July, 2013 archive
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Tomorrow 0
Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us and talk about anything in a relaxed atmosphere.
When: Thursday, july 25th, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
Update: Date corrected. For some reason, I’ve been a day off all day.
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“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten” 0
In the Roanoke Times, Lila Sullivan remembers growing up white under Jim Crow in South Carolina. (My mother was from South Carolina. Apparently, in Ms. Sullivan’s part of the state, my grandmother would have been known as a “Cotton Dolly.”)
A nugget:
Aside:
My father’s mother was UDC and DAR and quit them both long before I came along because, according to my father, she thought the other ladies were too damned snobbish about too much nothing.
Many Happy Returns 0
The Regent gives back:
In a statement distributed Tuesday through Twitter, the governor again asserted that he has done nothing illegal and said he intends to remain in office through the end of his term in January.
Most notable about this is that The Regent does not seem to have had any idea how accepting huge “gifts” in cash and in kind from someone who wanted something (must-read link) from the Commonwealth could be or seem in any way improper.
As far as I can tell from the story, he still doesn’t.
He regrets the “embarrassment,” not the venality.
Theatre . . . 0
. . . of the Absurd.
Are lap dances a form of theater?
That’s what the owners of three Philadelphia “gentlemen’s clubs” are contending as they try to block the city from taxing income from private dances – a move that would cost them as much as $1.5 million.
During the next few weeks, the city’s Tax Review Board will decide whether Club Risque, Cheerleaders, and Delilah’s will owe an additional “amusement tax,” . . . .
Yeah.
Right.
And the “gentlemen” are critics.
Tidbit:
Delilah’s is enshrined in an episode of Forensic Files.
No Minimum 0
The Colbert Report
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GIve Me a Break (Updated) 0
Based on annual statistical trends, well over 10,000 persons were born yesterday, of which it appears that only one mattered.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
The resident curmudgeon at my local rag gets one right.
Light Bloggery 0
Family matters.
Absurd News 0
Warning: Naughty images.
“Everybody Must Get Stoned” 0
Dick Polman takes a look at the fuss over Rolling Stone’s “Boston Bomber” cover.
Anyone who pays the least attention to Rolling Stone knows that it long ago branched out from covering “the rock scene’ (if, indeed, there is such a thing any more) to covering economic and social issues.
Anyone who read it from the beginning (and that’s when I used to read it) also knows that it’s never been a “fanzine.”
His reaction is pretty much the same as mine: this is a cavalcade of stupid, a tempest over non-existent tea in a broken tea party pot. A nugget:
And that’s not even the best nugget. Follow the link for more.
Facebook Frolics 0
FB status update spooks the spooks, leading to a haunting.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Surprise strangers, courteously.
“They were leaving unarmed with my brother (and) another in the back (of a pick-up truck),” Kayla Redman said in an email. “My brother shielded the younger boy (and) took a bullet.”
Redman is the sister of Daniel Carlton Redman, 21, of 628 Cedar Glen Circle, who was found dead Saturday about 3.5 miles away from where the shooting began at a nearby house.
