November, 2010 archive
Dustbiters 0
This week’s crew of ex-banks is starting to assemble:
If it’s not one not-bank, it’s another:
Twits on Twitter 0
Really, folks, including the authorities, are taking twits far too seriously.
Unfloppable 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews one of the railroad men involved in the incident that inspired Unstoppable, the movie whose relentless onslaught of advertisements has annoyed me so much that I shall probably avoid it (no link provided to the movie because I’m already sick of it).
Aside: I used to work for the railroad. I can tell they phonied up the facts just from the ads.
No real railroader would be heard saying, “I’m starting to like this job.” They may love railroading–the railroad is fun and I miss it–but real railroaders aren’t going to admit that they like their jobs.
They’d rather talk about back pay.
Lacking in the Bushes 0
Bob Barr, who, you may recall, led the move to impeach President Clinton, is not impressed with George the Worst’s memoir.
Coming from Barr, the word, “supposedly,” in the last sentence of the excerpt is telling.
Lack of Progress Dept. 0
Twits on Twitter 0
It should give us pause, on both sides of the Atlantic, how quickly members of the right wing leaps to thoughts, even in jest, of death for those who disagree with them.
Veterans’ Day Reprise (Updated) 0
Shaun Mullen tells the rest of the story of the girl in the photograph.
Addendum:
Link removed. Shaun emailed me that he had to delete the post because it was giving the rest of Kiko’s House the vapors for some reason which he could not figure out.
Computers. Great when they work. Otherwise, otherwise.
Read this one instead.
Lord Mayor of the Flies
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Deficit Reduction Report Report 0
Readers Digest Condensed Books version, courtesy of “Seeing the Forest”:
And the middle class gives up the home mortgage deduction so the rich can get their taxes reduced?
Update from the Foreclosure-Based Economy 0
Locally,
Meanwhile, Virginia AG Cuccinelli stops fighting against science he doesn’t like long enough to do some some actual attorney-generalling:
Veterans’ Day 0
“Because we are already there” is not a reason. It’s a rationalization.
QOTD 0
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Crotchrocketeer 0
Episode 1: Liftoff.
Negron zipped past the officer in the northbound lanes and shortly afterward crashed into the back of the SUV at mile post 52.8 in Mantua, police said.
A rough landing, but the astronut is recovering,
Crabbing about Apples 4
I would suspect these folks already have computers, likely even laptops.
Is there any kind of justification for locking them into the walled orchard:
(snip)
It’s happening here in the city and in the state:
It is possible that there are data security concerns that justify the government’s purchasing and setting up the computers, but let’s look at the math: They could get laptops for half the price of iPads and netbooks for a third the price.
They are letting themselves get sucked into the Apple vortex of hype.