It isn't that you can't find a place to pee in Ireland. It's that the usual suspects suffer from wadded stepins because they're short of officially designed, approved, and supervised elimination stations along the new wrong-side highways.
My Celtic warrior ancestors spin in agony. "Wot's wrong," they cry from their martyr graves, "with just pissing on the nearest Black and Tan?"
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Sep 16, 2010
Sep 15, 2010
Jack Shelley of WHO
The TMR morbidity content is elevated this evening, but another man from the era when broadcast journalism contained journalism has died.
Jack Shelly, 98, was a fixture on 50,000-watt WHO for decades. In 1944 at Bastogne he interviewed Iowans in combat. A year later in the Pacific he was the first to record interviews with B-29 fliers returning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is stretching things only a little to say that for some 30 years, Iowa and much of the Midwest stopped whatever they were doing at 12;30 p.m. to listen to a deep, melodious voice reporting the news of the day and resisting every urge to report his opinion of the news.
It was a lucky young reporter who had the privilege of knowing him.
Jack Shelly, 98, was a fixture on 50,000-watt WHO for decades. In 1944 at Bastogne he interviewed Iowans in combat. A year later in the Pacific he was the first to record interviews with B-29 fliers returning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It is stretching things only a little to say that for some 30 years, Iowa and much of the Midwest stopped whatever they were doing at 12;30 p.m. to listen to a deep, melodious voice reporting the news of the day and resisting every urge to report his opinion of the news.
It was a lucky young reporter who had the privilege of knowing him.
Edwin Newman
Dead at 91, and we have lost a premier defender of the English language as a vehicle for the exchange of rational thought.
Or, as Wiki says, an old-school journalist with a "fierce belief that degrading the language was damaging the nation."
RIP.
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Or, as Wiki says, an old-school journalist with a "fierce belief that degrading the language was damaging the nation."
RIP.
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Kansas Concealed Carry, Concealed Meaning
It's probably wrong to come down too hard on the New Kansas. Jayhawks had pretty much solved the Sibelius problem even before shipping her off to be one of His Obamaness's unicorn herders. It has become shall-issue, and the new law seems reasonable enough.*
However, as I was digging through some administrative rules on concealed carry around the nation, I ran across this from the Kansas attorney general:
The Concealed Carry Unit (Unit) of the Attorney General’s Office (AG) is tasked with the administration, interpretation and to a quasi degree, enforcement of the KPFPA. (Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act.)
How does a cop or prosecutor enforce a law to a "quasi" degree? That kind of language from people with the power to toss me in jail makes me think of Kafka's prisoner.
But maybe the law clerk who wrote it was just having a bad day. Or maybe it was a warning to other law enforcement agencies that they would have to do the heavy lifting. Still, quasi makes me queasy.
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*At least reasonable enough so long as we are stuck with the notion that it is okay to require a permit to exercise Constitutional rights.
The Concealed Carry Unit (Unit) of the Attorney General’s Office (AG) is tasked with the administration, interpretation and to a quasi degree, enforcement of the KPFPA. (Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act.)
How does a cop or prosecutor enforce a law to a "quasi" degree? That kind of language from people with the power to toss me in jail makes me think of Kafka's prisoner.
But maybe the law clerk who wrote it was just having a bad day. Or maybe it was a warning to other law enforcement agencies that they would have to do the heavy lifting. Still, quasi makes me queasy.
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*At least reasonable enough so long as we are stuck with the notion that it is okay to require a permit to exercise Constitutional rights.
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