Well, Bird Dog must be halfway to Canobie Lake Park by now, wearing black socks and flip-flops and an "I'm With Stupid" T Shirt his wife gave him for Christmas back in Reagan's first term. It's faded a bit with washing, and the arrow on the belly under the text that used to point to his companion has been worn away entirely by the rusty chrome arm of the mower every Saturday, so it's kind of a Zen thing now. Have fun, Bird Dog.
George Orwell reviews Mein Kampf!
"The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do."
At any given time, there are always a few people that see things as they are, not as they wish them to be. If you put a gun to my head, I'd have trouble naming them right now.
Known in its heyday as the capital of coal, Yubari has lost 90% of its population in 50 years.
It's Detroit full of Japanese: No graffiti or guns; plenty of the usual government bright ideas; still a hellhole.
The Happiest Regions In America
I have always answered the question, "How are you?" with, "Worse."
Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls
"Frustrated Mom" being another term for "bad mom," I assume.
A Google employee forgot to remove Post-it notes and it’s fueling a lawsuit
Google, Facebook, Apple et al. are run by the worst kinds of greedy grasping turds ever seen in commerce. They would have had a back desk with no responsibilities in any Gilded Age business that produced anything worthwhile.
Competitor dies in the middle of a match during Chess Olympiad in Norway and another is found dead in hotel room
It says En Passant right on the box. Duh.
They've awarded this year's Fields Medals.
It worries me that I completely understood one of the descriptions, because I'm a dolt. I thought they only gave out phony Nobels.
The Street’s Secret Code What asphalt tags say about the city
The average college graduate doesn't know much about the real world, and is easily fooled and amazed.
Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.
I love it when educators "discover" what was obvious to a schoolmarm in 1875.
$1,000 a month for tiny room, bedbugs, seedy surroundings in the Mission
So? Going by the national average, it costs over $4500 a month for those kids to go to public school, and it's worse than that apartment.
Have a great Sunday. After the aspirin, I mean.
