Steven Den Beste posts about a new fashion for men. Falsies. He has art, too. My reaction? You'd think the falsies would be installed a bit farther south than shown in the photo. You know.
Below the waist.
A hilarious story
from Sgt Mom about childrearing in the mid to early boomer years. My own mother was also a tad unconventional, having run away from home at 16 to join the Marines during WWII. Yeah, she was a top sergeant, and I suppose she really did wear combat boots, even though she was a cook. No, I didn't call her "Top". (But she outranked my high school's vice principal, which came in handy, once, when he tried to use his Marine Corps experience to bluster his way through an argument about discipline.) She once told the mother of a fifteen year old girl in the neighborhood (the eldest child of that family, and a girl with respect to whom I had visions of a romantic and/or sexual nature at the time), that parents should make all of their child rearing mistakes on their oldest child and then throw them out. That comment did not assist me in my attempted conquest, since I immediately became persona non grata in the household of my intended.
Via Instantman, of course.
Adventures in Transportation Security
Thousands of post-holiday travelers were delayed Sunday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a screener for the Transportation Security Administration was discovered asleep at his post.
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The screener -- discovered napping at about 6 a.m. -- apparently was asleep for between eight and 30 minutes, Parker said.
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As for the employee who fell asleep, Blunk said there will be an investigation before any decision is made on repercussions.
Question: Just what is it that is going to be investigated? Whether the guy fell asleep? You think they might have investigated that before they shut down the airport. In fact, the very fact that they shut down the airport is pretty good evidence that the people in charge of SeaTac security were convinced he fell asleep. Now what else might there by to investigate? Why, when or for how long the guy fell asleep? Who cares?
If the TSA or the FAA or whoever believed that there was enough there to shut down the damn airport, then they certainly believe that there is enough there to fire this guy on the spot. So why didn't they?
Via Drudge