I’ve finally gotten in touch with the Google+Blog plugin guy, and am shuffling info requests between him and my host. So, hopefully, the automation will start working again Real Soon Now.
Meantime …
This and that:
- The cost of rape – Not the emotional cost, but the actual medical bill cost. In the US, at least.
- A nice cease-and-desist letter? Inconceivable! – Sometimes trademark lawyers can be cool. Yeah, hard to believe.
- I would buy this cereal. Or t-shirts. Or mugs. – Truth.
- Slamming Penn State – Good.
- Coming soon to breadlines near you – Our retirement system sucks. And it’s getting worse, especially as pensions become less common and people do a poor job of saving.
- Jobmakers, Wagecutters – Because why not try to cripple pensions and social security? It’s a win-win!
- Thanks, Sally. Rest in Peace. – Sally Ride, RIP.
More on the Colorado theater shootings:
- Misplaced sensitivity – Yes, please be sensitive. But be sensitive in a meaningful way.
- Doctor Jerry Newcombe is a Dolt (Gathered to Jesus Edition) – Because, of course, now is the time to mention that all the non-Christians who were killed are now down in Hell. Stay classy, Jerry!
- Blaming the Victims – If you’re going to blame the movie theater victims for not charging the shooter, don’t back down and say you were really just talking about the evils of gun control. It just make you look like a cowardly jerk.
- Solutions to the problem of theater shootings – Are there solutions? And do they raise bigger problems than what they purport to solve?
- If only there were more guns – Because that would have solved all the problems, because everyone carrying a gun should really be firing it off in a dark, smoky theater and at the one person who’s obviously the target because they’re … firing a gun.
- People suck at risk analysis – Which is why we overreact to some things, and underreact to others.
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Penn State: “Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people,” Emmert said.
And I am Marie of Roumania. It’s a nice thought, though.
Yeah, it’s hard to take that sort of talk too seriously. Sports is such a huge part of the revenue stream of universities now, it inevitably becomes the tail wagging the dog.