Daily Archives: January 15, 2012
The Year in Beer in Minnesota | Minnesota Public Radio News
One of the nice surprises of moving up here is the good variety of microbrews up here. I haven’t had them all but am a big fan of Shell and Surly beers. Here is a sneak peek at the beer scene in Minnesota.
Occupy the GOP | Jay Bookman
Strange. It has finally occurred to the GOP, parts of it anyway, that their unconditional support for folks making money *might* actually lead to harm and undemocratic practices. Weird, I knew that by the age of five. Guess being raised by reasonable people makes a difference.
Granted, this may all be election year stunts and soon forgotten, but it is odd to be on the same side of an economic discussion with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Check it out here.
Scumbag — Joe Paterno says he didn’t know how to handle Jerry Sandusky abuse report – ESPN
So, if you are Joe Paterno, you get to walk around as a free man with thousands, if not tens of thousands of people defending you and fighting to get your old job back.
Why? I honestly could not tell you.
If you are the average person, say, in charge of a few employees in a small shop. Say you found out from a reporting employee that they just saw another employee in a company restroom having forced sex with a pre-teen.
First, most of you would ask the idiot why thy didn’t try to stop it.
Secondly, you’d call the cops. Hell, call ANYBODY. Even NAMBLA probably has standards this violates. That’s right, I’ll say it. Even pedophiles don’t pull this crap in public. At least, if they do they sure as hell aren’t getting caught doing it.
Third, you follow up on the case.
Also, fourth, you do everything in your power to no longer be responsible for the character and activities of a child rapist.
What you do NOT do is wait a couple months after it turns out you barely did ANY of the aforementioned things, is try to say you sat on your hands and did not protect children because you really weren’t clear on what the policy was”.
Policy. He let a scumbag in his employee physically abuse children and didn’t do much about it because he wasn’t clear on the policy.
That, and, oh damn, he’s got cancer.
If you cannot do your job, which, let’s be fair, is to develop, train, educate, and KEEP KIDS SAFE! because of your guilt cancer, then QUIT!
But first, report the incident(s) and KEEP reporting and checking to make sure another child doesn’t get raped by your underling.
Don’t talk to me about “poor” Joe Paterno. He’s as guilty as the guy doing the acts.
What’s Behind A Temper Tantrum? Scientists Deconstruct The Screams : Shots – Health Blog : NPR
Interesting news on the science and rationale for tantrums.
Obama’s new approach to war chalks up another win | StarTribune.com
Yes, this is old.
Yet, given this is an election year, still relevant.
There are two trends that always seem to befuddle me. Republicans are given this assumed image that they are great for capitalism and effective war leaders.
It isn’t true though.
Economically, the average American fares better under Democratic administrations, as well as the general economy itself.
Wars? FDR beat the Nazis, Reagan conquered Grenada.
Bush got us into Iraq and Obama got our troops out of there. Not a clean victory, but it made up for the false reasons we went in there.
Granted, Nixon got us out of Vietnam, which Johnson mismanaged. Given the crap that mess was, call it a draw.
So, you are more apt to get into a brushfire war with a Third World nation and fight to a draw under the GOP and lose money and your savings with it. What is the reason to vote for these guys again?
The Ascent of Money | Watch Online | PBS Video
PBS took a stab at the history of our modern economy. I am not going to endorse everything the series says, but it is a good purview of what goes on in our complicated world of dollars and cents, not to mention all those other important currencies.