First Looks category archive

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

In the Las Vegas Sun, Dan Thomasson wonders just how low television can go.

(Date fixed. Copy and paste is not necessarily your friend.)

Join us for conversation and fun at a special pre-Thanksgiving get-together at Gordon Biersch (not at Croc’s).

When: November 21, 6:00 p. m.

Where:
Gordon Biersch
4561 Virginia Beach Blvd (Town Center)
Virginia Beach, VA (map)

When the kids were little, Ex and I attended S.T.E.P. training classes. They were, as a matter of fact, quite useful and down to earth.

It seems that Philadelphia has attended also, and implemented “logical consequences” for drivers on a particularly abused stretch of road.

In an attempt to slow everybody down, the city has installed sensors in the roadway that determine the speed of vehicles approaching Fountain Green, about a half-mile north of the Girard Avenue Bridge.

If a vehicle passes the sensor going above the speed limit, the light at Fountain Green turns red.

Stephen Mihn recounts the strange history of oleomargarine.

Warning: Language.

Now on Tuesdays for Norfolk (still Thursdays for Virginia Beach) to make it easier for persons with commitments on either day to catch at least one per month.

Drinking Liberally is a gathering place for liberals. Socialize and laugh in a friendly atmosphere.

When: 6 p., Tuesday, November 12.

Where:
Uno Chicago Grill
5900 Virginia Beach Blvd
(Janaf Shopping Center) (map)

Details here. Meetup page here.

Family matters through Monday.

Via Sampler, an image site (some images NSFW).

Telephone scam du jour:

Scammers are telling people that they owe the IRS money, which must be paid promptly by a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer, IRS officials said in a release.

If victims refuse to send money, callers will threaten them with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license.

The usual warnings.

Faded glory.

The USS Forrestal, considered the first of the Navy’s supercarriers and currently docked in Philadelphia, has been sold for 1 cent to a Texas company that specializes in scrap metal.

I remember seeing her traversing the Chesapeake when I was a young ‘un.

There’s a picture of her at the link.

The incoherence of some of the answer is astounding.

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*Will the real Susie Sampson please stand up?

Indeed.

Via Contradict Me.

The fever dreams were actually quite entertaining.

Last night, the fever broke. No more fever dreams.

I’m calling in sick. I have a code in de dose.

Time off.