Reason Hit & Run directs our attention to Officer Matthew J. Lyons of the Oceanside, California police department. Lyons runs into a few issues that usually send other officers scrambling for their handguns and threats: an openly-carried weapon and a … Continue reading
Two state legislators are stepping up their efforts in the fight against horse-drawn carriages, calling on New York City to ban the “outdated entertainment practice” a day after several people were injured when a taxi slammed into a hansom cab. … Continue reading
General Electric Co. (GE)’s health-care unit, the world’s biggest maker of medical-imaging machines, is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing to tap growth in China. “A handful” of top managers will move to the Chinese capital … Continue reading
In the release version of Mac OS X 10.7, there is a bug that prevents secondary click working with two-finger click on the Macbook Pro 4,1. The only way to right-click is using Control+click. To enable right-click using two-finger click, … Continue reading
A Bronx neighborhood went without its library during last week’s heat wave and the Van Nest branch was still closed Monday afternoon, frustrating patrons young and old. The Barnes Ave. library shut down on July 18 after its air-conditioning system failed, … Continue reading
He himself, as we just heard, said you can’t reduce the deficit to the levels we need without raising revenues. Then he talks about the [tax break for] corporate jets, which he mentioned not once but six times. I did … Continue reading
Between 2000 and 2008, the UAW gave $23,675,562 to the Democrat Party and its candidates. (During that same eight years, the UAW gave a whopping $193,540 to Republicans.) In 2008 alone, the UAW gave $4,161,567 to the Democrat Party – … Continue reading
And — not inconsequential during the current struggle over deficits and spending — a sane diet could save tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs. Yet the food industry appears incapable of marketing healthier foods. … Continue reading
When CNN hired Elliot Spitzer many complained hiring the disgraced former governor was a new low in cable news. Allow me to submit to you that with the hiring of “Reverend” Al Sharpton to be their 6pm host, MSNBC has … Continue reading
Emily Koczela had been anxiously waiting for months for Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill to take effect. Koczela, the finance director for the Brown Deer school district, had been negotiating with the local union, trying to get … Continue reading
Here we go again. While Leiby Kletzky’s parents and sisters were still sitting the seven days of shiva, mourning the brutal killing of their son, politicians in our community were already announcing a law in reaction to the terrible tragedy that struck them. No … Continue reading
I was at a public hearing in an inner-city Birmingham neighborhood for various government officials to get public input on some local environmental issues. There are several hot topics, but one of the highest-profile disputes is over a proposal for … Continue reading
“I can’t believe you annoyed the God hates fags people and they’re willing to be interviewed by everybody!”
via liveaction.org It’s all in your mind.
More than 140,000 kids have been barred from taking out books from city libraries because they owe hefty fines – but officials want to get them reading again. Starting today, the New York Public Library will offer amnesty to thousands … Continue reading
The new meme in Washington is that the debt ceiling can be completely ignored and overridden by the Great One in his effort to plunge us further into debt. Bill Clinton told Obama that the 14th Amendment’s Section 4 gives … Continue reading
via failblog.org If you don’t get why this is funny, you may want to leave New York City for awhile.
The phenomenon he’s talking about happens when ticketholders linger at a tailgate party and arrive at their seats a couple innings into the game. Or they leave the seats for a while in order to wander around the stadium, meet … Continue reading
The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting factoid in this debt ceiling debate. In 8 years of President Bush, the debt ceiling increased $5.35 trillion. In 3 years of Obama, the debt ceiling (if raised to the level of $16.5 trillion) will have been … Continue reading
This is how househunting feels to me.
(via Best pond we could get - Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?)
Getting… Sleepy…