November 28, 2012
So Clark County School District — the 5th largest school district in the nation — has a “successful” pilot of a program to keep track of students on school busses. Parents can theoretically find out whether their kids got on the bus, and where the bus is. Roughly 700 of the 110,000 students who daily [...]
Tags: budget cuts, cats, cell phones, Christmas, computer security, courts, Ezra Klien, fiscal cliff, hackers and crackers, holiday spending, income inequality, inflation, music, orchestra, police, porn, Rep. John Boehner, RFID, Robert Heinlein, school bus, schools, taxes, the pill, Warren Buffett, women's issues
Posted in Teaching, Learning, and Education
November 26, 2012
Bad gifts have been around for longer than I’ve been alive.
Tags: Christmas
Posted in Music Monday
November 25, 2012
Hey dear, let me tell you why you’re never going to lose that 10 to 20 pounds around your hips and waist and why your hubby is never going to lose the gut unless you change your ways. I’m not going to put all the blame on the expensive whole wheat crap that you think is [...]
Tags: abortion, ACLU, children, computer security, diet and exercise, exercise nutrition, Facebook, food, hackers and crackers, low-carb, low-fat, playgrounds, poverty, privacy, Social Security, tires, travel, whole grains
Posted in Eat, Drink, and Move That Body!
November 19, 2012
In Closing: That would be bad; Googlegator; Japan Crush; Rolling Jubilee gets more press; the last cooler than average month was during the Reagan Administration (maybe hell froze over when he compromised with Democrats or raised taxes?); Lost Decade, American Style; Forbes and USA Today disagree on the buyer, but agree that somebody will [...]
Tags: alligators, budget deficit, bullying, deficit, ecology, economy, filibuster, food, global climate change, global warming, Google, Grand Bargain, Hostess, infrastructure, Japan, national deficit, Senate, Stan Freberg, taxes, Thanksgiving, Twinkies, Unions, wages
Posted in Music Monday
November 15, 2012
Hints of Sanity: Newt says something’s got to change. Yesterday this was the funniest thing on the Internet: Review of Guy Fieri’s restaurant. UN Believable: UN says “increasing funding for family planning by a further $4.1 billion could save $11.3 billion annually in health bills for mothers and newborns in poor countries.” Pro-Life My @$$: Woman suffers for days [...]
Tags: abortion, cars, David Petraeus, Election 2012, food, Guy Fieri, Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, poverty, War on Drugs, women's issues
Posted in Shorties
November 12, 2012
Be it resolved that henceforth, only T-Pain will be allowed to use autotune in recorded music. Other uses shall be considered a crime against humanity. It is further resolved that quotations of Rapper’s Delight may only be made with the express consent and permission of the United Nations Security Council.* Please, join me in support [...]
Tags: belly buttons, Bruce Schneier, Depak Desai, filibuster, health insurance, health insurance reform, Mitt Romney, Mongols, Obamacare, Pitbull, politics, President Hugo Chavez, President Obama, Puerto Rico, Rap, religion, Rolling Jubilee, science, Security Theatre, Sugar Hill Gang, T-Pain, women's issues
Posted in Music Monday
November 7, 2012
Submitted for your approval: Though it became a well-known pop culture joke after Samuel L. Jackson’s 2006 fictional movie, snakes can sometimes be found on a plane. That’s exactly what happened on Tuesday when a cabin crew was checking an airplane that landed in Glasgow, Scotland, according to The Scotsman newspaperin Edinburgh. The flight had come in from Cancun, Mexico when [...]
Tags: abortion, air travel, airport security, Cancun, cars, Election 2012, food, gay rights, Mitt Romney, Playa Del Carmen, polls, poverty, Puerto Rico, Scotland, snakes, taxes
Posted in The World
November 3, 2012
I like bacon as much as the next omnivore. And I like bourbon. I just don’t think I want to consume them at the same time.
Tags: alcohol, bacon, funny pictures, pictures
Posted in Picture This
November 1, 2012
The Balclutha is also at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Tags: boats, pictures, San Francisco
Posted in Picture This