Yesterday catching up with replying to comments and returning visits took the whole day, but I’m current again. I should stay that way, but I have some volunteer projects to work on and some paper work to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:26. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Lefty Bloggers Plus – Week 1:
Here are our scores:
Week 1
Score
Playin w/out a helm…
Recovering Republic…
64.9
122.4
Final
hugos misfits
elliot’s Team
116.4
85.6
Final
Greensburg Wombats
Seahawks Rock
63.3
91.7
Final
Rob’s Roosters
Jay’s Team
92.5
92.3
Final
Teabuggery Trashers
Lionel Hutz + The H…
56.1
80.5
Final
Here are our standings:
Team
W-L-T
Pct.
GB
Recovering Republicans
1-0-0
1.000
0.0
hugos misfits
1-0-0
1.000
0.0
Rob’s Roosters
1-0-0
1.000
0.0
Seahawks Rock
1-0-0
1.000
0.0
Lionel Hutz + The Hail Marys
1-0-0
1.000
0.0
Jay’s Team
0-1-0
0.000
1.0
elliot’s Team
0-1-0
0.000
1.0
Playin w/out a helmet
0-1-0
0.000
1.0
Greensburg Wombats
0-1-0
0.000
1.0
Teabuggery Trashers
0-1-0
0.000
1.0
Wouldn’t you know that, despite winning in both of my other leagues, I’m in last place here. 🙁
Short Takes:
From Business Week: President Barack Obama may appoint Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who scolded U.S. banks while overseeing their bailout, as the interim head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as early as this week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It’s about time!!
From Think Progress: A comprehensive Wonk Room survey of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate finds that nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming pollution. Remarkably, of the dozens of Republicans vying for the 37 Senate seats in the 2010 election, only one — Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware — supports strong climate action.
For Republicans, dumbing down starts at the top.
From Jim Hightower: Maybe you’re one of the thousands of young lawyers in America working in some low-skill, part-time job because law firms have cut so many of the starting positions you were educated to take. If so, I have good news: Jobs for young lawyers are now mushrooming in companies that provide legal services to U.S. corporations.
Unfortunately, you’ll have to move to India to get one. And the pay will be – how shall I put this? – "disappointing."
Lawyering has become the latest category of good jobs disappearing from our Land of the Free as corporate chieftains continue to offshore the American workplace.
What will our criminal corporate class outsource next, Congress?
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
Who will win in Delaware?
6 Responses to “Open Thread – 9/14/2010”
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4:30 😳
You will have better days, Jerry.
At least we can be thankful Teapublicans don’t get to vote on anything dealing with Gravity.
And if for no other reason than a Pascal’s Wager variant, it’s not clear – other than money and Faux told them so (which would include stupidity) – I have no idea why they’d even take the chance of being global warming deniers.
Nameless, the only thing I can think of is that they believe that Supply-side Jesus is going to make the go “poof” just in time.
Bwahahahaha! Otis knows so little about football it’s not even funny and yet he’s beating you all. Now that’s saying something!
Yay – Go Elizabeth!
They believe that God’s doing it!
I hope they do outsource Congress so we can start over. Out with the fossils!
GRRRR!! 😛
We win!!
Amen.
But to Asia?