Thursday, January 31, 2013
Family Matters
Ruh-roh.
The son-in-law of Gov. Corbett, a narcotics officer with the Philadelphia Police Department, is under investigation by the FBI and was removed from the street today, sources said.
Nice Things
I have asked this before without getting a satisfactory answer. Defense corporations aren't going away but why can't we pay them to build nice things.
Even Suckier Than Expected
Managed to walk out of the house without my power cord, so blogging will be limited by that, too.
Old Wine
When the history of the Left Blogosphere is eventually written, let it be remembered that World O'Crap was and remains pretty frickin' funny and influential.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Big John
I certainly had my problems with the Kerry Presidential Campaign Corporation, and obviously one cannot separate the man entirely from that, but I've long been puzzled by the "Kerry was awful candidate" narrative. He almost won, long before America learned to hate George Bush, and he's been a better person than most of us.
Wednesday Crass Commercialism
Kick-Ass is actually one of my favorite movies of the past few years. Certainly my favorite movie with an ultra-violent 11-year-old girl. Should have been called Hit-Girl.
Never read the original comic. Kick-Ass 2 out this summer!
....and at only 10 bucks, I bought it!
Never read the original comic. Kick-Ass 2 out this summer!
....and at only 10 bucks, I bought it!
Green Shoots
I certainly hope today's GDP number is just an oddity. But even if it isn't horrible scary news, it certainly isn't good news.
Elites have just been assuming the economy would turn itself around. At some point. Somehow.
It's 2013. In January 2009 the administration projected that by now the unemployment rate would be at 5.5%. That's without any stimulus.
The point isn't that they got that wrong, the point is that the unemployment rate is still at a level which should cause politicians to panic. No one is panicking.
Austerity forever!
Elites have just been assuming the economy would turn itself around. At some point. Somehow.
It's 2013. In January 2009 the administration projected that by now the unemployment rate would be at 5.5%. That's without any stimulus.
The point isn't that they got that wrong, the point is that the unemployment rate is still at a level which should cause politicians to panic. No one is panicking.
Austerity forever!
Pedestrians Behaving Badly
I actually do think that there's a lot of bad pedestrian behavior in the urban hellhole. I don't think there's anything wrong with jaywalking across an empty street*, but my personal rule is that I shouldn't ever cross a street if the driver of a car traveling at an appropriate speed should even have to think about whether they'll need to slow down. In other words, I shouldn't do anything to disrupt the normal flow of traffic.
*Do not try this in Los Angeles.
*Do not try this in Los Angeles.
Fear Everything
I do not understand the weird fear about the consequences of leaving kids in locked cars for a couple of minutes. Obviously it depends on your kid, and one shouldn't do idiotic things like leave them in locked cars on hot summer days, but what exactly is the danger?
Progress
I get that it's probably impossible to run a very old subway system 24/7, but it's still been a mystery to me why so many places resist running just slightly longer hours on weekends.
Londoners will be able to party for longer at weekends after the boss of the Tube today revealed plans to run extended services until 2am from 2015.
Gomer
Good for him.
HONOLULU - Jim Nabors, the actor best known for playing Gomer Pyle on TV in the 1960s, has married his longtime male partner.
Hawaii News Now ( http://bit.ly/14tFM3U) reports Nabors, 82, and Stan Cadwallader, 64, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15. Gay marriage became legal in Washington state last month.
The Internet Is Made Of Porn
And Apple provides the biggest porn app, otherwise known as "the browser," for free on every iPhone.
It's fine if they don't want to distribute apps that are obviously dedicated to porn. But I generally find the censorship of internet applications that are really just vehicles for user generated material dumb. Here's a secret: I can send naughty pics through that other scandalous application known as "email" too.
It's fine if they don't want to distribute apps that are obviously dedicated to porn. But I generally find the censorship of internet applications that are really just vehicles for user generated material dumb. Here's a secret: I can send naughty pics through that other scandalous application known as "email" too.
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