November, 2013 archive
47 Shopping Days until Christmas 0
Early Christmas shopping? Paul Collins explains that the backstory is not what you might think. A nugget:
The December rush on stores, Kelley explained, brought “a bitter inversion of the order of holiday cheer” for overwhelmed clerks and delivery boys. Early shopping was part of Kelley’s crusades for child labor laws and an eight-hour workday, because the last few weeks before Christmas were exactly when overtime and seasonal child labor were most abused.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
DIY politeness at the Home Depot.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure, fell to 348,250 last week from 357,500 the prior week.
Economists’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 323,000 to 350,000. The prior week’s claims were revised from an initially reported 340,000.
In an almost-unprecedented aberration, Bloomberg’s “experts” got it right.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
If you wonder why the Republican Party is so determined to gut out the vote, just read this.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When it comes to politeness, don’t chicken out.
Investigators said that the victim had attempted to drive around an older brown Buick Regal which appeared to be stalled in the drive-thru line when the suspect got out of the passenger’s side of the car and began cursing.
The Secesh 1
“OilGunnia.”
These are folks who don’t realize that The Quick and the Dead was a movie.
A damned good movie, aside from being about 30 minutes too long, but still a movie.
Renaissance 0
When some are speculating that the Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs, who disappeared in the 1850s, the Whig Party is reborn:
“As neither a Republican nor Democrat, in a city with a reputation for electoral dishonesty, I am an honest broker in administering elections,” Bucholz said Wednesday in an email.
By the way, those who think the Republicans will follow the path of the Whigs are quite wrong.
They have already chosen to follow the path of the Know-Nothings.
QOTD 0
Michel de Montaigne:
Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to persons in distress.
And if you want to know why she deserved such courtesy, note that she was a young Not White woman looking for help in a predominately white neighborhood.
Bag Ladies 2
Gina Barreca marvels at the phenomenon of the purse.
Men? Men carry a credit card and a twenty. If they need it, they buy it. Or they ask us for it.
After all, we’ll have it in our bag.
We carry extra eyeglasses, lip balm, Q-tips, Band-Aids, a half-empty water bottle, four pens (two of which work), 16 crumpled receipts, a tiny notebook, gum, mints, hand sanitizer, perfume sample (empty), tampon, aspirin, non-aspirin pain relievers, Tums, Imodium, matches (we don’t smoke, it’s for friends), a “fun size” Snickers, nail glue, an emery board, a compact 5X mirror (ironic, right?), tweezers, cell phone, Bluetooth, floss, AAA battery (which helps with nothing, ever), and three cute, striped paper clips too adorable to discard.
I’m guessing she’s never looked in a man’s briefcase (or, in the case of hipsters, backpack). I used to have a sewing kit, bandaids, and miscellaneous other sundries in mine, in addition to my lunch.
What wasn’t in there? Briefs.
Cooch Calls It 0
Heh.
Susie Sampson’s Sister’s Strange Santa 0
Santa? Really. It’s not even Veterans’ Day.
National College Asinine Association 0
The NCAA is not only corrupt, willing to sacrifice virtue, fair play, and players to ratings and revenue, it’s also stupid.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source.
I’m on the agenda to talk about my new tablet.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, November 7.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (Janaf Shopping Center). (Map)
Theft of Services 0
Privatization or profiteering?
Facebook Frolics 0
The internet is a pub(l)ic place.
Warning: Language and extreme male idiocy.