September 2009
144 posts
And of course...
Mattel carved out an exemption for itself in the law.
But, you know, child safety!
“If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar,...”
– Seller, beware: Feds cracking down on secondhand sales of some products
You can thank the NYT for this dumb law, since back in 2006-2007, they led the charge against “unsafe” products imported from China, etc.
Then the toy companies led the charge for a new “child safety”...
August 2009
272 posts
The parole officer in the California kidnapping...
jayparkinsonmd:
The parole officer covering “Creepy Phil” totally blew it. Neighbors were complaining that children were living in the backyard in tents. He missed it. He reported to his superiors that all was well at the Garrido homestead…
Meanwhile, a young woman had been kidnapped and raped for 18 years and subsequently mothered two young children who were likely going to be held hostage the...
“As for that interview, incidentally, it was one of the more aggravating...”
– Nate Silver, on his interview for Fox and Friends last week.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: 50 Percent is Not a Magic Number
(via caterpillarcowboy)
How many active US Senators can you name?
caterpillarcowboy:
Will and I were going over this yesterday. I think we got about 5, I’m embarrassed to say.
In 2003, I did 91 at a party. I have witnesses to back me up, in case anyone doubts it.
Right now, I’m guessing I could do 50. Maybe just 40.
It's Rush Limbaugh versus Melissa Lafsky! →
johncarney:
It’s got to be pretty awesome to find you’ve become a Limbaugh target.
I saw this in the National Review, too. Awesome.
PARTY
Sup y’all!
I put this on the Facebooks, but to those of you who I may have missed, or am not friends with on there, y’all should come to my hastily-arranged 29th birthday party this Wednesday at Sweet & Vicious, starting around 9.
Bring friends and all that stuff.
Actually, The Quote Should Be:
“Life goes by too fast for slow-twitch muscles.”
The Hell of Vegan Travel
letthemeatmeat:
I discovered a blog called World Travel as a Vegetarian/Vegan. It hasn’t been updated in a year, but the core issue of the blog - traveling as a vegan - doesn’t change.
A semi-famous example of the trouble of vegan traveling is the story of Mark Boyle, a British vegan who planned a walk from the UK to the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. He began his journey without any money,...
Word's To Live Buy
“Life’s too short for slow-twitch muscles.”
“Education aside, I’ve always found that those who like spicy food are...”
– A commenter on Marginal Revolution’ “Why don’t more people like spicy food?
(I generally have found this to be the case, as well, though not always.)
“And Lipscani has exploded with new watering holes: one week in May saw the...”
– Lipscani, a Bucharest District, Struts Again - NYT
Tell me about it.
“Bypassing breakfast also makes you less productive and less likely to excel at...”
– Breakfast can make or break your day
When nutrition experts are suggesting that it’s better to eat a doughnut for breakfast, rather than no breakfast at all, you know the field is hopelessly lost in cloudcuckooland.
“What Novak’s prissy colleagues and competitors never liked about him and Evans...”
– Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn’s pretty much my favorite left-wing columnist these days. You should read the whole essay, calling Bob Novak the Hunter S. Thompson of the right.
“As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in...”
– Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds | Stars and Stripes
Interesting story about who decides who can report the news. And as the American Conservative notes — the fact that its Stars & Stripes breaking this, rather than a mainstream media pub, makes it harder for the...
“A 55-year-old man known for biking around Tallahassee wearing nothing but a...”
– CBS Channel 12 News
“Fox News was always too overtly, proudly conservative for even its fans to take...”
– Julian Sanchez
I’ve said this for a long, long, long time… but I sitll don’t get the liberal obsession with Fox News. BFD. Don’t like it? Don’t watch it. It’s that simple. Does it really gall people that much that their conservative? Is it really that much of an...
“Some religious people get offended when I contend that it is the fate of all...”
– Gene Expression: We are all Protestants now….
Interesting post about people from all manner of religions (non-orthodox Jews, Hindus, buddhists) evolving towards patterns of church and congregation in America that essentially resembles protestant churches.
“TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oral Roberts University is reporting a slight increase in...”
– Oral Roberts University reports enrollment increase for fall semester - KTEN.com
WatchCrazy riot footage in uptown Chicago.
Ted Kennedy = Democracy
Sorry, but are you guys NUTS?! I mean, I’m not going to comment on anything on this list, but jeez, if you’re going to put a list together of things that Ted Kennedy did that conservatives will like, you’ve GOT to come up with better.
For one thing, I’m not sure some of them are true, like state-controll of education? Pretty sure Ted Kennedy was an ally of President...
“Brian Wansink and Collin Payne recently examined the relationship between Body...”
– Nudges by Chopstick - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com (via caterpillarcowboy)
It’s pathetic that anyone would not use chopsticks to eat. I love chopsticks so much, I even wrote a song about them. I’ll record it and post it in due time. Fork-users are morons.
“My guess is that in the long run the newspapers will lose their more moronic...”
– The American Conservative » The Hannity Prophecy
From H.L. Menken’s diary, 1940.
Baldism.
katiebakes:
Whenever I see Ron Insana on CNBC I just assume it’s Jeff Zucker.
Whenever I see Jeff Zucker, I assume it’s Ari Fleischer.