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Interesting blog

drunkablog | April 30, 2009

Check out NightJack, a blog by “a British detective” which recently won a (special) Orwell Prize. Don’t know nothin’ about prizes, but he’s good. Sort of a cross between Theodore Dalrymple and Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The Brit cop jargon is a little mystifying at first, but you’ll get it.

Thursday Night at the Radio!

drunkablog | April 30, 2009

Haven’t played this show in a long time. I Was a Communist for the FBIiiiiii! “I Can’t Sleep” (7 May 1952).
This either: Phil Harris and Alice Faye: “Health Food Diet” (21 November 1948).

Annals of landlording

drunkablog | April 30, 2009

In court today for trial in the Strange Case of the Tenant We’re Evicting. Yes, trial. For some unfathomable reason the tenant insisted. No jury, of course. The judge, who probably watches judge shows on his days off, entered the room and boomed, “What a beautiful day! Anybody see the games yesterday? The Nuggets won! [...]

Quote of a length of time to be named later!

drunkablog | April 30, 2009

I am often amazed to hear academics complain about the complexity of a particular discourse because of its alleged lack of clarity. It is as if they have assumed that there is a mono-discourse that is characterized by its clarity and is also equally available to all. If one begins to probe the issue of [...]

Churchill wants to be back at CU this fall

drunkablog | April 30, 2009

John Aguilar at the Daily Camera:
Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s legal team is aiming to get the ethnic studies scholar back in the classroom as soon as the fall semester, a Churchill attorney said Wednesday.
Qusair Mohamedbhai, one of three lawyers who successfully tried Churchill’s wrongful termination suit against the university in Denver District [...]

Recreate!68 in DHS report on cyber-security risks

drunkablog | April 29, 2009

The Department of Homeland Security report a couple of weeks ago on the danger of returning vets becoming rightwing crazies got a lot of attention, but there was another DHS report, this one published in January, on the risk of cyber-attacks by leftwing crazies. Both reports were begun under His Royal Moronness Chimpler X, but [...]

Taxpayers “Backstopping” $10.5 Trillion for Fed?!?!

jsacco | April 29, 2009

(Link here to 1984 and Animal Farm)
Unbelievably, the total number for all the taxpayer-backed guarantees authorized out there is $10.5 TRILLION with $2.7 TRILLION already spent! (This from CNN, not exactly a right wing extremist conspiracy group!) The entire US economy used to be about $14 trillion, and now 70% or more will basically [...]

Musgrave’s Anti-Abortion Hit Squad

ari | April 29, 2009

Despite the fact that, at least in the Interior West, the Republican crusade against abortion has cost the party its political dominance, some Republicans are hell-bent on continuing that push.
As “Bob’s Blog” from the Coloradoan points out:
[Former Congress Member] Musgrave was defeated soundly in 2008 by Democrat Betsy Markey. She was hired earlier this year [...]

Give it another week, then panic

drunkablog | April 28, 2009

Forbes: “Experts say panic over Swine Flu is premature.”
(Look ma, I’m Taranto!)

Murders

drunkablog | April 28, 2009

In, roughly, this neighborhood, since 2006:
Sierra, Percy, 52, 3421 W. 39th Avenue,Rosales, Christopher, 27, 3739 Pecos StreetRodriguez, Alexander, 3950 Lowell BoulevardRetana-Arreola, Juan, 34, 3137 Vallejo #3,Mendez, Albert, 59, 4331 Lipan StreetMay, Sean, 37, 3333 West 36th AvenueGonzales, Dominic, 18, 4700 Beach CourtGerken, Laurna, 85, 3933 Lowell BoulevardArchuleta, David, 47, West 25th Avenue and Decatur Street
This [...]