2013 archive
Susie Sampson’s Sister Surpasses Silliness 0
Succeeding the silliness (surpassingly silly sillyness), she sounds serious for a short-lived second. Owm!
Reach out and Touch Someone 0
Vultures.
Not Even a Nugget of Truth . . . 0
. . . in that nugget:
Scientists have performed an “autopsy” on nuggets from two unnamed fast-food chains.
The findings aren’t pretty: 40 to 50 percent of the nuggets were meat, and the rest was fat, skin, connective tissue, blood vessels, nerves and bone fragments, according to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
And this surprise you how?
Dogged Dogmaticism 0
Eugene Robinson:
God bless Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., for at least being honest. “We’re not going to be disrespected,” he told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Read the rest.
Image via BartCop.
Journey to Smallville 2
Let Sam and Pap be your guides:
Waiting Game (Updated, Kicked to the Top) 2
We shall see whether my local rag prints my letter, written in response to this.
Addendum:
Published, almost as written.
High Sticking It to the Man 0
This should be fun to watch.
(snip)
In court last week, Laviolette claimed Bank of America convinced him to mortgage his properties and invest the proceeds in high-risk funds that “utterly collapsed,” Courthouse News (CN) reported.
(snip)
The Laviolettes, CN reported, said they later learned that the high-return investment projections relied on “artificially inflated values for their properties and an unreasonable rate of return.”
I am not a big hockey fan. The NHL is near the top of my “I-don’t-care” list (as opposed to big-time college and pro football, which are at the top of my “the-corruption-has-sickened-me” list).
I admit that watching a hockey game in person is a lot of fun. Back in my younger, pre-kids days, my then-wife and I would take in the occasional Caps game, which I could enjoy thanks to WMAL-AM host Ken Beatrice, the only person I ever listened to who explain hockey in terms I understood. In TV viewer land, though, hockey is just too fast to fit in a television screen.
Nevertheless, I might just start to root for the Flyers because of this.
Jon Stewart Skins a Fox 0
Excerpt:
“You hate the government, yet you wail like banshees whenever the . . . services you like are taken away.”
Via Raw Story.
More Complicated Than One Would Think 0
In case you wondered what a hospital bed looks like undressed without any bed clothes (TWUUG meets at a local hospital).
Frankly, that’s about the closest I want to get to one.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
I also find Jehovah’s Witness missionaries annoying (hint: tell them you’re Catholic).
I have also found them to be unfailingly polite and courteous. This fellow decided to return that politeness in kind.
As the Good Book says, “Do unto others,” and he did.
Susie Sampson’s Sister Soldiers on 4
She needs the shutdown to stop. She’s starting to get silly.
Leave It to the Professionals 0
Headline:
Woman accused of creating fake law firm to bilk Lutheran Social Services
Real law firms resent the competiti–oh, never mind.
The Entitlement Society 0
And persons who have been laid off from jobs that pay less than $172,000 a year don’t?
“I need my paycheck. That’s the bottom line,” Ellmers told WTVD in Raleigh, N.C.
On the railroad we had a term for persons who wanted to be paid for not doing their jobs.
“Slugs and loads.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More guns would no doubt have prevented this.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
After all, wondering when the end will come adds the spice of adventure to day-to-day living.
(snip)
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health found high levels of barium, benzene, chlorides, strontium, and other contaminants at the end of the outflow pipe in excess of state and federal water-quality standards.
QOTD 0
Dean Acheson:
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Timely, eh, what?