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Archive for September 29th, 2011

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Misc. complaints about people

By Thoreau
1) It is fascinating to deal with a person who talks a lot about work-life balance but is incapable of comprehending that people who make less money and have less prestigious jobs often have weekend hours that they can’t get out of.  This becomes a problem when trying to make plans, and I have [...]

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

John Kerry shrugged

By Thoreau
Ah, Massachusetts candidates!
In the town hall of 250 people — with his oversized debt clock as a backdrop — Romney addressed perceptions and concerns that he is “a flip flopper.”
“In the private sector,” he said, “if you don’t change your view when the facts change, well you’ll get fired for being [...]

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

The FBI’s “grow your own” approach to terrorism

By Thoreau
Details are still sketchy about the Evil Fiziks Type who was arrested in Massachusetts for a plot to blow up the Capitol building (I’m still waiting to hear the Tea Party’s response), but we do know that the FBI provided fake explosives, and that the whole plot revolved around toy airplanes.  A few months [...]