* Yeah, Jim Goad is kidding. But that’s why I take Nostradamus and his “prophecies” with a grain of NaCl — They’re so vague and open-ended that they’re sitting ducks for the Rashomon Effect — Any one person can easily interpret any one of his predictions to suit their perceptions and biases. Any one of his predictions could be construed to predict everything from 9/11 to grandma tripping on her throw rug in 1982.
* There’s a poison pill in here. I know there is.
If anything, Wikileaks and Lulzsec shouldn’t mean that computing becomes more closed, it should mean that government becomes more open.
* Ryan Leaf: Bust, immature, loudmouthed, insubordinate, lazy, no good, waste of money, waste of a high draft pick.
True all ‘dat.
Notice I didn’t include “broke by his mid thirties” in that list. Because I can’t.
* Breakdown of post-McDonald legal handgun registrations in Chicago by zip code. Notice the highest percentages are in the areas where Gery Chico had the most support for Mayor.
* Yeah, I’m mad. Not only at the news, but also because the source, ThinkRegress, can’t seem to make the link between Goldman Sachs and Obama and the Democrat Party in general.
* Brazil is bound and determined to make World Cup 2014 go off without a hitch, in spite of very high black/Indian/mulatto crime in the big cities. How? Two words: Police State.
That’s how South Africa “pulled it off” a year ago.
* North Korea is not a threat, Part II.
* Channeling SBPDL, and filling in the blanks that a certain less than honest mainstream media outlet in St. Louis won’t, this is a natural consequence of BRB (Black Run Belleville).
* Read carefully. The moral of this story? Until your child reaches a certain age, and if he or she is going for a physical exam where he or she will be naked for at least part of the process, a trusted adult of the same gender should be in the exam room and part of the exam process at all times. There’s also another moral to this story, but I’ll leave that to your interpretation.
* MySpace: Shades of Smith & Wesson — Bought it at the height of its reputation for a lot of money, then later selling it for a song after it became passe. However, in the case of S&W, it didn’t become passe, it became a pariah in the 2nd Amendment community because the British conglomerate that owned it didn’t grok the American domestic firearms market, and therefore signed on with the Clinton “gun lawsuit settlement.” MySpace just became passe, more like a digital ghetto.
You see all these smartphones that have “one touch access to Facebook?” Five or six years ago, if they were available, they would have had one touch access to MySpace. Imagine how stupid that would look today.
* DANEgerus vs Bloomberg. AKA “MYOB Mikey.”
* On the other hand, Fairfax County, Virginia does get more of that strengthening and enriching diversity.
* Romney: “I can work with Democrats.”
Open mouth that was born with silver spoon inserted, insert foot.
Why is this fool talking up his ability to work with Democrats, when we’re expecting the GOP nominee to be strong enough and have enough coattails to keep the House in GOP hands and flip the Senate from D to R control? The idea in 2012, Willard, is to make Democrats so few in number in Federal elected offices that you won’t need to work with them or even care about them. I guess this is Romney’s way of admitting that he doesn’t have strong coattails on which to ride.
