Of Nasty Nurses and Hash Tags
This had me near tears today (and it’s nothing to do with old age NHS vs social care scandals) (and it’s not exactly the Telegraph that it appears in): The Independent – Christina Patterson: Nasty nurses? Tell me something new Some people, on hearing that old people in hospital were being left lying in their [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Brief History of Blame
Useful: NRO – Michelle Malkin: Blame Righty: A Condensed History The Left has a long record of blaming the Right for crimes of nonpartisan lunatics. In April 2009, a disgruntled, unemployed loser shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in a horrifying bloodbath. The gunman, Richard Poplawski, was a dropout from the Marines who threw [...]
Categories: Politics
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCLV
Wheat & Weeds – I Burn My Books One Word At A Time Hehehehe classic.
Categories: Art and Literature
Say You’re At Stanford…
I finally got around to reading in full a column by Teddy Dalrymple on the Pope that RC2 linked to the other day. Since I do love a point-proving hypothetical: It is universally accepted that step-fathers, for example, are many times more likely to commit both physical and sexual abuse against children than biological fathers; [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The World’s Worst Screw
Via the Australian (and elsewhere): “Lawyers cry foul over leak of Julian Assange sex-case papers“ In a move that surprised many of Mr Assange’s closest supporters on Saturday, The Guardian newspaper published previously unseen police documents that accused Mr Assange in graphic detail of sexually assaulting two Swedish women. One witness is said to have [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The State That Can Do Anything But Keep Us From Going Blowed Up
The Times – David Aaronovitch: This is no Robin Hood. They were our secrets<br/> The Assangeists don’t trust the State to run foreign or defence policy. So why do they trust it to run everything else? Let me make a quick observation about how, in this supposed war, contradictory positions are adopted. We have Tea [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Inappropriate Questions Before the Inappropriate Touching
Towards the end of another good point about the TSA ridiculousness, Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says, I found: On Tuesday, TSA administrator John Pistole said the agency may change its screening rules for victims of sex abuse. Jesus how are they gonna screen for that? The TSA [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Codename “Rubes”
Sweet, but kinda alarming, unless we really, really get that there are people being hypocritical out there: The Times – The secret’s out: the Yanks are a force for good David Aaronovitch When this whole thing started at the weekend it was billed as a series of tales of damage and scandal concerning the United [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
GWOT and the Breastfeeding Threat at Home
TSA Breast Milk Screening Harassment Okay, first of all, who puts breast milk through the x-ray machine? They always have those little laser scanners for baby stuff. Apple juice, water, empty sippy cups, all that jazz. What on earth point is there in x-raying a plastic storage baggie of milk? It’s a baggy. You swish [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Peter Recommends CXXVII
Quothe Peter: “FFS.” TSA Screener Accosts 3 Year Old Child at Security Checkpoint He also found this article with accompanying slideshow of a few of 35,000 images from one of those x-ray scanners that, err, can’t save images. And the images that they can’t save are discarded immediately. Which is why Gizmodo unearthed all 35,000 [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Dear John, From Hal
Something James Delingpole found for his Telegraph blog, and reprinted in its entirety (as am I (can’t stop the signal!)): Dear Curt: [as Dear John letters go, "Dear Curt" is a really good one] When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Sakineh’s Son Writes to 27 European States
I don’t think Ruthie Gledhill will mind if I repost this letter in full: Articles of Faith Blog – Sakineh’s son writes: ‘My mother is innocent and has spent five years languishing in cold, black pit.’ From Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani To 27 European Countries: Greetings to all officials in European countries, [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Art Installation as Provocative, Political
Compare Ai Weiwei (designer of the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing) to, I dunno (Wikies at random), this glorified theme park for pretentious adults: The Times – Ai Weiwei: the artist risking his safety for art, by Janice Turner Ai has always been a cussed, provocative figure. He took a series of photographs, Study in [...]
Categories: Art and Literature
Rizzo, the Rat
I thought I already blogged about the city of Bell, California, population 37,000, mostly hispanic, per capita income of $24,800, whose administrators are making between $1.54 million (with 143 paid vacation days) and $770,000 on the low end. But I must have Twittered it. There was a city council hearing when a mainstream newspaper actually [...]
Categories: Politics
Welfare: Recreating the African Savannah on British Council Estates Since 1948
Hehehe: Telegraph Blogs – Ed West: The man with 15 kids by 14 women. The welfare state has turned back the clock – to one million BC
Categories: People and Current Events
