* While Beckapalooza wasn’t much to write home about, Sharpton’s “counter-rally” was nothing more than pure astroturf.
* Oh joy. If the same low-IQ students have near perfect attendance, and their low-IQ parents attend PTO conferences regularly, to meet their low-IQ Harris-Stowe “graduate” teachers who are teaching their low-IQ children, the parents will get some straight cash homey.
Thankfully, it’s not your straight cash, homey. At least I hope it’s not. Then again, I’ll write this today, and tomorrow I’ll find out this foundation is awash in Federal or state grant money. Then I’ll look like an ass.
* CST has this profile about the former tech entrepreneur turned CPD officer after 9/11 who is spearheading the CPD’s Racial Profiling By Any Other Name effort. In it, we find out that he was amazed that cops do push-ups, are interested in firearms and ammunition, and engage in foot chases of criminal suspects.
What this means is that Mr. Goldstein was Captain Oblivious before and is Captain Obvious now.
* Strange Maps has its first new post in a very long time. It’s about French settlements on the North American continent whose real estate parcels were thin and long, especially in the river bottoms. This was the way it was near (what would become) St. Louis, too, but I’m surprised none of the people who have left comments have come up with the real reason: It had to do with Indians. They had the bad habit of attacking white settlers, and if you had big farm fields in two dimensions, you were pretty much all by yourself up against an army of attacking Indians. The French deliberately put farmers on thin strips so that men working in the field would almost always be close to other men working their fields, due to the narrow dimension of length. So that means when the Indians popped up over the horizon, there was enough time for the settlers to gather together to defend the house, as the Under Armour commercials would say.
* More like Aisle WIN. I need a few more of those picnics, to be quite honest.
I understand why the batteries are there, in order to power those “toys.” I also understand the Excedrin — That’s there for the S&M freaks.
* Sorry, Tiki. There’s no PR-ing yourself out of this one.
AFAIC, justice came when the Giants won the Super Bowl the season after you retired. Ultimate slap in the face.
* Carl Paladino, the candidate for NYS-GOV-R who wants to repurpose abandoned state prisons to become life skills centers for welfare recipients, has probably chimed in with the best explanation thus far about the controversy over Obama’s religious faith. I’ll let you read it for yourself, but I’ll give you a hint before hand: Black velvet in that slow Southern style. A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees…
