Wednesday, May 29, 2013

New York City FBI Agent Robbed of M-4 Assault Weapon and His Auto (Again) - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

New York City FBI Agent Robbed of M-4 Assault Weapon and His Auto (Again) - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

The New York Post came up with a typically clever headline to lead off a story about an FBI agent who had his car and rifle stolen last night in Ozone Park, an upper middle-class neighborhood in the borough of Queens. Calling the weapon a "dolt-action rifle" was about right.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Is There an Un-subsidized Tesla Model S in Your Future? - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Is There an Un-subsidized Tesla Model S in Your Future? - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

My point is that there are many advantages to having a vehicle which helps the owner do things (often at less cost and damage to the environment) other than drive down Hollywood Boulevard feeling more pious than a Prius owner. You can fit more stuff in a pickup truck than you can any sedan and that means less trips to the vendor, less fuel burned, and less hiring of bigger trucks as delivery vehicles for products you might need to manage a household.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Teams with Tumblr CEO David Karp to Talk the Deal - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Teams with Tumblr CEO David Karp to Talk the Deal - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

High school dropout like Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp doesn't have such mundane concerns. According to the IT website smh.com, Karp once said he didn't want to be "gobbled up by big media company." In a Hollywood Reporter interview, Karp told users "we're not turning purple" and then he punctuated his statement with an F-Bomb.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Possible Political Murder Stirs National Elections in Pakistan - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Possible Political Murder Stirs National Elections in Pakistan - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

All told, 150 people have died in a Pakistani election that sometimes seemed to favor the bullet over the ballot.

The top man of the TPI, Imran Khan, is a nationally idolized soccer star whose reform party has surprised the nation by becoming its third largest. Khan has accused rival MQM (Muttahida Quami Movement) of sending two men to shoot PTI Party Vice-President Ms. Hussein to death just outside her home in the affluent Karachi Defence suburb.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Syracuse City Schools in Crisis - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Syracuse City Schools in Crisis - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Until educators, parents, politicians, and just plain folk can speak honestly about the problem, the best solution for parents will be to get their kids out of the ghetto as soon as possible. I know you're not supposed to say "ghetto" but it's the title of a particularly forlorn Akon song which really explains the deal about how it really is

Thursday, May 9, 2013

What's Cooking in Boston? The Tsarnaev Saga

SCENE ONE.
TAM TSARNAEV’S small apartment in Boston.  There is a young woman dressed in a burkha attending to a cook stove in the kitchen.  Only her eyes are visible as she stirs food into a bowl.  There is a side door to the kitchen which suddenly bursts open.  A man enters, smiling and shadow-boxing,.  This is TAM TSARNAEV.

TAM TSARNAEV
(with a flourish, enjoying himself)
What’s cooking, Katherine?  It smells so good.

KATHERINE RUSSELL
I call it ‘IED delight.”  It’s an American dish.  Ha-ha!

TAM TSARNAEV
Ho-ho-ho!  You make joke, Katherine. 

KATHERINE RUSSELL
Yes, I make joke, Tam.

TAM TSARNAEV
Don’t make joke of me, Katherine.  I will slap you again.

KATHERINE RUSSELL
Where were you, Tam?

TAM TSARNAEV
I will slap you with left hook, maybe with uppercut.

(TAM TSARNAEV shadow-boxes around the kitchen, throwing jabs, left hooks, rights)

TAM TSARNAEV
Good Muslim woman does not ask husband questions.  How about some rice? I’m hungry.

KATHERINE RUSSELL
I cannot make rice.  I cannot find my pressure cooker.

TAM TSARNAEV
Don’t worry about the pressure cooker.  I will buy you a new pressure cooker.

KATHERINE RUSSELL
But this one is the 6th pressure cooker you’ve bought for me this month.  What happens to them?  Where are my pressure cookers going? 

(TUNE IN DAILY AS THE DRAMA CONTINUES.  LEARN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PRIVILEGED UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PHYSICIAN'S DAUGHTER DONS A BURKHA TO PLEASE HER VOLATILE HUSBAND--AND IN THE PROCESS LOSES HER PRESSURE COOKERS.)