“Cause they’ve invented Robomower
Golf-course owners who use robots to cut grass at night will be able to reduce labor costs and accommodate more players on their courses during the day.
(the title is merely meant to show that we had the kids soley out of love… awwww)
The New York Times has a piece about the ultimate teenage drama, My So-Called Life.
Not that I’m endorsing this writer’s conclusions. I am a big fan of both The O.C. and Everwood
However, neither can match the ability of MSCL to truly capture the utter pathos and everyday drama of teenage life. Where is Brian Krakow today?
(And the retort for you leftists:) Only 1.7 million left to go!
Sorry, make that 1.6 million: Revisions to payrolls showed a stronger jobs market than previously thought. Companies added 205,000 jobs in January and February, instead of the 118,000 reported last month.
Couple of other interesting things:
First, Unions help GWB: Retailers added 47,000 jobs last month, led by the striking California grocery workers agreeing to a new contract and returning to work.
Second, unemployment went up, but due to worker optimism: The jobless rate, compiled in a separate survey of households, inched up by 0.1 percentage point from 5.6 percent in February. That’s because more job seekers renewed their searches last month, but were unsuccessful.
An article from a writer for the Village Voice who covered Richard Clarke leaving the Whitehouse fold a year ago was used by Drudge and others to support the Clarke bashing episode. This is a good article for lefties and righties since it discusses people getting crushed in the partisan war of words and why they often clam up and dissapear.
The phone rang promptly at 8 a.m. A colleague in Alexandria was on the line. “The RNC is sending one of your columns to everyone,” he said. There was some concern for me in his voice.
The date was Monday, March 22. Thanks to the Web and drudgereport.com, I was about to begin my week-long career as an unwitting hit man for the right.
Around midday Monday, before grokking that it was smarter to clam up and hide rather than risk public speaking, I did a brief interview with a Pittsburgh radio station. The show’s assistant called and I told her the column had been written a year ago. “Uh, what? Oh, I see, yeah,” she said, breaking into nervous laughter.
The spot lasted about three minutes. …
It was refreshing to see Richard Clarke on The Daily Show the other night commiserating with John Stewart about the content of his book being maligned on both ends of American politics. Only the last part of the book covers his interaction with Bush and Condi, and that he didn’t intend to be a partisan attack.
Today’s reason: in bed with the religious right and taking it…
Among many other kowtows to a vocal and virulent religious minority, W has asked the FDA to change the warning label on condoms to include data that says condoms are not a guarantee against HPV — the virus that causes genital warts. He’s being pressured to do this from the fanatics at Focus on the Family.
The absurdities behind this are numerous (like the fact that no teenager is going to read that tiny print anyway) but the biggest one is that if you are going to have sex condoms drastically reduce the risk of HPV transmission — not to mention that catching a STD increases your risk for catching HPV, so using the condom does double-duty if you are already STD free. Bush and FotF actally believe that including this warning is a good scare tactic and teenagers will be forced to abstain from sex until they are married.
Officials at the federal FDA concede that boiling down a “very extensive and complicated” body of scientific literature on HPV into a few words on a condom label is no easy task.
