2012 archive
Text Booked 0
From El Reg:
“It is really very sad,” Ayesha Vardag, dubbed Britain’s top divorce lawyer by the Law Society, told The Telegraph.
“We find a lot is that there are a lot of text message ‘bustings’ on Christmas Day, usually because the husband leaves the phone around and the mistress is sending messages. It is amazing how many times that is what catches people out.”
Cliffnotes 0
MarketWatch’s John Shinal thinks it’s not a big deal:
Yet a funny thing happened to Y2K on its way to making mayhem: Companies and governments prepared for it. When the feared date finally arrived, it was close to a nonevent.
The villain known as the fiscal cliff now has less than a month left as a media star. The fear of it will have been worse, I believe, than the passing of the thing itself.
The scariest thing about the fiscal cliff is its name. Aside from that, it’s Congress-made problem that can be solved by Congress, if Congress has the guts to stand up to the wingnut right.
Via Philly dot com.
Stray Thought, Special Christmas Edition 0
It is ironic that the biggest argument against Christianity is the conduct of those who most loudly proclaim their own Christian-ness.
The NRA’s Promised Land Is Just Across the River 0
I go away for one day, one damn day, to take my aunt some cheese straws for Christmas, and return to a new list of innocents dead of the politeness of an armed society.
These were actually lured into a trap and picked off like pigeons.
The NRA’s city on a hill is Dodge City. The hill, Boot Hill.
Republicans Are Agin’ Fedrul Spending 0
Except when they are for it.
“Nor would any state that suffered $37 billion in damages,” the governor said at a news conference in Newark on Friday.
You can’t have it both ways.
Unless you are a Republican.
It’s the AC/DC Party.