2017 archive
DudeBros 0
Well, there is some good news.
Prosecutors had accused Shkreli of repeatedly misleading investors about what he was doing with their money. Mostly, he was blowing it with horrible stock picks, forcing him to cook up a scheme to recover millions in losses, they said.
Much more at the link. The story does not mention a sentencing date.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yippee-ki-yi-yay! Be polite to bovines!
On Wednesday, the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office announced another six cattle on two separate properties were shot and killed.
Investigators were called to the scene on Aug. 1 in the 600 block of Angel Ranch Road, police said.
The cows were found dead at the scene from gunshot wounds, read an Eddy County Sheriff’s Office news release.
The Bickersons Go Electronic 0
El Reg reports:
The case, just kicked off in an Illinois district court after six years of wrangling, pits Barry Epstein against his former spouse of 46 years, Paula Epstein, who filed for divorce in 2011. During their separation, Paula obtained, read and used his emails as leverage to get a favorable settlement, it is claimed.
Frankly, I don’t see how the “wiretapping” allegations can hold water between a married couple, even if they were in the midst of a divorce, but I do find it disturbing if, as clained, she shared communications between her husband and his lawyer with her own lawyer. I find even more disturbing that her lawyer didn’t tell her to stop.
Then, again, she may have done none of these things. It may just be the husband flailing about. Lots of flailing goes on during bitter divorces.
More at the link. Learn about and listen to the Bickersons. (Audio is in RealPlayer format.)
In His Salad Daze 0
He wanted more cucumbers, so he got nuts.
Details at the link.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Jim Wright examines the delusions of Republicans and their apologists who keep hoping that Donald Trump will act like anyone else but Donald Trump. An excerpt:
All the warning signs were there, the sexist behavior, the tempter tantrums, the bruises and the black eyes, but they thought, you know, once we’re married he’ll come around, he’ll be okay, he’ll stop acting like this.
But Donald Trump is the very same guy today that he was yesterday, that he was two years ago, that he was a decade ago.
Donald Trump is the same horrible person he’s been his entire life.
He’s an obnoxious, ignorant, abusive blowhard enabled by wealth and privilege and if you think for one minute the power of the presidency is going to do anything but exacerbate that, then you are a goddamned fool.
Or a Republican.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Bree Newsome makes a convincing argument that, even though they lost the war, the Secesh won the peace.
Civic Duty, Part Two 1
This is what happened during voir dire, that phase of jury duty during which the jury pool is narrowed down to the jury. I may not have the sequence exactly correct, but, if I have a few questions out of sequence, it will not impeach my larger goal, which is to dispel the Bull* (with apologies to Michael Weatherly), that television and movies promulgate.
How Stuff Works, Fake News Dept. (Updated) 0
Dick Polman dissects the production of a bit truly fake news, that is, news that is made up out of whole cloth to achieve a political end, or, in this case, made up from Fox fur (as opposed to the more common “fake news = news I don’t like”). A snippet:
Addendum, Just a Bit Later:
Shaun Mullin has more. A nugget:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Fly the politely.
Officials said the gun was found in Kyle Maguire’s luggage at 6 a.m. Wednesday at a security checkpoint inside Terminal A.
The polite one has several conceal-carry licenses, but none or valid in Massachusetts or aboard airliners.
(Link fixed. That’s two missing links in two days. I wonder what’s next–maybe Piltdown man.)
Always Wrong 0
Google seems to think it is competent to decide which of the Gmail emails I receive are “important.”
Experience indicates otherwise.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom recalls being told outright by a broadcasting exec, “We don’t carry liberals.”