No, I’m not getting married. I’ve just borrowed this car for a couple of days. It’s old. It’s borrowed. It’s blue. It’s also for sale. I did something on Thursday (no idea what) to stress my ankle. Now I realize I was overly optimistic about strolling to town three or four times a week so soon after breaking it. The car is a 1993 Geo Prizm with 219,000 miles on it. Sounds awful on at least two counts, doesn’t it? Maybe three. Until you realize it’s actually a Toyota Corolla in disguise. Online reviews sing its praises — troublefree! cheap…
Category: Miscellaneous
10 careers with the most psychopaths per capita. One is actually slightly surprising. Apparently artificial intelligence has reached the stage of producing bright but balky adolescents. (H/T PT) Well, not quite down to just two choices. There’s always a third choice when it comes to dealing (or not dealing) with out-of-control governments: creative disregard. A most epic community-wide checkpoint refusal. (Tip o’ hat to MSJ) Coming someday to a country near you? As of last night, only 40% of ATM machines in Greece still had money in them. I’ve been collecting links on the Confederate flag idiocy — collecting links…
No, that’s not the answer to life, the universe, and everything (+50). That’s how hot it got here yesterday. It’s cooler this morning but managing to be gray, dry, muggy, and threatening all at once. We are under something called a “Red Flag Fire Weather Warning,” which I’ve never heard of before. Usually our weather maps are more greenish. Never seen this orangey-purply stuff before.
Though theoretically there’s a Craigslist covering my area, most of the activity on it is hours away. So I never pay any attention to it. But I got to looking at Hondas, Toyotas & such yesterday and found one newer-model Honda way, way, way too cheap with no explanation at all. Except there were some cuss marks (&^5$#) in the headline, clearly indicating some sort of story. I emailed the woman (supposed woman, but who knows), who responded with a tragic account about how the car was in perfect shape but it belonged to her recently killed son (cut down…
Was thinking this morning — no idea why — about a friend who was once arrested on the absolutely magnificent (and no doubt Victorian) charge of “tending to lead an idle, lewd, and dissolute life.” A kind of catch-all charge, I gather, for underage kids who weren’t actually caught in any specific act, but who were nevertheless up to no good. A 17-year-old high school senior, he was busted at a college party where drugs figured heavily. Apparently that high-flown charge was originally invented by reformists committed to the belief that minors were salvageable and as yet incapable of actually…
More surprises from the most transparent administration in history. That DoJ gag order against Reason was even more unreasonable than it seemed. Though I gasp at his apparent belief that U.S. cops aren’t hardass enough, Kevin D. Williamson is once again perspicacious. He says we’re seeing “peak leftism.” We can surely hope so, because if the current crop of ranters and banners goes much farther, we’ll end up with full-blown fascism. Drug addiction: It isn’t what we’ve been told. (This book by the writer of that article looks like a must read: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days…
The inventor of the pink plastic flamingo (yes, there was actually an inventor) has died. Our lives are tackier cheesier more kitschy weirder richer for his having lived.
How will we ever survive without our precious national raisin reserve? And from the same government that confiscates farmers’ raisins, we now have the mad attempt to force rich suburbs to accommodate poor minorities. Your neighborhood is racist if it doesn’t comply. No wonder more states are quietly rebelling against the federal control of all things. Here’s one more small rebellion. (H/T L.A.) How one criminal with an obsession discovered and revealed the obnoxious, illegal Stingray program. (Yes, “they” really were “beaming rays” into his house.) “Same sex marriage, Tolerance, MYOB, Get Off My Lawn & the Constitution.” Seventeen years…
You thought maybe the TSA was the fedgov’s worst example of idiotic “security”? Hey, at least the TSA puts on an impressive pretense. OTOH, it appears that the Office of Personnel Management actually gave root access for all those now-hacked personnel files to contractors in Argentina and … yes, here it comes: China. How Orange is the New Black misrepresents women’s federal prisons. Yes, but it’s a good show. And the memoir it’s based on is even better. More lesbian sex in the Netflix version, but the horror of petty people in power comes across even more strongly in the…
Yes, Schadenfreude is so ignoble. But: Former N.J. police chief gets a SWAT visit. Over a “personnel issue.” (H/T DB) And since David Codrea doesn’t seem to be doing them at the moment: here’s another “only one” for ya. Tragic one. Who hires creeps like this? Oh, any old PD looking for a good intimidator. Geronimo: birth of a resolute leader. Paul Bonneau finds a use for the U.S. Constitution after all. Oh, Texas! You are making some interesting moves. Yes, you are. Why is the media ignoring a “cyber Pearl Harbor”? The disposable life of a confidential informant. Only…