Monday, April 29, 2013

This week in strange strange strange

A trickle-down mystery: Believe it or not, over the weekend police in Newtown found an abandoned house with 200 to 300 gallons of - and this is the truth - urine.
We'll eschew the obvious puns, but suffice to say according to the authorities it's not illegal so why drain local resources. Sorry, we couldn't help it.

Monday, April 22, 2013

The 60% solution


So it has happened, the post Newtown gun legislation has been defeated U.S. Senate. And now as before, 40% of the gun sales in this country (i.e. gun shows and over the Internet) will go on with no background checks. But that begs the question; in what other context would the Senate and House find such a 40% gap acceptable regarding the safety of their own families? Would it be okay if the FAA only inspected 40% of the airplanes for safety, or if the FDA Left 40% of our food uninspected? Would the NRA devotees in the US Congress feel safe if the airlines only screened 60% of the luggage going on board our flights? Probably not.

 President Obama was spot on when he said to those who would consider this a victory “a victory for what a victory for whom?” Well those against this legislation, ignoring the actual wording of the bill might well answer; for the survival of the Second Amendment. Really? How about considering the survival of our country’s second grades.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Real Real News


April 15, 2013 is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alice Lewin  Bender, The music school at Yale '34. She is the lady in whose memory the Chabad House at Yale will be named. That is a singular honor for a woman of Yale, ahead of her time, of her time, but will be remembered in these times and for future times.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

This weekend dumb da dumb dumb

Donald Trump has dropped his suit against Bill Maher when he suggested that due to the obvious physical similarities, and in full birther spirit, how could people not consider the possibility of a goodly amount of orangutan DNA in Mr. Trump. In any event Trumps reason for discontinuing legal action is because he now claims he has a sense of humor. We kinda sorta believe it's because he knew, at least after his lawyers told him, that there was no way in hell he was going to Dar-WIN in court. Anyway, we are glad to see Mr. Trump is undergoing some sort of personal evolution of his species.

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