July, 2015 archive
The Big Freud 0
Donald Trump is the Republican id writ large.
The Confederate Party . . . 0
. . . struggles to retain its flag.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has finished devouring the “Party of Lincoln.”
Reince Cycle 0
Reince Priebus tries to clear Trumps.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
This Is Your School Administration’s Brain on Drugs 0
A judge has ruled that a kid’s suit for having been suspended for having not-pot can continue.
I’m old and out of touch.
I can’t say that I liked my schools’ admininistrators, though the high school principle was sort of okay in an old-fogey kind of way (after all, he was in my parents’ bridge club) and the elementary school principle was really cool and could hit a softball for a country mile. Mr. Lawson, the superintendent, wasn’t very likable from a student’s perspective. He was distant, remote, gray (as I am now), and had the people skills of a brick; nevertheless, he wasn’t stupid. Indeed, he guided the school system quite skillfully through the difficult days of desegregation.
When did stupid become a job qualification for being a school administrator?
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still under 300k.
Applications for benefits have been below 300,000 for 18 straight weeks, the longest stretch since 2000 and indicating companies are content to maintain staffing levels.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, increased to 279,500 from 275,000 the week before.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 69,000 to 2.33 million in the week ended June 27.
Bloomberg’s headline clutches pearls about how this is more than forecast (gasp!), as if that is a problem with the economy, when, in fact, it is a problem with Bloomberg’s “forecasters,” who, if they were meteorologists at your local AM-talker, would have been moved to reading traffic reports a long, long time ago.
