You have three options: laugh, cry, or ignore. Titular quote: Female police officer speaking to a fifty-something man (apparently intoxicated) wearing a yarmulke. I hate to hear incorrect conjugations of the “to be” infinitive, though seeing an aging Yiddish man being read a kind of watered-down riot act helped defer the outrage. Laugh – It [...]
The latest in a long line of revelations regarding the efficiency of the government of the United States of America, here is: Brought to you by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, George Washington Bush, Richard Cheney, the Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex, et al. Oversight of contingency operations is important and must begin [...]
Taters = Potatoes in the mould = cold Tea leaf = thief The Sweeney = Sweeney Todd = Flying Squad, a special division of the Metropolitan Police; used as the title of TV series The Sweeney Thrup’ny Bits = Tits (Breasts) threepenny bit (an obsolete pre-decimal coin worth three pennies) Tin Lids = kids Titfer [...]
I just had the opportunity to listen to some of the spoken word pieces hosted here and I am (ashamed? mortified? recalcitrant?) … horrified to admit that I encoded them incorrectly. Internet Explorer may yield double-time Chipmunks’ renditions. Suffice it to say that the issue has been corrected (for now, at least). Let me know [...]
A brain-scanning study of people making financial choices suggests that when given expert advice, the decision-making parts of our brains often shut down. – Given “Expert” Advice, Brains Shut Downby Brandon Keim for Wired.com Not exactly news, per se…
As reported at the Brad Blog, Lexington 18 News, and Matt Blaze’s Exhaustive Search (where I happened upon it), a case has been made against election officials in Kentucky. They are accused of altering votes attempted on an electronic voting machine. Their technique exploited the weakest link in the electronic voting security chain: both usability [...]
… I don’t know why it is not informing public debate – it is: that we can’t always know. When we know of an impending disaster (and how to solve it at a cost less than the cost of the disaster itself) then there’s not going to be much argument, really – but no precautions [...]
Rarely does an episode of insomnia have so many ties to past efforts as this one – let’s review: A Chronology of Insomniac Work [Unknown circa 2002] – Scrawled ramblings which contributed to later efforts [Unknown circa 2004] – Wrote Operator Speaking: Locked Trace Assume Lethal (itself composed of many nights’ work – did not [...]
People are pissed off about this financial crisis, and about this bailout, but they’re not pissed off enough. The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d’état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual [...]
In the town of Port Hardy there is a road named “Chancellor Heights” which encircles approximately twenty-seven trailers at the center of a trailer park. View Larger Map
