write my passwords down and store them in several separate secure, encrypted locations.

Important passwords, like financial ones, do not get stored on electronic media.

Date: Saturday, July 23rd.

Special Guest Speaker: Guest Speaker: Lucy Morrisette of OFA.

Location: Bubba’s Deli & BBQ, 3600 Dam Neck Rd, Virginia Beach (Map).

Cost: Adults $10.00, Under 12 $6.00 for all-you-can-eat buffet (it’s a good value for the price).

More information here.

It seems to have been part of a variation of the old badger game, in which theft, rather than extortion, was the goal:

During a motel room beating administered by three attackers, a South Carolina man was struck in the head by a Bible and told by one of his assailants that he needed to read the Good Book.

Like so many who recommend reading the Bible, they ignore the messages.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

In the La-La Land of the lotus-eaters:

The grasshoppers that are covering the foothills and pastures from the Merced-Mariposa county line up toward the mountains live up to their name — the devastating grasshopper, or melanoplus devastator.

• What: Virginia Beach Democratic Committee Third Thursday Dinner
• When: July 21st, 6:00 PM
• Where: Kelly’s Hilltop Tavern, 1936 Laskin Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23454 (map), in the nonsmoking section.

Show up, order off the menu (separate checks), socialize, and talk politics–or whatever else interests you.

See the website for more information.

Sharpton counters each talking point most skillfully.

Excerpt:

What would be so intolerable to the seniors that you say are in the tea party, to those who have Medicaid and Medicare in the tea party, to say ‘we’ve got to put on the table talking about tax cuts for corporate jets . . . ‘?

Via C&L.

Off to drink liberally.

Drinking Liberally is a support group for liberals, where you can realize you are not alone.

When: 6 p., Wednesday, July 13.

Where:
Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub
241 Granby Street
Norfolk, Va. (map)

Moved to The Boot, 123 West 21st Street, Norfolk.

Details here.

More about Drinking Liberally.

Watch this. Wait for the surprise ending.

Via Hanlon.

From El Reg:

Although US Transportation Security Administration screeners are encouraged to caress others’ trousers, one blue-shirted crotch watchmen used his own as a temporary cache for an iPad he’d bagged from a traveller’s bag.

TSA employee Nelson Santiago was spotted by a Continental Airlines employee as he was stuffing said Cupertinian foundleslab into his pants when inspecting luggage at a Florida airport.

This guy had stolen over 50 grand worth of stuff in six months, selling it over unspecified internet sales sites.

Also, fondleslab.

Wow.

According to the story, this has lain undisturbed for years and years:

A US$22 billion treasure trove in a south Indian temple, the world’s single-largest treasure find, has sparked an intensifying debate across India about who owns this ancient wealth of the gods: priests or the people?

Much fascinating detail and history at the link.

It’s being kept under guard.

Heh.

“Twitter? Who cares?” scoffed CNN reporter Jeffrey Toobin, a former prosecutor who often joined the network’s panel discussions of the Anthony case. “It’s like people talking on street corners. The idea that because a few people are upset on Twitter that we as a society should do something differently, I think it’s insane.”

The resident curmudgeon at my local rag felt it necessary to sound off on the Casey Anthony case in this morning’s fishwrapper.

In the last paragraph of her column, she quotes a local lawyer as saying:

“I don’t mean to be disrespectful to my jury, but the problem I have is that juries seem to think too much,” Reed said. “They require the commonwealth to eliminate all possible doubt … Jurors expect DNA and a smoking gun.

“But you go outside and the grass is wet. That’s pretty good circumstantial evidence that it rained.”

Unless it were the dew or the underground sprinkler system.

And that is “reasonable doubt.”