Words Fail Me category archive

He’s 66. She’s now 18 and a mother.

The only surprising thing about this story is that he’s not a “family values” Republican. This sort of stuff is usually the territory of “family values” Republicans, but he calls himself a Democrat.

What’s really screwy is that, after his “dalliance” came out and he got hauled into court for “dallying” with an underage girl, he resigned his office and then got reelected in a special election over the opposition of his own party, emphasizing that what is ultimately wrong with our elected representatives is the voters–and the non-voters.

I got no problem with lust. I understand lust; there is a time and a place for lust. Yes, there is such a thing as “safe lust.”

It’s the stupid . . . . It overwhelms.

Via my local rag.

Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.

. . . and I have never played Boggle.

About one-third of Virginia’s students aren’t ready for kindergarten in at least one learning category, according a two-year study published recently by researchers at the University of Virginia.

Those categories include literacy, math, social skills and self-regulation – children’s ability to manage their emotions and behavior. About 20 percent of students lack the needed social skills. About 11 percent lack literacy skills, and 8.5 percent aren’t ready for math, according to the report.

Five-year-olds are supposed to be ignorant. That’s what schools are for.

Words fail me.

Afterthought:

“Educational science” has become a scam.

Of course, back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, it was widely rumored that persons who concentrated in the “E-School” did so because they were unable to cut it in a real major, such as history or physics or chemistry or sociology or even for Pete’s sake Art History. That seems to be unchanged.

We are a society awash in stupid.

Ignorance can be cured. The cure is called “learning.”

Stupid has no cure.

I shall stop now. Otherwise, I shall just sputter.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

You can’t make this stuff up.

A. When it’s a “Human Performance Center.”

Mt ex was a nurse.

If she had to be hospitalized, she would get two gowns; she would wear one frontwards and one backwards, so as not to parade about with bits hanging out for others to see.

It would seem that some genius has come up with a way to make that unnecessary.

One wonders how many brain cells that required.

Colbert takes on food insecurity and “salvage stores.”

Below the fold in case it autoplays (also, there’s likely a commercial).

Read more »

All Janis Joplin wanted was a Mercedes-Benz . . . .

Couples in the (Seattle–ed.) region have taken notice. On the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe, there are at least 50 pages created by Seattle-area residents trying to raise money to help with the creation or adoption of a child.

A Mountlake Terrace pair have raised $13,000 for what they say will go toward IVF treatments, surgery and six months of missed work.

Twenty-nine donors have contributed $2,785 to an Issaquah couple who hope to adopt a little boy from South Korea.

The commentary writes itself, so I’m not even going to start.

. . . but the thief slipped away like a greased pig.

The 36,000 pounds of shortening in a semitrailer stolen Sunday from St. Petersburg is still missing, police said early Wednesday.

Authorities found the semitrailer late Monday abandoned in Hialeah, police have said. It was bound for a Publix distribution center in Lakeland before it was stolen from Coastal Towing on 118th Ave. N, according to St. Petersburg police.

. . . in the Keystone State.

Junkyard seadogs.

. . . for the past several years, according to internal emails obtained by The Virginian-Pilot, the U.S. Navy has been negotiating to acquire Japan’s retired fleet of MH-53E Sea Dragons. The Navy wants to harvest the old helicopters for parts to help keep its own Sea Dragons flying until 2025.

Steel-plated self indulgence.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen apparently doesn’t get everything he wants – at least not yet.

A Soviet Scud surface-to-surface missile was a no-problem purchase for him at $349,000. A rusty and inoperable Cold War-era M55 self-propelled howitzer was a comparable bargain at $45,000.

But when it came to an authentic Panzer IV, a World War II-era German tank, Allen, an avid collector of historical military planes and other equipment, has had to go to court in Redwood City, even after paying $2.5 million for it.

Oh my.

Organizers of a 5k race that encourages women runners to dress like schoolgirls say they have canceled a race in Raleigh.

Sexy Schoolgirl race organizers told city officials on Thursday they were canceling the race, in part because of the “community controversy” it had created.

One cannot imagine how trading on fantasies of pedophilia could possibly cause “community controversy,” now, really, can one?

Men are indeed pigs.

Read more »

The Conservative Mind, as portrayed by Jonah Goldberg:

I supported the war, and I still think the arguments in favor at the time were superior to the arguments against. Alas, the facts on the ground didn’t care about the arguments.

No self-awareness, no self-awareness whatsoever.

Via Kos.

With apologies to the blog of the same name, this is the real-life lawyers, guns, and money.