June, 2015 archive
Fever! 0
At about 3:30 p. m. this afternoon on the railing of the balcony on the north side of the unit . . .
TOS 0
Alex Hern reads the fine print. A nugget:
Buried in the terms and conditions of the free network was a “Herod clause”: in exchange for the WiFi, “the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity”.
Six people signed up.
“The Smart One” 0
Headline of the day:
. . . which leads one to the question, “How can one regain what one has never had?”
Inquiring minds want to know.
North Carolina Protects the Inalienable Right To Be Cruel 0
I don’t understand the high value that the right wing places on mean for the sake of mean.
The Privatization Scam Charters a Course for Disaster 0
Freeda Cathcart explains the scam. Here’s a bit:
Your tax dollars are responsible for paying for this unfortunate circumstance. Jason Turesky and Charles Chieppo of the Pioneer Institute describe our nation’s testing program as a $16 billion federal mandate. Most of those public funds are going to for-profit corporations not subject to transparency or accountability.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
To be safe, always check to see if the gun is loaded.
Police say Cooper had been drinking beer. At one point during the gathering, he retrieved a handgun.
Cooper’s friends told investigators that after he removed the magazine from the gun, he asked if there was still a round in the chamber.
Cooper then raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, discharging a round.
Guns + beer + stupid = politeness.
QOTD 0
Harriet Martineau, via QOTD.org:
Influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.
Collateral Damage 0
Chew ’em up, spit ’em out.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Gene Nichol tells one voter’s story of how disenfranchisement plays. A snippet:
After doing more research, she learned she would need copy of her birth certificate. That was something of a problem. Ms. Robare is adopted and, in New York, her records were sealed. So she was told she would have to apply to Albany for a new one. But she was dogged, learned where to make the request, and paid the special fee and delivery costs. The bill came to $72.
Follow the link to see what happens next.
On Passing 0
I have energetically ignored stories about Rachel Dolezal and the Spokane NCAAP chapter. All I could see was a cascading calvacade of stupid, and I wanted not to be in its path.
Writing in The Guardian, Steven Thrasher thinks there may be nevertheless be a lesson in the lunacy, and not the lesson you might expect. Here’s a bit:
A Grift of Higher Education 0
In the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Saul Newton dissects Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s war against learning. A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Always be polite at the wedding reception.
A guest at the reception had a gun in his pocket that went off, a police source said. Manhattan Chief of Detectives William Aubry said the incident happened about 7:30 p.m., half an hour after the reception began on the first floor of the famed hotel.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
The stupid. It burns.