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Apparently the Occupy Wall Street folks are shocked and disillusioned that those icky homeless people would come in and take their stuff and start fights. Of course I don’t think that folks took $5500 Macbooks to their sit-ins and protests back in the day–they didn’t take anything of value with them because at the time,… Continue reading

Cue the violins now.  If you don’t want to read my mental meanderings, check out some earlier blogposts.  You have been warned. This has been kind of an odd couple of weeks.  I talked to a friend’s husband while waiting for her to come home and he’d just lost a friend to a heart attack… Continue reading

Okay, so some moron on a plane named Ali Reza Shahsavari starts yelling “You’re all going to die!  Allahu Akbar!”  They get him off the plane and the comment from the feds goes something along the lines of ‘it’s okay, we don’t think it’s terrorism related, he’s just an asshole.’  But the part of the… Continue reading

In a study out on October 18, it seems that the Washington DC area is now the wealthiest metropolitan area in the United States.  Someone should tell the Useful Idiots a.k.a. the Occupy people that wealth is not concentrated on Wall Street–the average federal employee makes $126,000 a year.  They have now out-earned Silicon Valley–using… Continue reading

…but you’ll probably be under it, rather than on it. When Jake Tapper was recently interviewing Capt. Flawless about Operation Fast and Furious, who said:  “It’s very upsetting to me to think that somebody showed such bad judgment that they would allow something like that to happen,” he said. “And we will find out who… Continue reading

A twenty-one year old junior from Illinois State University (quick google check says he’s an ‘environmental health’ major), Sean Richards, has decided to quit school and join the Occupy Chicago protest full-time.  But riddle me this…  in the article linked above, the Occupy Chicago people have both a ‘police liaison’ and a ‘safety and security… Continue reading

The text reads  “Did we do anything in the 1980’s other than watch movies?”  My response:  “We went to the roller rink and skated to the tune of YMCA.  Other than that, not much.” Here’s a movie that embodies both.  I believe at the time, one critic referred to it as “Terpsichore on Roller Skates”. Continue reading

…  that they’ve already reproduced.  In MA a couple with a three week old baby couldn’t find their way out of a corn maze and called the police to come find them (it took seven minutes for the cops to get to them).  Here’s an interesting quote from the female that seems to be indicative… Continue reading

Working where I do is giving me a unique look at higher education in this country.  I see where the meme has morphed from ‘we must provide worthy underprivileged kids with a chance to go to college’ to ‘all kids must go to college’ with a myth that this path is the only way to… Continue reading

Apparently there has been a war going on within the Amish community and it has escalated.  A group called the Bergholz Clan, led by a man named Sam Mullet, has been attacking other Amish in their homes and were cutting off the beards of men and the hair of the women (the growing of the… Continue reading