Man, it isn’t easy. Nobody ever wrote a playbook for this. Let’s say you’re a clean-cut businessman (photo) who wants to run for governor in a staid and slightly blue-leaning state (e.g. Virginia) on traditional pro-business issues. This both gives you an advantage and puts you at [...]
Archive for August, 2021
August 28th, 2021 - 9:02 pm § in Environment, Science
How to beat gender discrimination
Female hummingbirds, like females everywhere, have to put up with a lot of crap. But some of them have figured out a way around it. Don’t want to be harassed at meal time, or chased, plucked, and body-slammed? Then retain your blue feathers so the boys will think you’re one of them. Read[...]
He died for freedom
Not in Kabul. In Texas, a far deadlier place for Americans than Afghanistan ever was, or ever will be. According to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid Tracker data base (here), Covid-19 has infected over 3.5 million Texans, and killed 56,577 of them. That’s approaching, and likely will soo[...]
August 28th, 2021 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
Customer service in Texas
Two middle-aged black guys took a defective TV set one of them purchased earlier that day to the customer service counter at a Texas WalMart. The white guys behind the counter spent an hour examining their receipt. Then the white cops arrived. They were handcuffed, body-searched, etc., and after bei[...]
August 28th, 2021 - 12:01 pm § in Misc.
PHOTO: Horse sees his girlfriend
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August 28th, 2021 - 11:42 am § in Law and Courts
Ohio prison horror story
A middle-aged black inmate is dead, and 10 correctional employees have lost their jobs. Criminal prosecutions may follow. What happened to 55-year-old Michael McDaniel sounds like something out of a medieval torture chamber. Although McDaniel died from cardiac arrest, the coroner ruled his death a h[...]
August 28th, 2021 - 10:58 am § in Misc.
Covid-19 headlines for Friday, 8/27/21
TEACHER WHO VIOLATED SCHOOL MASK POLICY INFECTED OVER HALF THE CLASS Read story here * * * LAW PROFESSOR SAYS MAKE UNVACCINATED PEOPLE PAY FOR THEIR HOSPITAL COSTS Read opinion here * * * FEDERAL JUDGE RULES AGAINST FLORIDA GOVERNOR ON SCHOOL MASK MANDATES Read story here * [...]
August 27th, 2021 - 8:27 pm § in Misc.
Loose lips sink military careers
A career Marine officer says he’ll leave the service after being relieved from duty for posting a viral video on social media that blasted the secretary of defense and the Pentagon’s top general for mishandling the Afghanistan withdrawal and letting down the troops. He said in the video [...]
August 27th, 2021 - 9:24 am § in Law and Courts
California board approves parole for RFK’s assassin
California’s parole board has approved paroled for Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, CNN reported on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 (read story here). The decision isn’t final; the governor could still block his release. Originally sentenced to death, he has spent 5[...]
How to remove a bandaid
Let’s say you finally hoisted yourself off your butt and got a Covid shot, and don’t want your Republican friends to know, but that bandaid on your upper arm is a dead-giveaway. Or perhaps one of life’s other little disasters overtook you (or a whole bunch of them, see photo below;[...]