Thursday Bag o’ Snark
Yo, scammers, I already know a hot chicks who wear glasses … they’re in my book club, they’re real … and one of them is a biker too!
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
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Yo, scammers, I already know a hot chicks who wear glasses … they’re in my book club, they’re real … and one of them is a biker too!
Opinion-makers on the right … think stirring up racial resentment will energize the white base and help the GOP win elections.
Let me see if I’ve got this right. First, Republicans in Congress defund ACORN, the community-based organization that works on behalf of low-income families to improve neighborhood safety, help them obtain health care and affordable housing, and, perhaps most important, get registered to vote. ACORN can’t survive without federal funding, so it closes its doors. […]
Seriously, would you ever fly that carrier again?
Obviously we don’t yet know what happened to cause Asiana Flight 214 to crash at San Francisco International last Saturday. Anything I say will be speculative, but based on what I’ve seen, heard, and read to date, it sure looks like the pilots, through their own actions or inactions, got low and slow on final […]
I haven’t been blogging about current events. Consequently, I feel bottled up. It’s time to pop the cap and let some pressure out. First, the bag on the left. Normally when I write one of these Bag o’ Whatever posts I try to connect the bag graphic to the theme of the post. The fact […]
Neglecting the blog? Guilty. I must do better. Clearly, not much has been happening. My cold is finally gone, as well it should be in 105°F heat. I’m back to the normal swing of things: leading tours at the air museum once a week, riding the bicycle on Saturday mornings, hitting Anytime Fitness two or […]
I think we’ve all accepted in our hearts the notion that when we tap into the public electronic network … by landline or cell phone, by using credit and debit cards, by sending email, by paying bills online, by surfing the net and downloading or uploading files … we have no expectation of privacy.