November, 2015 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook (and many others) seem to have forgotten that, 4,000 years before ISIS was an acronym, Isis was an Egyptian goddess.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Resolve workplace differences politely.
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The shooting happened about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday at I.P.E.S. Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards said it started when a female employee was working off-site and learned she was being fired. She drove back to the office and got into a fight with another female employee. “It ended up being a pretty large fight with two females and another male,” Edwards said.
During the fight, one of the women grabbed a handgun, returned and started shooting. The woman firing the shots was not the woman who had been fired, police said.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
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The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, climbed to 270,750 from 267,750 the week before. That compares with an average of 263,250 during the comparable employment survey period for October.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits fell by 2,000 to 2.18 million in the week ended Nov. 7.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Need a break?
Send in the Clowns 0
Yet another night at the improv.
Land of the Free, Home of the Ch**kenshit 0
Elsewhere, Werner Herzog’s Bear looks at America’s long history of chickenshit and Bad Tux marvels at the cowardice of right-wing banty roosters.
Video via Raw Story.
Congratulations 0
Kiko’s House is ten years old.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Hawk your wares, politely.
Jones was sitting in the front passenger seat of a SUV at the time.
American Taliban 0
Warning: Language.
Plus Ca Change 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, my school district finally gave in to Brown v. Board of Education, a decision rendered eleven years earlier. (My county had not participated in “massive resistance”; its resistance had been quite passive.)
We “integrated” (this was in 1965) which meant that one very brave black girl (who I am certain was carefully chosen for toughness and resilience) from the black high school joined the white high school’s senior class; no white students moved to the black high school.* The next year, a few more black students joined a few more classes at the white high school.
This was known as “gradual integration.”
Proms and school dances for that and I-don’t-know-how-many subsequent years were then cancelled because one of them and one of us might dance together.
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*Many white students, though, were pulled out of the white high school to attend the new seg academy all-white “private” school.
By the by, whenever I hear anyone complain of “forced busing,” I will remember that I was forced-bused right by the black high school to the white one.
Wake Up, Folks 0
Here’s a bit of good news (we all need some, however trivial):
Follow the link for details.
