Pictures from an album given to me when I left Kwajalein in March of 1978. I went out there on an 18-month contract for $3.65/hour in 1975. When I left two years and ten months later I’d gotten up to $5.25/hour. My last eight months I worked on an island about a half-hour’s flight away. …
Has anyone else noticed that the Occupiers have much better spelling and diction than the Tea Partiers?
The thing that strikes me about the still photo below of Lt. Pike spraying those kids is the inhuman calm he has about it, like he was spraying aphids on rose bushes or something. In addition, he had to have seen all the bystanders with cameras, and he didn’t care. Obviously he felt he had …
It’s not Kent State. Nobody died. But it’s another example of militarized police using the tools they’re given to control people whose behavior they don’t approve. This took place at UC-Davis yesterday, Nov. 18, 2011. Think Progress has details here.
It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. Have you cleaned your oven yet? How about your bird? Refrigerator Thawing Times (Whole turkey) 8 to 12 pounds…………1 to 2 days 12 to 16 pounds……….2 to 3 days 16 to 20 pounds……….3 to 4 days 20 to 24 pounds……….4 to 5 days Got the celery for the stuffing? Got …
Talking Points Memo: New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran said earlier this year that her state had a “culture of corruption” and referred 64,000 voter registration records to police that she thought were possible cases of voter fraud. Now a new report from her office proves she was completely right, 0.0296875 percent of the …
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makes for a tired Linkmeister. We ate the last of the sweet potato bread for breakfast this morning, so after our four-hour financial planning meeting I had to make another loaf. It’s just now on its first kneading.
You know, when Rick Perry said “oops” the other night, he was roundly ridiculed. Perry’s not a bank. JP Morgan Chase essentially confused one property with another, took $14K worth of household goods from it, and then, when confronted with its mistake, said “Oops.” And that’s all. The local law enforcement people say it’s not …
Gingrich? Gingrich?!? Really?!? Dear me. As much baggage as that phony carts around, I can’t imagine the mandarins in the Republican party are really happy with that prospective nominee.
It looks like the latest attempt to get an NBA season going has collapsed. I can’t say I’m surprised. When the owners start out with the position that the previous agreement with the players, which gave them 57% of basketball revenue (I think that leaves out TV money), was way too much and should be …