(Our precious Duck football team got their collective butts kicked yesterday afternoon by a highly motivated Arizona team in Tucson. And along with that loss went our chances for a BCS championship game, PAC-12 Championship game, and our chance to put our thumb on our nose and wiggle our fingers at every football team on the East Coast. It wasn't even close. The Wildcats plowed through us like snakes through a blackberry patch. Final score: 42-16. Ouch. But as we sit here licking our wounds and preparing chips and dip for the Pity Party sure to come, we Duck Fans remain loyal to the team. The Ducks gave us a very exciting year, and we're still going to finished the season with a 9-2 record, assuming we beat the OSU Beavers next Friday night. But I digress ...)
- Have you heard, or even actually used, the cute little app called SnapChat? Apparently it's a little app that lets users send photos of gawdknowswhat to other people and then within minutes the sent picture just disappears forever. Pretty handy for those of us who post drunken half-naked pictures of our latest post-football parties on Facebook. The app was invented by a 23-year-old Stanford student named Eric Spiegel. Well it turns out that this little app is so cool that some really rich dude named Zuckerburg offered Eric 3 Billion Dollars for it. That's Billion, with a "B." $3,000,000,000. But Eric turned the offer down flat. Nope. Not gonna sell it. Mark Morford explores the reason behind Eric's refusal in "13 Reasons To Turn Down $3 Billion"
- The United States government has issued a warning to all Americans who wish to travel to North Korea for vacation: "Don't." Well that certainly makes a lot of sense to me, and in spite of all those plans I made to travel to Pyongyang next Spring, I will heed the warning. At first I reasoned that the US government was merely trying to keep Dennis Rodman home where we can keep an eye on him, but then I found out that an 85-year-old Korean War veteran named Merrill Newman had been "detained" by North Korean authorities while he and his wife were on vacation in Pyongyang. Will someone tell me what the hell was he doing there? What, Club Med in Siberia was all booked up? Good grief.
- As I said before, I hate George Zimmerman.
- Who says big, huge, enormous, corporations don't have heart? Take McDonalds, for example. McDonalds understands it's $7 per hour employees might be a bit money stressed this holiday season, so they've offered advice on the corporate website to help their people save money. They advise, for example, that employees sell their Christmas presents for cash. And what do employees do if their company doesn't do much for their employees? Help themselves, bygawd. A Walmart store in Canton, Ohio is holding a food drive to help out employees whose wages might not be enough to pay for food. Don't that just make you feel warm all over?
- Back in 2005, Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker, wrote of filibusters:
Absent Senate filibusters, the anti-lynching bills of 1922, 1935, and 1938 would have become law, bringing federal force to bear against racist violence and possibly allowing the civil-rights movement to achieve its victories decades earlier; direct election of the President would have replaced the electoral college in time for the 1972 election; and nearly all Americans would now be covered by a program of national health insurance. Now shift to 2013 and the Democrats have pulled what someone named "the nuclear option," and filibustering is now practically a thing of the past. This is good, right? Right. As long as Democrats hold the majority. (Click Here)
- California now has the largest number of people without health insurance in the nation, according to the California Healthcare Foundation. More than 20% of Californians are uninsured. Paul Krassner writes "Healthcare Is So Horrible Here That Thousands Rely On Free Clinics - And You're Fined If You Don't Use Prescription Drugs." Long title, but an interesting article.
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| Happy Thanksgiving |
- I never have liked John Stossel. Uppity in-your-face pretend know-it-all, Stossel is consistently not only wrong, but irritatingly so. He's a perfect fit for Fox News. Thursday morning on something called "Fox and Friends" Stossel shared a clip of him sitting on a New York City sidewalk with a fake beard and a cardboard sign asking people for help. He said he just begged for an hour, but added "If I did this for an eight-hour day I would've made 90 bucks. Twenty-three thou for a year. Tax free." Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who just recently bought a $4 million home in Greenwich, "gasped in horror at the prospect of poor people earning $23,000 a year." Their conclusion? Don't give homeless people money, it only encourages them. To do what? Eat?
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