The Baltimore Police have a huge problem. Not only has it turned out that the street cops are thugs that murder citizens, lie when giving testimony, and retaliate against whistleblowers – they’ve got a large contingent that appear to pad their books very heavily.
Trump’s big “trade war” is going to result in unexpected windfalls for some people, as prices go up and new trade hot-points emerge. To say that the trade war is stupid is an understatement.
The Register reports, in shock, that British F-35s are going to have their engines serviced in Turkey.
In 1999, I became a millionaire on paper by selling shares in a company that I had created for the express purpose of selling the shares. That ought to sound bizzare to you, and it is – it’s one of the weirdest parts of corporate capitalism. The entire thing feels like a scam, except that the money is very real, or it’s not, depending on what happens.
Americans my age grew up to imagery in LIFE Magazine, of cops beating black protesters. Oddly, I think of desegregation as something that happened, and jim crow was a bad period we mostly grew out of.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
How is bombing Syria going to help stop people gassing Syria?
Donald Trump announced a $600 million cut to the cost of the F-35 joint strike fighter. That sounds pretty good, unless you look at the $600 million stacked up against the total program cost, which is going to be nearly $1 trillion by the time the first-order fleecing is complete. [cnbc]
People send me links to weird things; so I have become a nexus of weird. It’s a good place to be.
What. The. Fuck.
“Jaywalking suspect”?
Jaywalking?!?!?
Put the word “Jaywalking” with “suspect” and it makes absolutely no sense at all.
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There’s a fellow on Twitter who somehow came across my path, claiming that the Japanese are playing victim regarding the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima. This moves me to want to offer a refuter for those who encounter such idiocy. It’s probably not complete – feel free to tell me what to add.