Off to a bbq, despite it being overcast. Loyola beat Maryland the other day in the National Championship Lacrosse game, which means that three schools from Baltimore have won the championship (Maryland and Johns Hopkins being the other two), and my mother wants to know if any other city has three different colleges which have …
Archives for June 2012
Lying to the Judge Was Probably Unwise
Nice going: A Florida judge revoked bond Friday for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. Seminole County Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. ordered Zimmerman to surrender to the county sheriff within 48 hours. Lester accused Zimmerman of having misrepresented how much money he had when his bond …
American Exceptionalism
The most interesting thing about the Stuxnet story Mistermix discussed this morning is how long after a country openly admitted they had launched a cyberattack on a nuclear plant here in the United States would it be before we started bombing? And before the idiot apologists start chiming in about how I should go vote …
Ask an expert, ask Jeb Bush
In case anyone had any doubts, a Florida newspaper did an analysis of Governor Rick Scott’s voter purge and this is what they found: Hispanic, Democratic and independent-minded voters are the most likely to be targeted in a state hunt to remove thousands of noncitizens from Florida’s voting rolls, a Miami Herald computer analysis of …
I Can Handle Criticism
This is from a good James Fallows round-up of research on the tone of campaign coverage. Obama always has more negative than positive coverage, while Romney generally has more positive than negative. Your liberal media at work.
Handful Of Job Breakers
Jobs numbers pretty much fooled everyone on the econ side, but not anyone on the political side. The American jobs engine hit stall speed in May, with the economy adding just 69,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent. As another summertime swoon looms, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that job …
Hub Of The Universe Chutzpah, International Division
Y’all may have seen some version this image…it’s been flowing through the ‘tubes pretty freely: I have to say, the whole tableau cracks me up: just look at Bobby Z.’s expression. But beyond the momentary hit of the surreal contained therein, what you may have missed in the coverage of all this is the way …
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