“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your fellow employees.
A 34-year-old man was shot twice in the back as he ran away, according to police.
Other employees jumped on the gunman and one man was fatally shot during the scuffle.
“After the initial person got shot, the other employees ran over and were trying to wrestle the gun from the shooter,” Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle. “The gun then went off and shot the business owner.”
Captions Outrageous 2
Last night, we watched an old episode of Perry Mason. (I guess all Perry Mason episodes are old at this point. At least there are no SWAT teams running around like Star Wars storm troopers . . . .)
In one bit of dialog, the word “tycoon’s” appeared.
The closed captions displayed it as “TYXXXX’S.”
Aside:
One of the characters was named “Eula.” Why a character would be named “End User License Agreement” is beyond me.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Maine’s Secretary of State, a Democrat who was on Donald Trump’s farcical Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, but who had to file suit to find out what it was doing, reports on his experience.
No summary or excerpt can do his story justice. Just follow the link.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
When fellowship is needed, join us . . . .
When: Thursday, January 11, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling basketball in Cincinnati.
Some of the players identified themselves with phony names such as “Knee Grow” and “Coon,” which opponents believed were intended as racial slurs.
Neglecting Negligence 0
Warning: Language.
QOTD 0
Ann Landers:
>Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Snow Daze 0
I once had a training class with out-of-town trainees staying in a nearby hotel; one of them told me this story at lunch.
It had snowed heavily over night, though nothing like what we got last week, maybe five or six inches, so the highway department had been able to keep the roads passable. This trainee was deputized to drive the carpool of the rest of the visitors from the hotel to the training site, since, being from Chicago, he “would know how to drive in the snow.”
He’s driving carefully along when one of his passengers asks, “Why are you going so slow?”
He replied, trying not to let his exasperation show, “Because that’s how you drive in the snow.”
The Hardcore 0
Josh Marshall explains.
Merger and Monopoly 0
One of the most pernicious acts of Ronald Reagan was to suspend enforcement of anti-trust laws, leading the corporate consolidation we see around us, delivering the polity into the hands of our own homegrown oligarchs.
Thom and his guest discuss how monopolies work.
Afterthought:
It’s ironic that Republicans simultaneously extol vociferously the virtues of competition while actively supporting–and are supported by–those who would eliminate it.
Sound like Anyone You Know? 0
Melissa Burkley offers simple guidelines for spotting a psychopath.