Numerous Number Twos

Rush Limbaugh asked today, “This must be the twenty-fifth #2 man in the Taliban that we’ve apprehended since we went into Afghanistan.  Has there ever been another top-heavy organization in this world?”

Yes.  IBM in the 1980s.

UPDATE 2/24: I guess I have to explain this, b/c I’m getting some “Huh?” e-mails about this.

They say that every human being in the world is connected to every other human being by no more than six degrees of separation.  IBM was so bureaucratic in the 1980s, and had such a complex hierarchy of “semi-autonomous middle managers,” as someone else described the situation, that everybody in the United States was separated to someone in IBM between the top and bottom rungs of the latter by no more than two degrees of separation.  That means that everyone either knew someone who was an IBM middle mangler, or knew someone that knew someone that was an IBM middle mangler.  In my case, it was a college roommate of my younger uncle’s wife’s first cousin who was an IBM middle mangler.

Forgive Mitt Romney. He’s an Aspiring President Who Just Got Caught Up With the Wrong Crowd.

WSJ:  Prescriptions for Psychiatric Trouble – The proposed new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders could place large swaths of the population under the umbrella of pathology.

And they’d all have to see psychologists and psychiatrists.  How convenient.

WMAQ-NBC-5 Chicago:  Cook County a “Dark Pool of Political Corruption” – New study provides insight into 141+ years of political hijinks

It took you 141 years to figure out that Crook County is corrupt?  A little slow on the upchuck there, we are.

WBOY-NBC-12 Clarksburg, W.V.:  WVU Rifle Team On Quest For 15th NCAA Title

A West Virginia University team isn’t complete without a Pittsnogle.

UK Telegraph:  Great White Shark vs Tiger

Not happening, neither animal likes the other’s domain.  But I’d pay for Grizzley vs Lion.

Take Two:  UK Telegraph:  Great White Shark vs Tiger

Even Greg Norman has to weigh in.

P-D:  Highway officials say highway where concrete fell is safe

How bad will a highway have to be for MoDOT to call it unsafe?

KSDK:  Poll: Americans like Canada the most, Iran the least

America is somewhere in the middle of the pack.

SBPDL:  Keith Olbermann is the Ultimate Disingenuous White Liberal

I beg to differ.  He’d have to overtake a whole lot of people who work for the Southern Poverty Law Center to win that pennant.

P-D:  Police problems trickle up to Uncle Vince

When you have an Uncle Vince, you know good things are gonna happen for you.

AP:  Rap star says he was one in Romney confrontation

The bad news is that he can’t use the excuse that he was an aspiring rapper who got caught up in the wrong crowd, because he’s a real rapper who got caught up in the wrong plane.

Friday’s Tidbits

(1)  Media playa-hatin on American halfpiper and bronze medalist Scotty Lago having AC/DC on his iCabal portable music device.  After all, a 22-year old liking AC/DC is like an 18-year old liking Patti Page, for sure.

“Gee, blogmeister.  You sound like you’ve got a personal axe to grind.”  Yeah, I do.  AC/DC was at their zenith when I was just a kid.  All this reminds me is that I’m getting old.

(2)  If you’re a British criminal, time your crimes around the shift changes in your local constabulary.

(3)  He Who Buys the Laptop Calls the Tune:  A school-issued laptop with a built-in webcam was allegedly remote-activated and caught one of the school’s students engaging in “inappropriate behavior” in his own house, for which he received a school sanction.  The two burning questions from this issue are:  (1)  Why did the school have the ability to remote-activate the webcam?  (2)  Why did they punish one of their students for something done in the privacy of his own house?  You may think there’s a third burning question, but I can answer that one for you right away:  Masturbation.

Christopher Sieyes Got 10,000 Spoons When All He Needed Was a Knife

Washington State’s Supremes rule that the application of a state felony law of unlawful possession of a firearm against one Christopher Sieyes, 17 at the time of the violation, did not violate the Federal Constitution’s Second Amendment civil liberty of the right to keep and bear arms simply on the basis of being under the age of 18.  Washington State law has provisions to where gun possession among those under 18 is not a crime, but Mr. Sieyes was not eligible for any of them.  On the other hand, they stated in their ruling that the Incorporation Doctrine of the Federal 14th Amendment means that the Federal 2nd applies to Washington State, even though that wasn’t relevant to Mr. Sieyes’s arguments.

Good for most of us, bad for the now convicted felon Mr. Sieyes.

In related news, the WSJ has picked up on the fact that a lot of liberals are rooting for McDonald in the upcoming McDonald v Chicago SCOTUS decision, because this case is more about 14 than 2.

In more related news, Brady only gives Missouri 4 points out of 100 for gun control.  How do did we even get four points?  That’s what I’m locking ass about.

Tiger on a Hot Tin Roof

Yours truly watched parts of Tiger Woods’s Mini-Me Conference today.  He’s another one they’re trying to make look as light-skinned as possible, using a combination of lighting, skin cream and camera manipulation.  (Hint:  If you’re racking your brain trying to figure out who “another one” is, think 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.)

The whole set of affairs breaking on Thanksgiving and encompassing his wife, children and his numerous trysts reminds me of all the phoniess, lying, deceit, two-timing two-faced hypocrisy and lame attempts at image crafting in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.