(1) Confirmed: LeBron is leaving Northeast Ohio.
(2) Germans?????
(3) UMass-Lowell gave honorary degrees yesterday to, among others, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and noted plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin, and her husband Richard. The first person to spot the irony of that gets a gold star.
(4) Yet another oil company is pulling out of St. Louis. I’m just old enough to remember when St. Louis also had Sunoco, Texaco, Vickers, Clark and a lot of others. Hell, it wasn’t until a roadtrip back east in 1999, where I saw modern functioning Sunocos, that I realized that Sunoco was still in business; they pulled out of St. Louis a long time ago.
(5) Not as bad as Richard Blumenthal, but Mark Jerk slightly misidentified the military award he received while he was in the Naval Reserve.
(6) I agree with Dolan — While having two-officer cars doesn’t guarantee the safety of either, I do think that the increasing reliance of single-officer patrols in the SLPD makes it riskier for those that patrol alone. It’s easier for the typical North St. Louis worthy to try to mow down a cop when he or she is all alone, because it gives him more time to flee the scene and hide, especially if the perp is himself all alone.
(7) A growing number of larger American firms have in their employee codes of conduct that one should not ask about the salary or compensation of one’s co-workers. Research now shows why such rules are a good idea.
(8) Rush referenced this two-year old story late last week. I tell you, Bill Clinton seems to be obsessed with people engaging in sucking motions on his anatomy that lies somewhere between his waist and thighs.
(9) Idiomatic infiltration is a two-way ocean: I find myself using the stereotypically Brit words “shagged” (mainly because of Austin Powers) and “row” (rhymes with “cow,” meaning controversy or quarrel) more and more.
(10) Sam Francis called it “abjuring the realm.”
(11) Kamala Harris, who hearts illegal alien predatory thugs, hates parents whose children skip school too often for her tastes.
If ending truancy is such a whiz-bang cure-all to violent crime, then we shouldn’t just stop and threating to send parents of habitual truants to jail — We should use every resource of every government on every level, from the newest rural county Sheriff’s Deputy all the way up to U.S. Marine Generals, and have them forcably transport children from their domiciles into school buildings, and make sure they stay there. Crime will end in twenty years — Don’t you feel it, too?
(12) Evidently, Rand Paul used the dreaded and politically incorrect D-word in telling the Russian media he wants to end birthright citizenship in the United States, i.e. engage in a proper reading of the construction of the 14th Amendment. Unfortunately, he uses it not in terms of race, but in terms of political party preference. But that’s okay — The average white person won’t pick up on that — They’ll only understand that Rand Paul (accidentally, as it is) wants to stop the de-whitening of America.
And a few headlines.
MSNBC: Today’s college kids lack empathy – Compared to 30 years ago, it’s all about me now, study finds
What the hell? They were taught nothing but self-esteem for thirteen years, and now we’re surprised that they’re self-obsessed once they leave high school.
UK Daily Mail: Malawi president reluctantly pardons gay couple jailed for 14 years after meeting with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon
You punished homosexual men by sending them to jail.
Power Line: Is Obama the New Cheney?
Sure, because your eighth cousin is always the standard of comparison.
