2012 archive
Dustbitters 0
Banking continues to reach new heights of FAIL, starting with (surprise, surprise) another Georgia bank:
Shipwrights 0
Radio Times investigates the builder and the building of the S. S. United States. From the website:
Follow the link to listen or listen here (MP3).
See pictures of the liner as it is today at my boating site.
Mitt the Flip Off the Brits 3
The Guardian is keeping a running total of Mitt the Flip’s diplomatic triumphs on the other side of the Big Pond.
Really, no one could have predicted(TM).
Image via Balloon Juice.
Home on the (Firing) Range 0
Dick Polman imagines Father Knows Best as told by the full-metal-jacket Viagra crowd.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children with politeness.
It happened in a car parked in the 14800 block of Empire Street in Dale City about 3:25 p.m. Wednesday, Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said in a news release.
A female family member called 911 and told police the boy, now identified as Kyrell Kyyon McNeill of the 14800 block of Empire Street, accidentally shot himself in the head, Perok said.
No doubt that, if all the neighbors had been packing heat, this would not have happened.
Or something like that.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits win on appeal.
Stray Thought 0
If nutcases packing heat is the problem, more nutcases packing more heat is unlikely to be the solution.
Decline and Fall 0
At Psychology Today, Ray B. Williams wonders whether the United States is in decline.
I know, it’s an apocalyptic question that is usually employed to support blowing up faceless, usually brown, people somewhere in the world, on the theory that decline may be blocked by piling up bodies of dead strangers in faraway places with strange-sounding names.
Williams’s take has a twist. Among others, he cites Alfred McCoy, who suggests that blowing up faceless, usually brown, people somewhere in the world is the problem, not the solution:
Read the rest.
TSA Security Theatre 0
You are the puppet, they are the strings.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
At Philly dot com, two law professors conclude that Republican “gut out the vote” laws violate the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, which states succintly:
A nugget from the column:
If they can’t come up with the money for the qualifying documents, they can’t vote. The 24th Amendment denies states the power to create such a financial barrier to the ballot box.
Mitt the Flip the Bird to the Truth 0
In Florida, Mitt the Flip brought forth two companies to prove that they succeeded all on their ownsome, without government interference or assistance.
Tampabay dot com looked into the claims and found slight flaws (details at the link):
Government, in other words, had nothing to do with it.
But the Romney campaign couldn’t have picked more puzzling examples. Far from not needing big government, the Tampa companies have embraced government and benefited from it.
Jon Stewart asks,
Do you really want to hang entire your campaign on a willful out-of-context misunderstanding?
To answer Mr. Stewart (not that he’ll ever notice me), “Of course they do. It’s all they got.”
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Down somewhat, but still oscillating in the same general area:
(snip)
The volatility may last one more week, a Labor Department spokesman said as the figures were released to the press. The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure of jobless claims, fell to 367,250, the lowest since March, from 376,000.
The number of people continuing to collect jobless benefits shrank by 30,000 in the week ended July 14 to 3.29 million.
Bloomberg’s experts still not able to pick the ponies irrelevant unless you’re running their numbers.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It is not polite to shoot yourself in the brain while paying the bill.
An off-duty officer saw the incident and confronted Canady, who allegedly ran off.
Via TPM.