Too Venal for Words category archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Methinks Parmy Olson is unduly optimistic.
Plus, she provides yet more evidence that “social” media isn’t.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Aside:
The first rule of flight club is don’t tell anyone about flight club.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and you, too, can go viral.
Hotel California Redux 0
Instead of not letting you leave, this one follows you around: David Curran tells of taking his family to a vacation rental only to discover afterwards that the landlord had left surveillance cameras in place.
(At the end of the article, he offers some hints as to how to protect yourself against intrusive landlords.)
Republican Family Values, Maskless Marauders Dept. 0
I know that I am not the only one to notice the irony in the “Right-to-Life” party’s willingness to court infection and death, for school children no less, during a time of pandemic.
Scott Maxwell has more.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He politely “stood his ground” by shooting a woman who was running away in the back.
Women Athletes Eye Candy.
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At the Inky, Lisa Scottoline takes a scathing look at the European Handball Federation’s punishing the Norwegian women’s handball team for wanting to wear, God help me, shorts instead of bikini bottoms. Her conclusion:
“The Happiest Place on Earth” 0
No, argues Leonard Pitts, Jr., it’s no place Disney. Here’s the subhead:
If ignorance really were bliss, Tennessee would be the happiest place on Earth.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Karen Karen-Like 0
A Karen phones it in.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Honest to Pete, you’d think he was old enough to know better.
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0
Maskless Marauders have their day in court.
An Annotated Guide to Gutless Groveling 0
Michelle Cottle reads between the lines.
A Picture Is Worth, Just Deserts Dept. 0
Aside:
I’m really tired of calls telling me that warranty on my 2003 vehicle will soon expire . . . .
(Actually, I’m starting to fear the vehicle’s about to expire, but, as my old mechanic in New Jersey used to say, it doesn’t owe me a dime.)
