A few suggestions on a relatively slow day:
- Costco looking at Piney Grove again — No sign yet that they’re looking for millions in concessions this time. That’s what caused the deal to break down before.
- DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans — Apparently, the message in the skeletons’ DNA, once decoded, said “welfare state.”
- Fellow senator describes Graham as “bro with no ho” — Weird comment by Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., is just barely audible on recording… The WashPost treats it as an etymological puzzle.
- How Do Companies Quietly Raise Prices? They Do This — The only reason I’m including this is that the story contains a new (to me) phrase that I’m adding to my list of possible band names, when I start a band: “Slack Fill.”
- Iowa police officer kills unarmed man who ‘walked with purpose’ — So, if he had “trudged with diffidence,” would he have gotten off with a warning?
Or whatever else interests you.
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4. Um. WSJ paywall?
Costco, but beyond Malfunction Junction? Nope….
Google the title of the WSJ article. Click link. Read and enjoy.
So, if he had “trudged with diffidence,” would he have gotten off with a warning?
-Brad
I know you have a certain sense of gallows humor going for you but to make such a tawdry comment about the death of a young man seems inappropriate to me.
As for the broader issue of police shooting people doesn’t it seem like 500 such killings over a years time should warrant a serious public discussion? Given the extremely low rate of officer’s being prosecuted, and then only when videos were present, this could become an important election year issue.
I was mocking the statement, not the death.
… But I take your point.
Journalists tend, in the newsroom, to deal with horrific things through gallows humor, saying things we’d never put in the paper. A blog can sometimes hover between the two modes…
Re: Costco, I hope so. Re: DNA give me a break. Re: Graham, that’s a really poor combination of words that could only arise from a stereotypical WASP trying to use ghetto slang to put down Lindsay, without specifically alluding to sexual orientation (wink, wink). Pretty sad. Regarding raising prices, yeah, what’s new (other than the WSJ not allowing the whole article to be read). Re: the shooting, please let this not be white on black. I understand that the woman was scared. For you guys to get the same feeling, consider an orangutan that seemed to be angry with you advancing toward you. But the second you add that racial balance you bring up all the ingrained, irrational fears about black men. This sounds like a horrible scenario, and wonderful fodder for the fanatic fringe, both right and left.
Love the DNA study. This is something of a hobby of mine, I administer two DNA studies at Family Tree and it is fascinating to see how fast this is changing our understanding of prehistory and of our more immediate family histories. It is actually possible to compare one’s own autosomal DNA (the kind that recombines in every generation, as opposed to male-lineage yDNA and maternal lineage mitochondrial DNA) with some of the archaeological specimens used in the study that is discussed here. I’ve done that, and have found that if you have a lot of German-Swiss farmers on our family tree, as I do, your ancestry traces back through (surprise!!) thousands of years of farmers in the same area. More surprisingly, because of some of the migrations mentioned in the article I have DNA in common with Clovis in the Americas, the earliest occupation for which we have DNA evidence. There is nothing like looking at your DNA results to make it clear how artificial us/them distinctions are.
They’ve been ‘slack filling’ coffee for years! When was the last time you saw a pre-packaged “pound” of coffee. For a long time, the “pound” has been 14 ounces and in the past year I’ve noted that it has dropped to as low as 11 ounces from some vendors. Combine that with the use of things like small yellow typeface against a blue background (or red against brown) and it’s nearly impossible to tell the weight on some packages.