Yeah, I know.  It’s amazing that there was once a time when there was actually more than one spreadsheet program to be found in productive environments.

Now, Excel is so dug-in to that market that even law offices, which could easily use Quattro Pro for spreadsheets because it’s part of the Corel Office bundle, which most have because Word Perfect rather than MS Word is the standard for legal document compilation, use Excel for spreadsheets.

I mentioned him one other time before in this medium.

I thought web browsers on treadmills were bad.  Now, rifles are Wi-Fi enabled and Linux-powered.

Can someone explain me how a gun would benefit from having connectivity to Ye Olde Internets?

H/T John Lott.

New Orleans Mother’s Day Parade violence (guess who) has locals worried about Annie Malone this weekend.

With good reason.

Mahogany Mob?

Prediction:

By the time it’s all over, and all the documents have bubbled up to the surface and everyone that has something to say winds up talking, we’re going to find out that IRSgate was a bipartisan scandal.  What I mean by that is that both Democrats/Obama and the RINO/Stupid Party Establishment wanted to use the IRS to put the screws on the TPM, because both dislike it, and both had an incentive in 2012 to keep it from being too active; the RINOs didn’t want them to interfere with their coronation of Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee earlier in the year, and Obama wanted to be re-elected later in the year.

That the IRS director during the heart of the IRSgate timeline was a Bush holdover is not an irrelevant fact here, IMHO.

And I bet Karl Roverrated is involved somehow.

Why is IRSgate gaining a lot of traction with a lot of people?

Experiment:

Say “Fast and Furious,” low information undertow says, “Oh, that movie about drag racing.”

Say “Benghazi,” low information undertow says, “Who is Ben Ghazi?”

Say “IRS abuse,” low information undertow says, “You know, I file tax returns every April.”  Light bulbs come on.

It’s like George Wallace once said about picking your campaign issues:  “You’ve gotta put the crumbs down to where the ducks can get to them.”

This is not horseplay:

Shown were two teenagers, 16 and 17, being beaten, then humiliated. The young men were tied to chairs with duct tape then thrown down the stairs. They were burned with cigarettes. They were forced to strip naked and shower together, and told to wash each other’s backs and kiss each other. Then they were made to stand outside in little girls’ underwear. All of which went on Facebook, authorities said.

What it really is is Bellcurvii acting particularly Bellcurvey.

And more than that, as one can tell by following this back to an earlier article, is a row over enmity toward LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH.  They should pay more attention to their President:  This is their Era.

And the St. Louis County Police Department was getting better, too.  Until now.

Why fire him, when he was merely performing a valuable public service?  That being trying to prevent South County’s major shopping and entertainment venues from becoming too vibrant.

Here’s what got him in “trouble.”

It’s been some time, but he held down 2-4 on KMOX after Rush about ten years ago.  During that time, he had on as a guest for one show Jared Taylor.

UPDATE 5/17

And what a coincidence.

Look at what he is suspected of doing.

So of course they take him to jail, where he’ll be happier than a hog in slop.

Since he was, among other things, a trainer for the football team, you can commence all the “tight end” jokes below.

Old Slave Road, a residential drive in Wildwood north of Babler State Park, which connects only to Wild Horse Creek Road, will keep its name in spite of threats from the thought police.

If Wildwood does eventually change the name, I recommend Bell Curve Boulevard.

Personally, I blame the whole row on Nelly.

Number of votes Obama got for President in November 2008:  69 million

Number of votes Obama got for President in November 2012:  65 million

Number of people that listen to Rush Limbaugh on a weekly basis:  20 million

So, obviously…

And you wonder why he sicks the IRS on everyone.

Dear Chicago,

You’re Welcome.

Signed,

A St. Louisan.

P.S. This is what happens when undocumented dumbasses cross over from a more comprehensive state to a less comprehensive state.  The river is wide, both literally in its current over-flood-stage state and figuratively.

AP:

Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

This means that Obama doesn’t even trust his own base (the media), much less us.

Good advice.

Here’s another reason — Defend what?  People who are clearly on our side but will keep on voting for known traitors anyway because of…YAY RED TEAM?  And other extemporaneous old news whiskey-under-the-bridge bullshit?

I’ve been predicting this for a long time.

I didn’t want to nail it.

Steve Sailer nailed this prediction.

Revisit the 19th Amendment, anyone?

Oh yeah, I’m gonna hear about that.  I just made misogynistic policy recommendations based on Twitter banter.

Hispanics do something bad, media tremble in fear of an anti-Hispanic backlash.

Muslims do something bad, media tremble in fear of an anti-Muslim backlash.

Government does something bad…you got it.

First, Sen. Run-Around Sue Collins (RINO-ME) is wringing her hands worried that IRSgate will “fuel distrust in government.”  One can only hope, except hoping is so 2008.

Second, and locally, the P-D is worried that opposition to Commune Core is “rooted in suspicion of the Federal government.”  Meaning that CC critics have sinned in the eyes of the Post-Dispatch.  Actually, many public school teachers, who are employed and paid by a public entity, oppose Commune Core.  And it’s not just because it’s the latest π-in-the-sky educational theory, like Outhouse-Based Education, No Chillenz Left Behind or Race to the Bottom, but because Commune Core really hard-wires tying teacher tenure and pay to the performance of their (in some cases, “dumb as hell” black) students.  If you think cheating-test scandals are bad now, just wait until Commune Core is fully implemented.

Five, six, seven, eight…

RCP:

Obama, Democrats Misfire on Guns

(snip)

BELLE VERNON, Pa. — The owner of a small gun shop here sits on a wooden stool behind a glass-topped counter filled with handguns. The only thing folks talk about when they come into this store is what Washington will do next to attack gun owners, says the man, dressed in a crisp white shirt, dark blue pants and a ballcap from a local paint store.

“The story that is not being told is how afraid folks really are,” he says, refusing to have his name published. He has lived through the turbulent ’60s and ’70s and served in Vietnam, he says, but none of that compares to the fear he sees in today’s customers.

“When you have not one, not two, but dozens of women well over 70 come in here to buy a gun, something is going wrong out there,” he says. “It’s not just little old white women — it’s young people, white and black, affluent and struggling, who are worrying about the (government’s) overreach and the need to protect themselves.”

As if on cue, a middle-aged black man walks in and is greeted with a hearty handshake. The man says he came in to pick up a gun he ordered the week before.

The 65-year-old shopkeeper says everyone who walks through his door is concerned that the latest push for stricter gun laws will return to the congressional agenda, perhaps within weeks, despite his belief that Americans do not support the legislation as much as the Obama administration claims they do.

Allow me to translate.  While it’s politically incorrect to fear government, (and doing so gets you audited), it’s even more politically incorrect for these people to say what they really fear, and that is, racial upheaval.

“He has lived through the ’60s and ’70s and served in Vietnam…” — That’s code for race riots.

Yeah, it’s all a big mysterious caper, unless it isn’t.

What?  Expensive electronics.

Who?  Ooks.

Where?  “Nati” Rent-to-Own, apparently.

Next case.

Some of it went to buy pressure cookers.

I initially entertained the theory that the quickly-deported Saudi student might have had something to do with the Boston Massacre in terms of funding.  But it turns out none of his or their help was needed:  the Tsarnaev Brothers got enough money to do what they did from a combination of the older brother’s wife working her fingers to the bone so both her husband and brother-in-law could lout around, and of course from Yankee taxpayers — You know how that goes:

Aren’t you glad Louisiana recently prohibited guns on parade routes?