So, I saw this tweet:
"If you are a white man and think you do not own these books, try looking under your bed, they're probably there." http://t.co/cLnPBhUKES
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) May 12, 2015
I decided to see how accurate it was.
It was sort of a fail, at least for me. I own less than 25% of those books, and have read fewer than a third. Many of them I read as a kid, when my parents had copies.
Could he be this election cycle’s Ross Perot?
Just what we need.
The most memorable ones from Ashlee Vance’s new book
This law seems absurd.
We’re living in a Carl Hiaasen novel, with a crazy tenant who is destroying the property, and we want to evict her ASAP. Why is it incumbent on the landlord to prove a negative?
It seems like the first condition could be satisfied simply by pointing out that she’s been renting a home in Boca Raton, Florida, and there are no commutable military bases nearby.
The day it crashed into the earth, or something.
This story is depressing to me in what it says about the state of public education.
If you wonder why it’s low, it’s because of things like this:
“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,” one anonymous cadet wrote on the social media sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
a sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
It was female officers who made the cadets march in high heels. Seems like sexual harassment to me.
Also, Alinsky wears high heels.
[Bumped]
Partly out of interest, and partly because there don’t seem to be any yum packages for Kerbal, I decided to load it on a spare SSD (not using grub, I just go into the BIOS and decide which drive I want to boot). I set up an account. It didn’t ask me to create a password for root, just a personal account. I try to ‘su -i’ and it asks me for a password. I use the one I created for my personal account. Nope.
Way to go, guys.
When a memo like this has to be issued, things have gone pretty far south. Isn’t it pretty much illegal everywhere except Nevada and some foreign countries? Why not just issue a more general memo that Department employees should obey the law?
A new annoyance. I can’t just right-click to copy the email address, and I can’t even copy and paste — the only option I have is to send a mail from Gmail (which I only use in emergencies).
I agree with Ezra Klein. Run, Al, run!
I’m particularly enamored with his recent policy proposal to punish people who disagree with his junk science.