- Hey, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals says it’s okay to flip off a cop. Not necessarily smart, but okay. You can tell the nice officer that between taser zaps. (H/T to JW for the good news.)
- And speaking of police: Rapid DNA: a new tool coming soon to a thug near you. (H/T to J for the bad news.)
- Oh, c’mon. Did somebody in Congress really tell off Freedom Feens? Nawwwww. Really? It’s true Congressional staffers have committed some pro-government vandalizing at Wikipedia, so who knows?
- Well, that’s one way to get your stolen cellphone back.
- A French court has just thrown out Hollande’s tax on the rich. Maybe Gerard Depardieu won’t have to become a Russian after all. Hm. But a 13 percent tax rate …
- I’m late getting to this one, but you should really read MamaLiberty’s “There’s an F.B.I. in My Soup”.
- Late on this one, too. (Sigh; last week was busy.) But a big thank you to Jim Bovard for giving such a big plug to Rats!, the anti-snitch book — despite his writerly horror about giving work away for free. He was waiting for me to get the book on Amazon — something I haven’t done yet.
And now here’s a real cat burglar:
Thanks to H for the laugh. And if — once again — WordPress strips out the video embed code at the moment this blog entry goes live, here’s where you can see what WP stole: http://biggeekdad.com/2011/05/cat-burglar/.
WordPress has apparently for a long time had a “feature” (not a bug) that removes videos when you use their WISIWYG blog editing function. I never use that. Their latest upgrade (sic) has expanded that lovely feature to the editing function I do use — which regularly ruins posts that I schedule for later appearance, like this one, which is going live in the middle of the night.
Thank you SO much, Dear People of WordPress, for deciding that I really don’t need to post cute cat videos after all.
The rest of you, don’t worry. I’ve learned to save the video codes. Once a blog has gone live, WordPress does kindly allow me to put it back in. So you won’t suffer a shortage of adorable kitties and cute puppies for long. (I know that’s why you really come here, after all.)
Came across this on a web comic I read… And figured it just HAD to be posted here:
OK… so, no embedded html. Try #2, just pasting in the direct url:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130108.gif
Yeah, that’s good, CCC.
Thanks, Claire. From the response I’ve gotten so far, the “…FBI in my soup” will have to join the ever growing list of things I need to turn into novels.
Why couldn’t I have started this 50 years ago? I’ll have to live to be 200 to have any hope of finishing all of it. 🙂
When I was blogging, .gov visitors and commenters made up a rather significant percentage of the total. Web site still gets a lot of nasa.gov traffic for some strange reason.
Rapid DNA takes all lunch? You mean it isn’t like on “CSI?”
Creative way to get a cell phone back, but I think I’d have done it in a way that didn’t involve giving the guy my home address.
I used to like WordPress. Not sure now, and if I start blogging again, I’ll probably use something else. The vid embed thing is puzzling, as I can’t think of a reason for an editor function to just remove things. However, maybe Oliver (?) can look into a WP vid plugin?
Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and search for video, there’s a ton of ’em.
ML, nice story. Secession might be the only way to escape the left-coastian “Progressive” agenda, without having a complete collapse. But it would be very messy.
Speaking of secession, Kevin, of The Smallest Minority blog, linked to Would States Secede to Protect Their Citizens? Well, I certainly have no hope of that. I’ve read arguments that secession is not allowed, as part of whatever agreement or compact is made when a state joins the Union. Well, pshaw! The whole point of it is that you’re declaring you’re no longer bound by that anyway. I once wrote a pretty decent comment about that, someplace. Well, some nice quotes in that piece anyways.
Modern-day states seceding from the U.S. is exactly as legal as the Revolution.
I.e. “Winners make the rules.”