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Back in the olden days

The days before Chrysler went on the dole. I liked those knit dresses, too.
Via Dustbury.

Do you really need a college degree?

When I was young, the answer was unambiguously yes. And, indeed, in terms of future employment, as recorded here, with one you have been much more likely to be employed and remain so since 1992. Leaving aside how long it took you to recoup the money spent on getting one in the first place.
Now, ideally, [...]

Put it in neutral, stupid

The key to solving these alleged runaway Toyotas with their supposedly stuck accelerator pedals, is to shift the transmission into neutral. Let the engine race, if it will, while the car slows down until you can pull over.
Instead, this latest fellow reportedly told the 911 dispatcher he was afraid to do that ’cause the car [...]

Poker instead of recess

Scott will like this one. PC rules the public school day in most ways, except here recently when a rainy morning canceled recess for Mr. B.’s class. Instead, they played games at their tables and one friend taught him and another kid how to play poker.
Texas Holdem, to be exact. He said the teacher thought [...]

Spring in Israel

Photo by Snoopy-the-Goon’s son. Taken in the Angels (Malachim) Forest.

Legacy media funny

It’s a putdown of the InterTubes from 1995 and it’s from Newsweak. Who else?

Sun Pillar

Over Mt. Jelm and the Wyoming Infrared Observatory.

Throw Da Bums Out

Vote For Mr. Rhythm
Music by Ralph Rainger, Words by Leo Robin, Al Siegel
Vote for Mr. Rhythm –
Raise up your voice,
And vote for Mr. Rhythm,
The people’s choice.
You’ll be happy with him –
Take my advice,
And vote for Mr. Rhythm;
I’m voting twice!
Ev’ryone’s a friend of his;
His campaign slogan is,
“Change Your Woe
Into a Wo-De-Ho!”
Vote for Mr. Rhythm –
Let [...]

Children of the Holocaust

The best-known photographs of liberated concentration camp inmates are of adults. But hundreds of thousands of Jewish children were slain by the Nazis, often with their mothers, immediately upon arrival. Some were used as slave labor. Better off, perhaps, than these of the 180 survivors (52 of them younger than eight) at Auschwitz whom the [...]

LBJ: stranger than fiction

Seems old Lyndon Baines broke some laws for other than personal gain and one fellow is out to see him declared righteous for it, at least in Israel. LBJ, we hardly knew ye. Nor did your granddaughter, but she’s on the right path.