First Looks category archive
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Tomorrow 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and help our chapter leader celebrate her birthday.
When: Thursday, September 27th, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Drinking Liberally Norfolk Tomorrow 0
Note: During the election season, meeting day has been moved to Thursday.
Drinking Liberally is a gathering place for liberals. Socialize and laugh in a friendly atmosphere.
When: 6 p., Thursday, September 13.
Where:
Lola’s Caribbean Restaurant
328 W 20th St (map)
Details here. Meetup page here.
Hooters Gets a Rube Job 0
I went to a Hooters once.
Back when I was a road warrior, I was stuck for a week in the suburban wasteland north of Atlanta and running out of restaurants for dinner. So, in a spirit of public service and exploration, I figured I’d try the Hooters in the parking lot of the shopping center about two blocks up the street.
Anyone who has ever traveled for business will tell you that dinner is normally the high point of the day.
I was not impressed. The aggressive mediocrity of the menu was slightly surpassed by the lackadaisical service, but not by the skill of the kitchen.
And, frankly, Hooters’s most publicized selling point doesn’t interest me, not because I don’t like to admire the flowers, but that I favor spotting them in the wild instead if looking through a glass at a garden on display. A stolen peek is more interesting than a burlesque show (not that the poor kids working in that dive would have qualified for burlesque).
Then there’s the smarmy sanctimony of Hooters’s efforts to rationalize their name . . . .
From Bloomberg:
Hooters, which is facing increasing competition from other so-called “breastaurants,” including Titled Kilt and Twin Peaks, is vying for customers as U.S. consumer confidence declines and prices for raw ingredients rise. Confidence among Americans fell in August by the most in 10 months as households grew more pessimistic about the economic outlook.
Is It Safe To Come Out Now? 0
Are the political conventions over?
Laborious Day 0
Contradict Me sees the irony:
…except for laborers.
Now this isn’t 100%, and I’m only speaking from my own observations, but the only people who seem to get to honor Labor Day with an actual day off are those who work for the government, are in positions of power within their companies, or both. Meanwhile the service industry is alive and kicking pretty much all day long? Want bubble tea? Labor Day sale! Want to go clothes shopping? Labor Day sale! Wanna see a movie? Well..I don’t think there’s a sale for that, but the theater is still open.
Vodka of Distinction 0
Warning: Some language.
No doubt this was served here.
Down at the Farm 0
The cable modem is celebrating the birthday of this blog by going to that big recycling bin in the sky.
It’s not completely gone, but goes in and out.
The regularly scheduled insanity will resume when the connection does.
Meanwhile, visit some of the fine blogs in the blogroll, over there, on the sidebar.
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Happy Birthday to Me 0
Celebrating seven years ofuninterrupted drivel unleashed
on the innerwebs!
Every time I think I’ve run out of blogging juice, Republicans do something to re-energize the outrage.
I shall celebrate by taking it easy today.
Light Bloggery 0
Connection issues. Back when it is.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Tomorrow 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and help our chapter leader celebrate her birthday.
When: Tuesday, August 22nd, 6 p.
Where New Location:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
This Can’t Be Climate Change 0
This is merely happenstance.
“It looks like a house sitting in the middle of the bay,” the Cambridge-area resident said. “We just live with it.”
Sea level rise is a reccurring nightmare for the people, environment and species of Wicomico, Dorchester and Somerset counties. The low-lying land floods regularly, marshes are disappearing, and plants and animals are becoming endangered, some extinct.
Romney’s Bain 1
Jacob Weisberg takes an intense look at the leveraged buy-out industry (AKA vulture capitalism), which makes money by gutting companies, and how it differs from industrial capitalism, which makes money by building companies.
A nugget:
This difference encapsulates the change from corporate titans who lived in the same world as the people who worked for them, in an America with real social mobility, to a financial overclass that makes its own rules and has choked off social mobility. The elder Romney wasn’t embarrassed to explain what he’d done as a businessman or to release his tax returns.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.