Sunday Dog Park Blogging — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Edition
Sunday morning at the park with my tree-climbing, treat-whoring dog.
...read moreSwill
Charming. Diet wine, pitched to women by playing to their insecurities: This off-the-mark targeting reaches its full height with White Lie, Beringer Blass’ new lower-calorie, lower-alcohol wine for women. The marketing of this Chardonnay revolves around the maxim “a little white lie never hurt anyone.” Minor fibs like “My hair is naturally this color,” are [...]
...read moreEchidne of the Snakes explains it all for you
Echidne would like you to read her series on the gender gap in earnings. It’s quite long, and quite dense, but also quite good. Update: The Guardian reports that one in five UK firms responding to a government study were breaking equal-pay laws, often routinely paying men more than women in the same job.
...read moreWhoopsie.
Scalia’s absence from the Roberts swearing-in explained: He was on a judicial junket. The place: the Ritz-Carlton resort in Bachelor Gulch, CO. The event: a legal seminar. The sponsor: the Federalist Society.
...read moreFriday Cat Blogging
No FRT from me until I perhaps get with the times and get some kind of device to play mp3s on. And maybe some mp3s, for that matter. God, I’m so uncool. Anyway, some cat pics!
...read moreBreaking news
CNN is reporting that John Kerry is calling for a filibuster. Call your Senators and ask them to support him.
...read more“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
Er, well, maybe the White House could have, because they were warned: In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, the White House received detailed warnings about the storm’s likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show. A 41-page assessment by the Department [...]
...read moreLove letter from the Prada Pope
The long-anticipated first encyclical from the Prada Pope is out. And surprisingly, it’s actually kind of warm and fuzzy. Who knew that the Grand Inquisitor, the Pope who’s conducting a witch hunt against gays in the priesthood, would dedicate his first encyclical to love?
...read moreUSOC pulls skeleton coach from Olympics
The USOC has ruled that skeleton coach Tim Nardiello, who was recently reinstated by an arbitrator after accusations of sexual harassment from several female sliders, will not be going to Turin after all. The United States Olympic Committee refused yesterday to allow Tim Nardiello to coach the skeleton team at the Turin Olympics. The decision [...]
...read moreYour priorities are showing
From Broadsheet: looks like the FDA doesn’t like fat chicks: an advisory panel of the FDA has endorsed over-the-counter sales of orlistat, otherwise known as the prescription diet pill Xenical: An FDA advisory panel voted 11-3 late Monday to recommend that the regulatory agency approve the nonprescription form of orlistat, which Glaxo would market as [...]
...read moreFirst World Problems
So I’m trying to sell my apartment and need to get it really clean. I am not really the person to do it, since I have a bad tendency to get distracted or wander off and do something else while “cleaning.” So I figured I’d hire a cleaning service. I used to have a housekeeper, [...]
...read moreSenate Judiciary Committee Votes on Alito
The committee split along party lines, with the 10 Republicans voting for and the 8 Democrats voting against. Only one Democratic Senator, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, has said that he will vote for Alito when the vote comes to the full Senate. Harry Reid has promised a fight, though it’s apparently unclear whether a filibuster [...]
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