As a child I went to summer camp in Texas. I didn’t like it.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like this modern version, either, especially if I didn’t hablo the Inglés and didn’t know when (or if) my parents would be coming to take me home.
Time to call the congressional delegation again. Lord, are they gonna be tired of hearing from the O’Gradys.
“Go back to Ireland already before we put you in a camp,” they’ll mutter after hanging up. Ná bíodh eagla orm.
A comrade bites the Big Orange Bullet.
Seems the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette thinks more of the free-press-hating Il Douche than it does of its own editorial cartoonist.
Former editorial cartoonist, that is.
According to The Washington Post, the Pittsburgh paper’s management had begun regularly spiking Rob Rogers’ cartoons, many of which were critical of the country’s management. And as cartoonists tend to want to see their work published, while fascists tend to lack a sense of humor, well, matters came to a head, as they will.
It sucks to see an editorial cartoonist get the heave-ho after a quarter-century for doing his job. There aren’t that many of them left — hell, there aren’t that many newspapers left.
But good on Rob for sticking to his guns and hollering “Bullshit!” when he smelled some. The PP-G editorial page should include a complimentary scratch-and-sniff air freshener henceforth.
• Late update: Rob steps away from the drawing board for a moment to write a short piece for the NYT.
I suffered an allergic reaction to advanced technology this morning and went out for a much-needed refresher course in the advantages of stone knives and bearskins.
My Voodoo Wazoo dates to 2005, but is largely a creature of the previous millennium:
• Reynolds 853 main tubes with a Tange Infinity fork.
• Shimano 600 crank with a single 38-tooth chainring and a Salsa Crossing Guard.
• Seven-speed Shimano 105 derailleur.
• Seven-speed Shimano Hyperglide freewheel, 12-28T.
• Shimano Hyperglide Narrow chain.
• Seven-speed Shimano bar-con mounted on a Paul Components Thumbie.
• Shimano 600 hubs laced to Mavic Open Pro clincher rims.
• Continental CrossRide tires, 700×42.
• Vetta saddle liberated from a Team Crest Pinarello Prologo TT.
• Control Tech seat post from God only knows where.
• Easton EA50 stem and Cannondale Fire flat bar with cork grips.
• Real brake levers (that was actually the name of the company: Real).
• Avid Tri-Align cantilever brake (front) with KoolStop pads.
• Dia-Compe 986 canti (rear) with Dia-Compe pads.
• Actual straddle-wire-and-yoke setup for both.
• Time ATAC pedals.
There was none of your fancy “10-speeds,” nor your high-draulical brakificationist grand-doo and foofaraw, nossiree. And we had tubes in our goldurned tires, and we liked it!
Oh, to be sure, it was a little strenuous climbing in the 38×28, and I nearly got centerpunched in a blind corner by a lively young rapscallion riding one of your whatchacallem, “mountaineering bikes,” but all in all it was a pleasant reminder that “old” doesn’t always mean “useless.”
The economy is rocking, they say — but for whom?
“It’s a bit of a puzzle,” says Fed Chairman Jerome H. Powell. Do tell.
What we have here is an unholy convergence of people who are too lazy to golf, people who are too smart to spend their own money fleecing them, and people who are desperate to bring the Duke City a few jobs, even if they cost nearly $5 million of the public’s money and suck.
C’mon. We got golf out the wazoo for the chumps who enjoy spoiling a good walk. And everyone who likes to eat, drink and play games already does that, with their phones, in their cars. Our streets are their driving range. “Duck, hon’, here comes a GMC Titlist.”
This thing will follow the Beach Waterpark and the ART debacle into the Malodorous Dumpster of Bad Ideas and all the wrong people will make money. Ask any economist:
“Politicians dangle incentives because voters want them to. And voters want them to in large part because politicians say that incentives make a real difference. ‘The dirty big secret,’ said Greg LeRoy, the executive director of the group Good Jobs First, ‘is that they don’t.’ ”
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