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Bringing light to the world
Via PurpleSlog, this is priceless
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Your saturday morning reading
- Dead Left – Jon Chair on Naomi Klein
- The Atlanta PD and their odd hat history
- Radley Balko and the non-existent presidential crime policies of the candidates
- American Murder Mystery – everyone should read this, it’s about the current and future face of crime.
- Report: Rich Consistently Outearning Poor
Armbrister stressed that it would be premature to draw any final conclusions from the 550-page report, cautioning that “much supplementary research must still be done.”
“Yes, we do need more data,” she said. “But regardless, it is apparent that a severe gulf exists between rich and poor. And this cannot be mere coincidence. There is clearly an unknown mitigating factor at work here, and I strongly suspect it may be financial in nature.
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A convincing case for Bush impeachment
is made by former Reagan official Bruce Fein on BloggingHeads. And for the record, I still prefer Bush over Kerry. It won’t happen due to the fact that Bush was smart enough to enlarge presidential powers for all subsequent presidents, so no one will have the incentive to give any of them up.
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Massive insight – Obama in Europe edition
With the rich, popular, and good looking candidate playing in Europe to adoring crowds, and with McCain unable to draw flies here in America, despite being the more experienced deserving candidate; McCain must feel like he’s in an Adam Sandler movie.
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Company Endorsement
This one goes out to Delta Machinery, who capably fixed my jointer and planer for free (both were under warranty). An easy process with very little need for documentation.
Just giving credit where credit is due.
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Random insight from the ride back: Modern politics
The Bush administration has been like a movie version of a Jimmy Carter book, starring Steven Seagal, and lasting eight years.
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Watchmen Trailer!
It’s out early
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Random business insight
Coming up with value-adds are usually a sign that you’re on the wrong track.
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Link clearing blog post
- Garet Garrett – an early libertarian writer, I just added his Atlas Shrugged precursor novel to my amazon.com wish list
- This story about a black widow who has just recently been revealed
- Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy — and name herself the beneficiary.
- “She told me that people of our stature have insurance policies on each other,” he said. “That way, if something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was all too suspicious. So I got out of there any way I could, as soon as I could.”
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Home is where they feed me
Assuming no one calls from the found dog signs I’ll be putting up tomorrow, it looks like Drex has a new playmate. Her name is tentatively Frida. I think someone abandoned her today. She’s very sweet and submissive and gets along surprisingly well with Drex. They both seem to have agreed that he is the Alpha of the two. Beyond that he doesn’t really care. Hopefully she can stop him from freaking out during thunderstorms.
