May 2012
6 posts
“If you had inside knowledge of an investment that you thought would be worth...”
– John Shinal of MarketWatch, commenting on the fact that Facebook insiders are selling a large portion of their shares.
(via moneyisnotimportant)
From Veep...
Selina Meyer: This has been pencil-fucked? Completely?
Mike McLintock: Um, yes. From the back. Very little romance.
April 2012
11 posts
Denver Post to lay off copy editors, shift... →
Reporters will now be copy editors in addition to everything else. How soon before they are also responsible for delivery?
Study: Just four jobs are worse than being a... →
Yep.
March 2012
16 posts
“As he rolled out his 2013 budget on Tuesday, Paul Ryan, the House Budget...”
– The New York Times, The Careless House Budget (via wisconsinforward)
More than half of Mississippi GOP voters say Obama...
More than half of likely Republican voters in Mississippi say they think President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm.
Fifty-two percent said that Obama practiced Islam, while just 12 percent said he was a Christian. Thirty-six percent said they were not sure.
Obama, whose father and stepfather both came from Muslim...
Winthrop man charged with disturbing the peace for... →
He was trying to help his daughter’s team. What a swell guy.
Maddie has declared that her coloring table is her “office.” Sam is allowed in her office because he is her “worker person.”
Poor Sam. He’s going to be doing her bidding for YEARS.
Funniest kid ever. And let’s all have a moment of silence for Sam’s dignity, which he will never see again.
“I don’t get too worked up about what Rush Limbaugh says because he is, and has...”
– Jon Stewart
1 tag
Parenthood Rule #1109
The second child comes pre-wired to annoy the older child and then look innocent. Older child asks for it.
Scene: Daddy scrambling to make dinner before the 6 p.m. chorus of “I’m hungry” begins.
Daddy, Sam is touching me and pulling my hair.
Sam, stop picking at your sister.
He’s still doing it.
Grumble, grumble, grumble…Daddy goes to separate them.
At the crime...
February 2012
10 posts
The Dove eggs are here! the Dove eggs are here!
With apologies to Steve Martin and “The Jerk.”
Dove Eggs are kosher this year, although not kosher for Passover. Wonder why?
“Rick Santorum… Oh god please let him go the distance. Rick Santorum is amazing....”
– Rachel Maddow on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (via nerdysouth)
NOT FROM THE ONION: Arguably the strangest thing...
In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Thursday, billionaire Santorum backer Foster Friess said that debates over the candidate’s personal objections to contraception are overblown, adding that, in his day, “gals” used aspirin as birth control.
In a rather strange joke, Friess said: “This contraception thing, my gosh it’s so inexpensive. Back in my day they...
In Central Massachusetts, bargain hunters can find... →
ATHOL - How far have home values dropped in this Central Massachusetts town? The answer sounds like the punch line to a joke, but no one is laughing: They’ve eroded so much that you can buy a house for about the cost of a Toyota Camry.
Hundreds of students riot at UMass Amherst after... →
And, of course.
Saw this coming from a mile away... →
Susan G. Komen for the Cure said on Friday it was retreating from a decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood after the move generated a public outcry.
“I’m not going to comb over that.”
– White House press secretary Jay Carney, when asked about Donald Trump’s endorsement. (via theatlantic)
January 2012
11 posts
“I predict to you there will be a major scandal associated with the Supreme Court...”
– John McCain Goes Off Message, Predicts ‘Major Scandal’ Related To Unlimited Political Giving (via brooklynmutt)
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)
Fall River dentist accused of using paper clips in... →
“‘I want to tell you that I’ve gotten to know Karen [Santorum] and she is just...”
– Evangelical leader James Dobson, Callista Gingrich was a ‘Mistress For Eight Years’ - HuffPo via Politico (via brooklynmutt)
Police: Mass. woman sells crack with kids in car →
Mother of the year award goes to…