September, 2013 archive
Waffle House (and Senate) 0
Dick Polman recounts the attempts of hawkish Republicans to avoid the least appearance of agreeing with President Obama on Syria. A nugget; many more examples at the link.
Obama couldn’t have said it better. Rubio was calling for active American engagement, and we all know what he meant. But that was in April. In September, he supports passive engagement, or maybe no engagement. He says he is “unconvinced that the use of force will work.
Honest to Pete, if President Obama announced the discovery of a cure for cancer, Republicans would be agin’ it because Democrats.
Addendum:
Via Raw Story
Susie Sampson’s Sister Gets Sexy 0
A lot of this is silly, but it starts with a verity:
A puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that somewhere someone is having fun.
The Secesh 0
I don’t know what this is supposed to mean.
But, whatever it is, it can’t be good.
Stray Thought 0
Every time I must pull (or, more commonly, find a cutting implement to remove) a seal from some simple household product, I damn the Tylenol killer anew.
Dustbiter 0
This community no longer has its bank. All gone.
Oh, dear. Whatever shall they do?
(Later, after watching the Phillies forget how to play baseball against the Nats)
And they are joined by another community, but perhaps the Second, Third, and Last (with apologies to Bugs Bunny) National Banks are still solvent.
The Friendly Skies 0
Passengers reported buying tickets for $5 to $10 before United shut down the bookings on its website and phone centers to prevent more tickets from being sold or given away.
Not even that fare would get me to willingly fly that airline.
Curing an Edifice Complex 0
After 15 years, an end to a land grab (much more at the link).
Note that the Housing Authority was just the hit man. The University was Mr. Big issuing the hits, wrapped in the certainty that it was right because, after all, it’s an Educational Institution with a Rising Football Team. (What could possibly be more of a sign of virtue than a Rising Football Team?)
And, no, it won’t be an object lesson for anyone.
The next time a Mr. Big wants to take stuff from the little guys, he’ll go ahead and give it a shot.
It’s just what our Mr. Bigs do.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook is mucking with its “privacy” (c’est rire) policy once again in its continuing effort to parade you naked through the internets.
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 2
And they like it that way.
“We’ve got an economy that serves strictly to benefit the wealthy and not the average working person,” said Sharon Ward, executive director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, who was aghast at the findings.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
For all practical purposes, stasis with slight hints of improvement.
The decrease in filings doesn’t signal a change in job-market conditions because most of it was caused by computer-network conversions in the two states, according to a Labor Department spokesman.
(snip)
Estimates for jobless claims in the Bloomberg survey of 50 economists ranged from 315,000 to 350,000. The four-week moving average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, fell to 321,250 last week, the lowest since October 2007, from 328,750.
I was late checking the news of the jobbed and jobless because I had somewhere to go and something to do.
The Next Next Big Thing 0