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Tag Archives: Events of the Day
All good things must end…even local breakfast joints
Terrific article about the closing of a beloved local restaurant in Indiana: On the last morning, before the waffle irons went cold and the pictures came down, before the lock refused to lock, before the claw crashed through the roof, … Continue reading
You think YOUR Monday sucks?
I wonder how long it took this truckdriver to figure out what to say in his phone call to his employers. I’ve been fond, for a couple of years, of the metaphor of a “tire fire” for something that’s going … Continue reading
We will not talk about the shutdown here!
That is all. Ixnay on the utdown-shay!
The City of Dead Works (a repost)
I wrote this not long after the awful events of 9-11-01, and I repost it every year on that date, marking the time as one of America’s worst days makes its inevitable transition from Memory into History. “The City of … Continue reading
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Sports columnist Jason Whitlock is often an interesting commentator on race issues, particularly as they relate to sports. Here’s an excerpt from his column today: The people at the top of the rap music food chain should not be afforded … Continue reading
The Problem
We expect our legal system to produce moral consequences, and yet, so often it does not. It’s probably the case that a codified legal system can’t be expected to always produce moral consequences, precisely because what’s moral cannot be so … Continue reading
When in the course of human events…. (a repost)
(A repost of what I’ve run on July 4 the last couple of years) Here’s a really weird story. It’s so weird, I’m not sure the historians didn’t make it up out of whole cloth. It seems that around 235 … Continue reading
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One doesn’t see too many job listings for executioners these days
I’m trying to wrap my head around this story. A convicted murderer is about to go free in Indiana. The case has never been in doubt; this isn’t a case of innocence-by-DNA. The woman confessed to the crime, and there … Continue reading
Heckuva job, Boomers!
Kevin Drum: My generation got a cheap college education when we were young, and we’re getting good retirement benefits now that we’re old. Pretty nice. But now we’re turning around and telling today’s 20-somethings that they should pay through the … Continue reading
Return to Earth
Astronauts returning from the ISS looks like this: Well done! (Sorry for the lack of a whole lot of content this week…there’s a lot going on at Casa Jaquandor this week, so my focus is on keeping the pedal to … Continue reading