September 2010
8 posts
Dos and Don'ts for Mall Kiosk Workers
1) When you do your little step-out-ambush move to try and foist your overpriced beauty product on a woman and she, startled, says, “no, thank you,” DON’T stand out there and admire her ass for ten seconds as she walks away.
2) Especially DON’T try to cover for it by acting like you’re trying to ambush me, too, ‘cause I’m just going to shake my head and...
Members of Stryker Combat Brigade in Afghanistan... →
The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The...
Purple Hearts Elusive for Traumatic Brain Injuries →
Commanders turned down some soldiers despite well-documented blast wounds that wrenched their minds, altered their lives and wracked their families.
The Army twice denied a Purple Heart for Sgt. Nathan Scheller, though the aftereffects from two roadside explosions in Iraq have left him with lasting cognitive problems, according to the Army’s own records.
…well, maybe the...
Emergency rooms cont'd →
Ezra:
There are certain facts that Americans hear about the Canadian system — that they often wait weeks or even months for elective surgeries, for instance — and they just can’t believe that modern human beings would allow themselves to be put through such misery. But by the same token, there are facts that people in other countries hear about our system — that we...
Pastor "Weighing Plans" to Burn Qurans →
I’m too tired to properly state just how pissed off I am about this.
A Florida pastor told CNN on Tuesday that while his congregation still plans to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the church is “weighing” its intentions.
Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, who was interviewed on CNN’s...
How to tell college is back in session:
1) Walmart has about twice as many people as its usually-high normal.
2) The beer aisle and the condom aisle are packed to the point of impassibility.
3) There’s a cloud of college-age kids of both genders hovering around the condom aisle who don’t really want to be seen as “in line for the condom aisle,” but who clearly don’t want to ruin their plans for the...
Summer Songs
(This was the less important project I lost with my corrupted flash drive. Originally it was going to be bigger, better and more interesting, with one post per year. Now you get the crappy, shorter and cramped version. Originally it was going to be posted the last weekend in August. Now you get it before I go to bed the morning of September 1.)
For me, music is really defined, in a lot of...