April, 2012 archive
The Sultan of Sobriquet 0
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Aside:
Oddly enough, the last time I looked, Communism was dead, dead, dead, except to the Republican Party, which seems determined to keep it alive.
Via BartBlog.
Beer Giggles 0
The New York Daily News reports the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a bar. The article does not say who paid for the study, but I’m thinking it was a group of men or a beer company.
“We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks,” psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking, says in the article, which I have forwarded to my wife.
Which leads one to wonder, would beer-battered fish be a double heaping helping of IQ food?
Rules of Engagement 0
This is slightly dated, as George Zimmerman is now in jail on charges of second degree murder, but the bit about the difference between “stand your ground” and “chase someone down” is still valid. That section starts about 2:25 into the video.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and talk about anything in a relaxed atmosphere.
When: Thursday, April 14, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
Base Instincts 0
James Carville, via the Quotemaster:
Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that’s a campaign that’s going down the toilet. It’s a pretty good indication that they’re not eating up any territory, they can’t get anybody in the center to support them, they’re getting shelled back into their own bunker.
We Need Single Payer 0
Thom explains why the rest of the world thinks we are crazy:
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Bump.
(snip)
The total number of people receiving jobless benefits fell by 98,000 in the week ended March 31 to 3.25 million.
In addition to the jobless claims, the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs decreased by about 34,000 to 3.22 million in the week ended March 24.
The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits, which tends to track the jobless rate, held at 2.6 percent, today’s report showed.
Stray Thought 0
I must be getting old.
I’m starting to get spammed by The Scooter Store.
Little Ricky’s Legacy 0
Dick Polman thinks that Little Ricky’s campaign, now “suspended” (whatever that means), has severely damaged Mitt the Flip:
And Santorum will be with us again. Having made the case to the right that Romney is phony, he will soon do the opposite and seek to rally the base to Romney – to prove his loyalty to the party, of course, because he wants to nurture his prospects for 2016 (if Romney loses) or 2020 (if Romney wins). Ah, politics and its endless ironic iterations.
Meanwhile, Field wonders what Mitt has to do to be relabeled from flipper to liar. A snippet:
“During a debate in November, when moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced himself by saying that “Wolf” is really his first name, Romney greeted the audience by saying, “I’m Mitt Romney, and yes, Wolf, that’s also my first name.” In fact, Willard is his first name. It’s a lie notable for being so mundane: Why would someone fudge their name? It’s almost as if he can’t control himself.”
I don’t think he can.
A Picture Is Worth . . . 0
Mary Schmich considers the positive side of cameras everywhere:
A Chicago sunset. Light rippling on the morning lake. The skyline swaggering. Wrigley Field on opening day.
(snip)
I don’t spell any of that out with the photos I send. All I type is an explanatory word or two, caption-style, and he usually texts me back something equally pithy, like “Pretty” or “I needed that.”
I had not thought about it in any depth, but I find myself doing the same thing. If it’s kittens or bunnies or funny license plates, they go to Susan; if it’s anything Virginia Tech, to my brother; and so on. (I used to send them to Facebook, but I decided a long time ago that Zuckerberg knows too much about me already and I was going to stop feeding his databases.)
It is an almost effortless, even lazy (in my case) way to stay in touch while keeping a personal touch.
Eye of the Beholder 0
“Judicial activism” is a decision that the right-wing opposes. Robyn Blumner:
The stark contrast between liberal and conservative “activists,” if one must use that phrase, is that ground-breaking liberal decisions typically stand for expanding notions of social fairness and civil rights and liberties, while conservatives more often use judicial power to protect wealth, power and authority.
Click to read the rest.
Cutting the Cable 0
Wildflower explains how she cut the cable, cut the cable bill, cut back on TV, and is enjoying it more:
Follow the link for a how-to.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
