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Clearing the Browser Tabs – ‘Twas the Thursday Before Snowpocalypse Edition

Jimmie | December 23, 2010 | Comments (0)

The Washington, DC area is all atwitter about the possibility of a sizeable snowstorm due to arrive late on Christmas Day. I have heard forecasts calling for accumulation up to 12 inches, which has more than a few people on the edge of sheer panic. I suppose I can understand their reaction. After last year’s Snowpocalyptic winter, even the hint of another big storm brings back memories of days upon days of poorly-plowed roads, potholes the size of Smart Cars, and battles royal over the last pack of toilet paper in the local 7-11.

Don’t laugh. We don’t normally get a lot of snow here, though more than most cities in our general latitude. Our yearly average is between 16 and 22 inches (at least over the past 40-59 years, which is about what New York City gets) and we’re used to that being spread out over a few snowstorms. When one comes along and dumps half of that or more on us all at once, well, it does cause a little dysfunction. We’re not exactly Mammoth Mountain.

And now, links!

I don’t have the words to express how much loathing I feel toward parents who put their own “self-actualization” above the happiness of their children. I won’t give anything away, but I will say that their kids deserve better.
Senator Tom Coburn, alleged fiscal hawk, says, “There will be no more big spending bills”. Well, no more beyond the four big spending bills he let get past him in the lame duck session, I guess.
Sometimes, unintended consequences just aren’t that difficult to predict. And surely this little initiative can’t possibly go awry, can it?
The New York Times: Tea Party people are not a fit audience for a Supreme Court Justice.
Worst. Congress. EVAH!
What is American Exceptionalism and why does our President run from it so often?
The Democrat-dominated state of Oregon has learned a valuable lesson: If you jack up taxes on “the rich”, then “the rich” go elsewhere and you end up with less money. As we used to say when I was in the fifth grade, “No D’oy!”