Archive for May 7th, 2012

Snark snark aborted snark.

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Prosecutors also showed a Taser allegedly used by Cpl. Jay Cicinelli in the beating of Thomas on a video screen visibly covered in blood.

You’d think that they could at least wipe off that video screen first. But this is California; they do things differently there.

I was going to make a snarky comment that this NYT article on what killed Vladimir Ilyich Lenin didn’t include my own favorite theory. Except that it does:

Dr. Lurie concurred on Friday, telling the conference that poison was in his opinion the most likely immediate cause of Lenin’s death. The most likely perpetrator? Stalin, who saw Lenin as his main obstacle to taking over the Soviet Union and wanted to get rid of him.
Communist Russia in the early 1920s, Dr. Lurie told the conference, was a place of “Mafia-like intrigue.”

Well, darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable, and lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.

Monday, May 7th, 2012

  He went home three years later. He explained no more than to say, “I lived with the Crows for a while. It was sometime before I could leave. They called me Horse.”
He did not find it necessary either to apologize or to boast, because he was the equal of any man on earth.
—”A Man Called Horse”, Dorothy M. Johnson

  Instapundit and other folks have written eloquently about the “higher education bubble”. Other people I know and respect, like TJIC, have commented on ridiculous majors and the ridiculous people who pursue them.

So why did I go back to school? Why did I spend six years and <mumble mumble> dollars pursuing a degree? And why St. Ed’s? I’m not Catholic.

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Headline of the day.

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Dolphins die of heroin overdoses after zoo rave