2014 archive
The Agony of the Private Jet Set 2
Leonard Pitts, Jr., skewers Tom “Kristallnacht” Perkins.
Just read it. No excerpt or summary can do it justice.
Hot Pockets 0
I cannot understand why persons carry gadgets that cost several hundred bucks in their hip pockets like they were handkerchiefs, yet I see it every day. I would worry that the over-priced doohickey would break; I would not, however, expect this:
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EMS Division Chief Andrew Palmeri said it appears that when the student sat down, with the phone in her back pocket, the phone’s battery “shorted out.” The state fire marshal is investigating, he said.
According to the story, students and teachers responded promptly and competently and the girl was not seriously injured.
Picture of the iJunk at the link.
Delayed Compensation 0
The Regent, still at the public trough:
There’s an old joke that goes,
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Q. How do you go bankrupt?
A. A little bit at a time, then all at once.
I think that’s how The Regent got into his mess: a little bit at a time and then all at once.
The Popcorn Popper 0
Of course.
Tampa attorney Richard Escobar also maintained that Reeves was acting in self-defense in the Jan. 13 shooting.
Because picking a fight and then killing the person you picked it with is just how you roll in the gunshine state.
All snark aside, you must realize that these folks are sociopaths.
Animal Crackers 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
News You Can Snooze 0
Warning: If you are looking for tastefulness, look elsewhere.
Winter Morning 0
Sunrise yesterday.
H/T Susan for the pic.
Dustbiter 0
Another bank bites the dust. Mastering the universe no more is
My father was a banker, back when banks were expected to have integrity.
These days, he would be ashamed to admit his past.
Outsmarting Himself 0
Police track down masked robber by tracking down the mask:
The moral: Don’t use a Lamborghini as a getaway car. There aren’t many of them and they tend to get noticed.
The Entitlement Society 0
The Trump card.
Orderly Executives, Reprise 0
The lies, followed by the truth.
By the Numbers 0
My local rag rounds up some snowy statistics. A nugget (emphasis in the original):
376 million – cubic feet of natural gas delivered to customers between 10 a.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Wednesday by Virginia Natural Gas. That’s a record.
6 – degrees Fahrenheit, Thursday’s record low temperature for that date in history, set at Norfolk International Airport.
Also, they point out, 0 . . . jack-knifed tractor-trailers.
Read the rest.
Republican Rebranding 0
Via BartCop.