First Looks category archive
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Virginia Beach Democratic Committee Fourth Saturday Breakfast 0
Date: Saturday, February 26th
Time: 9-11 a. m.
Special Guest Speaker: Louisa Strayhorn, the last African American to serve on the Virginia Beach City Council
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 pretty good buffet, too–plenty of variety).
More information here.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach 0
Struggling start-up needs your help.
When: Thursday, February 24, 6 p
Where:
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One Fish Two Fish
Long Point Bay Marina
2109 West Great Neck Road
(Four blocks south of Shore Drive)
Virginia Beach, Va. (Map)
Showing up (and paying your own check) is the only qualification for membership.
Facebook Frolics (Updated) 0
State of Maryland demands prison guard job applicant’s social networking login information and reads his posts and messages.
This goes beyond being careful, which is wise, to being creepy. The State of Maryland is confusing itself with the TSA.
The ACLU has more details, plus a petition to the Secretary of Public Safety of Maryland for you to sign.
Addendum, the Next Day:
The policy has been suspended for 45 days pending review.
TSA Security Theatre 0
Harry Shearer tells of his encounter with TSA en-pants-ed patdowns on Sunday’s Le Show (the story’s in the first few minutes of the show; you can listen at the link).
He silently put up with it because he wanted to make his plane.
He strikes back:
Light Bloggery 0
Break time.
Virginia Beach Democratic Committee Third Thursday Dinner 0
- What: Virginia Beach Democratic Committee Third Thursday Dinner
- When: February 17th, 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.
I have attended several of these. They tend to be smaller gatherings, highly informal, and a lot of fun. Don’t know whether I’ll make it this week, though–a cold seems to have caught me.
For more information, email VaBeachBoy@aol.com
Obligatory GRAMMY Post 0
Who cares?
Ships that Pass 0
In todays’s local rag, Mike Gruss describes the machinations involved in getting the Super Bowl military flyover (or any flyover) to happen at just the right time.
Officials initially told Hewlett he would need to fly over the stadium at 17:22 military time – that’s 5:22 p.m. Central. A few months later, it was amended, down to the second. He would arrive at 17:22.45.
So, what happens when the national anthem is sung more slowly than in the rehearsal? Gruss answers that question.
Back Alley Beauty 0
A surgeon once told me that there is no such thing as routine surgery, that, whenever he cut someone open, it could never be routine.
I saw the first reports of this story yesterday, but refrained from mentioning it until more details came out. More details at the link.
Walker said the victim checked into the Hampton Inn on Bartram Avenue and sometime over the weekend received the injections. She was taken to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital at 1:30 a.m. Monday after complaining of chest pains and experiencing shortness of breath.
She died later that day. Fredric Hellman, Delaware County medical examiner, said a preliminary cause of death will not be released until the victim’s relatives are notified. The second woman, who received injections to her buttocks and hips, has not been hospitalized, police said.
The woman died because she believed that enhancing changing the shape of her hips would improve her life.
I doubt she came up with this idea on her own, but I suspect she would not have followed through had someone not convinced her that it was “routine.”
Afterthought:
I cannot judge her apparently desperate desire to look different. I remember growing up dork.
She is victim, not perpetrator.
DWB? 0
Looks like it to me.
Super Bull VI: A Celebration of the NFL 0
In weight training, there is a lift called the “clean and jerk.”
I’ve found the jerk, but not the clean.
Joan Vennochi writes in the Boston Globe:
“It is like a football game,’’ he said. “You throw an interception and you bounce back from your mistake.’’
That may be true for him, but what about the woman who suffered from his “mistake’’? His behavior was ugly enough to merit the league suspension and this admonition from the DA who declined to press charges against him: “We are not condoning Mr. Roethlisberger’s actions that night. . . . If he were my son, I would say, ‘Ben, grow up.’ ’’
Afterthought
I am not a fan of Michael Vick.
Nevertheless, I am struck that Vick got jail for mistreating dogs, whereas Roethlisberger got suspended for a short time for treating a woman like a dog.
This communicates a distressing dissonance between our concern for dogs and our concern for women that I care not to contemplate.
Aside:
Jesus should charge royalties for being used as a PR tool by folks who discover him just as their public careers are in jeopardy. Not that I would question anyone’s sinceri oh, never mind.
Calvacade of Crazy 0
Dennis G. on sacrifice.
Closing the Rape Loophole 0
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Home Takeover 0
When television’s alternate reality meets, well, reality–what’s not broadcast:
By Monday evening, however, Ward felt he had to keep a vigil in his driveway. A production truck sat in his yard, and a celebrity tent was pitched near his living-room window.
Strangers, craning for views of TV host Ty Pennington and other celebrity designers, trampled through his yard until crews erected a temporary fence.
The story goes on to report that the neighbors, by and large, are willing to put up with it because they know it’s temporary and they like the persons whose home is being made over.
More at the link.