Here’s an excellent Salon.com article on the most worrisome and least-addressed aspect of the Petraeus affair—the fact that the Feds were able to dig up what they did without evidence of a crime, and without any warrants. Money quote: “Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed…
Category: in the news.
earth….quake?
So we had an earthquake here in New England on Tuesday night. How about that? I was hooking up the water line to our new fridge when the place started shaking. It felt like a washing machine severely out of balance, and that’s exactly what I thought it was at first…until Robin said that there…
capitalism is bad, except when it’s *my* profit.
There’s a new party in Germany. They call themselves the “Pirate Party”, and they’re a loose conglomerate of people well left of the already pretty left-of-center mainstream Social Democrats: anti-Capitalism, anti-establishment, anti-soap-and-deodorant, the usual coffee house anarchists. One of the platforms of the Pirate Party is that “information should be free.” They advocate unrestricted Internet…
I’m no dummy. I went to collige.
Whenever a college fraternity or sorority makes the news, it’s usually not for any great feat of intellect. This one is no different: Sorority vandalizes wrong car in response to hazing complaint. The Greek D is “Delta”. Too bad the Greek alphabet doesn’t have a U or H.
how u spel deficet?
So the Chicago Public Day Care System’s wardens—who, on average, earn $76,000 a year—are striking because the 16% pay increase over four years offered by the city just won’t cut it. Meanwhile, the Chicago school system has a dropout rate that’s close to 50%. But if you question the right of public sector union workers…
how to react to an armed robbery attempt, textbook solution.
Here’s a video of an attempted armed robbery at an Internet cafe in Florida. Three guys rush in, guns in their hands…and the security guard, seated behind a desk, gets up, draws his gun, and starts firing not three seconds after the bad guys open that front door. http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/31/pkg-security-guard-shoots-thieves-internet-cafe.weshpkg-security-guard-shoots-thieves-internet-cafe.wesh This was in the wee hours…
crayola davinci.
Oh, this gave me a much-needed laugh today: Amateur botches Spanish fresco restoration The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic, [the BBC correspondent] says.
disgusted.
Over the past few days, the Internet has educated me that the Aurora massacre was really perpetrated by: President Obama, to be able to push tighter gun control The CIA, to eliminate the service members who were killed (the other audience members being “collateral alibi damage”) The Jews, because, hey, Zionist World Conspiracy The Tea…
pointless savagery.
When you’re young and in your physical prime, and the guy you punch is not, hands can become a lethal weapon, and you can find yourself facing first-degree murder charges. Now imagine what would have happened if the old man had carried a handgun and shot his attacker in self-defense. How would the media have…
you didn’t build that.
So the President gave a speech in which he used a modified form of Elizabeth Warren’s claims that “nobody builds a business alone”: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have…