First Looks category archive
The Entitlement Society 0
The Regent plays his white male Republican Get Out of Jail Free card.
After all, accountability is for those people, if you know what I mean.
Pah!
Aside:
One of my neighbors said to me the other day, “My old neighborhood was getting dark, if you know what I mean.” I knew.
Light Bloggery 0
We have weather, and I’m under it.
Brotherhood Is a Wonderful Thing 0
Then, again, maybe not so much.
The photo depicted 29 members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity – none of them African American – posing with what was described as a Beyoncé sex doll. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, one of the members had received the as doll a gag gift during a Secret Santa event.
How could persons so stupid get into an Ivy League Scho–oh, never mind.
Afterthought:
Open your eyes, see the racism. The distance between this frat’s antic and blackface minstrel shows is nil, and their apology is bunk.
They apologize because they got caught.
Pah!
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“Liberty Ships” 0
My local rag points out that two remain afloat.
The idea was to build them faster than they could be sunk, though by the end of the war, only 229 of the 2,710 ships built had been lost, Porter said.
A little more than 441 feet long, about 57 feet wide, with a draft of roughly 28 feet, they could carry about 10,000 tons of cargo, enough to fill about 300 railroad cars.
Pictures at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 2
The Rude One considers Mary Landrieu’s impending loss in Louisiana and points to the implicit racist elephant element in the room campaign. Read the rest (warning: rudeness).
Light Bloggery 0
Family affairs.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to customer service.
Drinking Liberally Tomorrow, in Chesapeake 0
Come and have some fun.
When: Thursday, November 20, 6:00 p. m.
Where:
Greene Turtle
1401 Greenbrier Pkwy, # 2260 (Greenbrier Mall)
Chesapeake, VA (map)
Light Bloggery 0
There’s weather, and I’m under it.
Not very far under it, but under it nonetheless, so I’m taking a break.
A Billing System Based on Balderdash 0
Dan Casey investigates the “Case of the $928 Band-Aid.”
Read it and ask yourself, what can be right about a system that works like that?
Light Bloggery 0
Working the polls, and you should be too.
Voting Is Not a Right. It Is a Duty. 0
As the Republican voter suppression tactics show, if you don’t use your vote, you will lose your vote.
Via Job’s Anger.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.