Tuesday links, a cute cat video, followed by vigorous cussing at WordPress
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013- Hey, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals says it’s okay to flip off a cop. Not necessarily smart, but okay. You can tell the nice officer that between taser zaps. (H/T to JW for the good news.)
- And speaking of police: Rapid DNA: a new tool coming soon to a thug near you. (H/T to J for the bad news.)
- Oh, c’mon. Did somebody in Congress really tell off Freedom Feens? Nawwwww. Really? It’s true Congressional staffers have committed some pro-government vandalizing at Wikipedia, so who knows?
- Well, that’s one way to get your stolen cellphone back.
- A French court has just thrown out Hollande’s tax on the rich. Maybe Gerard Depardieu won’t have to become a Russian after all. Hm. But a 13 percent tax rate …
- I’m late getting to this one, but you should really read MamaLiberty’s “There’s an F.B.I. in My Soup”.
- Late on this one, too. (Sigh; last week was busy.) But a big thank you to Jim Bovard for giving such a big plug to Rats!, the anti-snitch book — despite his writerly horror about giving work away for free. He was waiting for me to get the book on Amazon — something I haven’t done yet.
And now here’s a real cat burglar:
Thanks to H for the laugh. And if — once again — WordPress strips out the video embed code at the moment this blog entry goes live, here’s where you can see what WP stole: http://biggeekdad.com/2011/05/cat-burglar/.
WordPress has apparently for a long time had a “feature” (not a bug) that removes videos when you use their WISIWYG blog editing function. I never use that. Their latest upgrade (sic) has expanded that lovely feature to the editing function I do use — which regularly ruins posts that I schedule for later appearance, like this one, which is going live in the middle of the night.
Thank you SO much, Dear People of WordPress, for deciding that I really don’t need to post cute cat videos after all.
The rest of you, don’t worry. I’ve learned to save the video codes. Once a blog has gone live, WordPress does kindly allow me to put it back in. So you won’t suffer a shortage of adorable kitties and cute puppies for long. (I know that’s why you really come here, after all.)
January 8th, 2013
Came across this on a web comic I read… And figured it just HAD to be posted here:
January 8th, 2013
OK… so, no embedded html. Try #2, just pasting in the direct url:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130108.gif
January 8th, 2013
Yeah, that’s good, CCC.
January 8th, 2013
Thanks, Claire. From the response I’ve gotten so far, the “…FBI in my soup” will have to join the ever growing list of things I need to turn into novels.
Why couldn’t I have started this 50 years ago? I’ll have to live to be 200 to have any hope of finishing all of it. :)
January 8th, 2013
When I was blogging, .gov visitors and commenters made up a rather significant percentage of the total. Web site still gets a lot of nasa.gov traffic for some strange reason.
January 8th, 2013
Rapid DNA takes all lunch? You mean it isn’t like on “CSI?”
Creative way to get a cell phone back, but I think I’d have done it in a way that didn’t involve giving the guy my home address.
January 8th, 2013
I used to like WordPress. Not sure now, and if I start blogging again, I’ll probably use something else. The vid embed thing is puzzling, as I can’t think of a reason for an editor function to just remove things. However, maybe Oliver (?) can look into a WP vid plugin?
Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and search for video, there’s a ton of ‘em.
ML, nice story. Secession might be the only way to escape the left-coastian “Progressive” agenda, without having a complete collapse. But it would be very messy.
January 8th, 2013
Speaking of secession, Kevin, of The Smallest Minority blog, linked to Would States Secede to Protect Their Citizens? Well, I certainly have no hope of that. I’ve read arguments that secession is not allowed, as part of whatever agreement or compact is made when a state joins the Union. Well, pshaw! The whole point of it is that you’re declaring you’re no longer bound by that anyway. I once wrote a pretty decent comment about that, someplace. Well, some nice quotes in that piece anyways.
January 8th, 2013
Modern-day states seceding from the U.S. is exactly as legal as the Revolution.
I.e. “Winners make the rules.”