Friday, July 8, 2011

Assortment

Something else from Down Under: In a marriage of tradition and innovation, two Australians have invented an iPhone case that includes a bottle opener (the product is called the Opena). Beer and wireless communications: synergy, baby!

If only the guy had been carrying his expired boarding pass in his shorts, the TSA might have caught him before he got on the plane.

Are establishment Republicans about to find themselves being herded toward the elephant graveyard? Could be, if Bill Kristol is right.

Stacy McCain is all over the 36th-District congressional election in California, and the controversy surrounding Democrat Janice Hahn’s attempts to play sugar-momma to L.A. gang leaders.

Barbarians at inside the gates: flash mobs becoming a nationwide problem.

Jeff Goldstein – than whom there is no one more skilled in felicitously combining snark and deep thought – provides an economic rundown of our rundown economy.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie obviously has friends in high places.

3 comments:

rinardman said...

A wide assortment, indeed.

Don't drink, don't own a cell, so not much interest in the Opena.

The people who've had trouble boarding a plane with a legitimate boarding pass are probably saying "WTF!"

Republicans. Democrats. Just drop both, and call them Politicians.
In the derogatory sense, I mean.

Flash mobs? Here in my part of the country (the sloping forehead part), a "flash mob" is a bunch of retirees converging on McDonalds for their morning coffee!

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bruce said...

15 minutes to the great Climate Change announcement by our Redhead PM, King Canute stand aside!

Could anything be more idiotic? And the vast majority are against it.

This week my region was blacked out by a storm for over 12 hours. All we had was an old landline phone, but ringing utilities or emergency 'services' was useless, 'I cannot give you any information...'

I wrote to my local govt rep, who chastised me, 'The emergency services are doing a great job!' I didn't say they weren't, just that govt should INFORM and trust the public!

We are falling into a Kafka world!

Paco said...

It does increasingly seem to be a world gone mad.