June, 2013 archive
Droning On, Signature Failure Dept. 0
Raining robotic death from the skies.
Because we can.
The Other Cheek 0
Wilkie Collins, in The Moonstone, Part 29:
Miss Clark affectionately reminds Mr. Franklin Blake that she is a Christian and that it is therefore quite impossible to offend her.
The self-styled “Christians” we have in the States seem to delight, no, wallow in, even seek out, offense.
Then, again, theirs is a religion of “an eye for an eye.”
I forget.
Is that in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John?
Oh, yeah, it was Hammurabi.
Zero Tolerance, Zero Sense 0
How stupid do you have to be to qualify for a job as “school administrator”?
Seriously.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Here’s a link to the story at their local television station.
The Secesh 0
North Colorado? Really?
Sauce for the Gander 0
Dr. Jill McDevitt contemplates the effect of a role reversal.
Light Bloggery 0
Break time.
Dustbiters 0
This master of the universe hit the wall yesterday.
And now for today:
A Pickup Mall Game 0
On April 11, Barton and his group were asked to leave Arden Fair when some women complained after being contacted by his students, said Steve Reed, chief of mall security.
“The line is crossed when there is a complaint,” Reed said.
This fellow went to the mall yesterday, not to pick up, but the get picked up by the cops as an act of civil disobedience.
Mall management played it smart; in the absence of any complaints, they ignored him.
Aside:
Words have meaning.
“Picking up” a woman is not the same as “meeting” one.
Don’t get me started on a skeevy business based on teaching manipulation.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
I’ve participated in my share of protests over the years.
Shouting at someone in mid-sentence may be a lot of things–it may even sometimes be warranted–but I really don’t see how it can be considered “having an ‘open conversation.'”
Afterthought:
Why do some of my fellow lefties seem to think that the way to get what they want is to alienate potential allies?
Don’t Get Rooked 0
The Tampa Bay Times reveals its list of the 50 worst charities in America, as well as details of how it made the determinations.
Wo-Wo-Wo-Wo Those Wildwood Days 3
I have spent several pleasant vacations at Wildwood.
Wildwood has a great beach and is proudly tacky, and it carries off tacky quite stylishly, thank you.
In fact, Virginia Beach could do with a little more Wildwood in its DNA.
My Wildwood Days weren’t like this.
The Surveillance State 0
Everyone seems to be going gaga over this story–everyone, at least, who hasn’t been paying attention for the past decade.
This is old news.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
As Bob Cesca points out, this was the NRA’s fabled good guy with a gun.
The man then pointed the gun at the floor and pulled the trigger. Shot from the live round struck the floor, then bounced up and struck several people, according to reports.
Afterthought:
So we are back to the subject of gun nut intelligence tests . . . .
Wheelwrights and Wrongs 0
New York Magazine’s Dan Amira explains why conservatives are up in arms about New York City’s “Bike Share” program.
He thinks it has little to do with bicycles or bicyclists (including the type of cyclists that I recently heard called the “spandex mafia”) and everything to do with what bicycles and bicycling symbolize to the conservative mind. A nugget:
Follow the link. Methinks he has a point.