October, 2013 archive
Bonus Babies 0
Sport columnist extraordinaire Bob Molinaro considers the contract the basketball coach at VCU, which is just up the road a piece. A snippet:
He even gets small incentives based on his players’ graduation rates. Do coaches with graduation clauses in their contracts have to give back money when a player flunks out? That’s probably a silly question.
Big-time college sports (and wannabe big-time college sports factories) have gone of the rails
School for Scamdal 0
Thom and Ari Rabin Havt (full disclosure: he has a new book) discuss the mechanics Republicans used to dream drum up the Benghazi Scamdal:
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
When the rather hysterically-phrased stories broke last week that the latest gut-out-the-vote efforts in Texas might disproportionately affect women (for example) because of differences in documents occasioned by marital name changes, much skepticism was exhibited.
Take this, skeptics:
(snip)
Watts said she has voted in every election for the last 49 years and that her name on her driver’s license has remained the same for the last 52. The address on her license and voter registration card have been the same for more than two decades. However, on Tuesday, at the outset of early voting for the Nov. 5 election, the judge was asked to sign a “voter’s affidavit” saying that she is who she says she is before she would be allowed to vote.
The problem was that her maiden name was listed as her middle name on her driver’s license, whereas on her voter registration card, her actual middle name is listed.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
No surprise here, as teabaggery takes it toll.
(snip)
The partial government shutdown this month trimmed 0.25 percentage point from fourth-quarter economic growth and cost the U.S. 120,000 jobs in October, Jason Furman, head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said at a White House briefing earlier this week.
Economists’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey for jobless claims ranged from 320,000 to 365,000 after the prior week’s previously reported 358,000. Applications surged in prior weeks as California worked through a backlog caused by a switch in computer systems.
The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, increased to 348,250 last week from 337,500. No states were estimated last week.
Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen! 0
Faded glory.
I remember seeing her traversing the Chesapeake when I was a young ‘un.
There’s a picture of her at the link.
QOTD 0
Horace Greeley:
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Afterthought:
By this measure, Wall Street is the heart of darkness.
Cooch and the Cuckoos: Support Slip-Sliding Away 0
Longest serving Virginia Republican in the Virginia General Assembly endorses McAuliffe.
Via The Richmonder.
Facebook Frolics 0
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
Susie Sampson’s Sister’s* Silly Sports 0
The incoherence of some of the answer is astounding.
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*Will the real Susie Sampson please stand up?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“How many more?” indeed.
I got my answer sooner than I expected. Another gun for safety’s sake:
Ringhardt left the handgun on a table and went into another room to take a nap. When she awoke, she found the 5-year-old boy lying in the living room with a gunshot wound.
The child is dead and sitter is in jail.
And in news for the polite, it’s not a good idea to leave your politeness stick in an unlocked garage.
Cooch and the Cuckoos Vex the Polity 0
In this case, it’s one of the cuckoos, Lt. Gov. candidate E. W. “Fire and Brimstone” Jackson, who’s backpedaling.
The evangelical Christian minister from Chesapeake has been on the defensive for declaring in a sermon in Northern Virginia last month that people who don’t follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”
Note that he said it just last week; it’s not something dredged up, as they say, from the deep dark past.
Follow the link for his lame attempts to paint his comments as rational.
I’d like to say more, but I’m rather speechless. I think his conduct speaks quite nicely for itself, though.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Simulated politeness has a price.
How many more?
History Lessons 0
Bill Maxwell has been reading his son’s history assignments and has discovered something about teabaggery: Its willful misreading of history.
A nugget:
More history at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential on the school bus.
