2012 archive
Snaking Toilets 0
Not a job I’d fancy–The Sacramento Bee profiles the Ramirez Rattlesnake Removal company. A nugget:
Arresting Headline of the Day 0
Navy Operational Support Center groundbreaking planned today in Moon
You can get there via the Imperial cruiser.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Tamba Bay dot com’s John Romano confesses the error of his ways:
They knew better, I knew nothing.
When I recently criticized the state’s Republican leaders for chasing nonexistent voter fraud, I should have bowed to their insider knowledge.
After all, they were the ones paying $1.33 million to a company that has apparently turned in phony voter registration forms across Florida.
Facebook Frolics, Cheap Thrills Dept. 0
Facebook: self-love.
Turns out that when you think of Facebook, you may be feeling a hunka-hunka burning love.
Cue the Barry White makeout music.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business say the desire to indulge in Facebook, Twitter and other social-media pastimes is among the strongest temptations we now face — right up there with sex and cigarettes.
Bumper Wars 0
It’s a stickier wicket in San Jose.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Daniel Ruth dismembers Florida governor Rick Scott’s claim to disinterested non-partisanship as motive for the Florida gut out the vote movement. A nugget:
To date, dubious voter registration forms collected by Strategic Allied Consulting have been unearthed in about a dozen counties stretching from South Florida to the Panhandle. FDLE launched a formal criminal investigation this week.
Many of the forms cited mythical addresses and at least one (ahem) was for a voter who had long since passed on to that Chicago ward precinct in the sky.
Yet, while Scott’s letter was waxing ridiculous about the sanctity of the voting booth, his own party was busily at work trying to cook the books. This was a bit like Mexico’s Zetas cartel claiming to be outraged over epidemic drug trafficking, oblivious to all the shooting in the streets.
I Get Mail 0
And occasionally it contains something worth repeating.
Snow White, Superman and Pinocchio are walking along.
They see a sign: “Contest for World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” Snow White goes in, later comes out smiling, wearing a crown.
They walk along and see another sign: “Contest for World’s Strongest Man.” Superman goes in, later comes out smiling, wearing the belt.
They walk along and see a sign: “Contest for World’s Greatest Liar.” Pinocchio goes in and comes out later with his head down, crying.
“Who the hell is Mitt Romney?” Pinocchio sobs.
QOTD 0
George William Norris:
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
Tradition 0
The spirit of George Fitzhugh has not died. It is alive and well in Arkansas.
The Republican Party has become a monstrous thing.
H/T Dick Destiny for the link.
Night of the Living Morans 0
Given that the Republican party has adopted bigotry as a strategy, this is no surprise.
The word “liar” was misspelled on the sign, officers said.
H/T Delaware Liberal.
I Saw This at the Store, One Born Every Minute Dept. 0
The hula hoop returns, reborn with a snappy line of patter for the rubes.
Newsflash: There is no easy way to get and stay fit.
Free weights, baby, free weights and a bicycle.
Gentleman Clubbed 0
Offered without comment; I stand silent before the chutzpah.
But for one Montgomery County man, it also came with internal bleeding, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court last week.
Patrick Gallagher, of Lansdale, claims that a dancer slid down a stripper pole and landed on him with such force that she ruptured his bladder.