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“He-cession?”
Reihan Salam, in last week’s Foreign Policy, argued that this recession represents “The Death of Macho.” She cites an unemployment rate that is hitting male workers much more severely than female, and criticizes a culture of high risk, high leverage tactics which she associates with the macho business culture.
Emu POTW: Taibbi’s Goldman Rant
For those of you who haven’t read Matt Taibbi’s scathing Rolling Stone commentary on Goldman Sachs, entitled, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” it’s well worth a look. In it, he refers to the banking behemoth as a “Great Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity.”
Drug Court Sympathetic to Affluent Frat Boy
Christopher Duncan of Copiague, NY is thanking his lucky stars that he was born a white, rich, child. This week, his lucky accident of birth earned him a free pass in a federal drug court that fell all over itself to spare him the humiliation of going to prison for knowingly breaking the law.
Mep Report #114
The Meppers Navigate Down a Brook/Stream/Tributary of Troubles; Deeeeoooo; Greg, Neil Gaiman, and Bathtubs; Storey’s Great Society, or All Maim All the Time; Mep Mayhem; Analog Memorials in a Digital Age; and Shakespeare Pays a Visit.
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Mexican Street Dealers Dying in Droves
The Modesto Bee told a heart-wrenching story last weekend of a young Tijuana meth dealer named Hector Rodriguez Estrada, who was killed in cold blood along with his pregnant girlfriend, by a rival gang attempting to seize his drug turf. The story gives a face to the deteriorating social system in many parts of Mexico, in which cities are morphing into nothing more than shooting galleries between rival cartels.
An idea whose time has come…?
Arizona plans to allow concealed guns in bars. NRAers rejoice!
Yes, it’s true. If there’s anything more charming than drunk people beating each other up, it’s drunk people blowing each other away.
Nice work, Arizona. Next up: allowing people to carry lit candles into gas storage facilities. It’s just common sense, right?
Maniacal British Bobbies Waterboard Pot Smugglers
In the “Countries That Shouldn’t Emulate America” category, comes the tale of six of London’s finest metro police. After apprehending a couple suspects who were carrying a large weed shipment, the officers decided to seize the property of the suspects, and give them the old Dick Cheney workover for good measure.
Drone Aircraft to Patrol Canadian Border
Look out, Canadians… Skynet is now online.
The US Border Patrol is preparing to deploy a ‘Predator B’ unmanned drone aircraft along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, presumably to detect drug growing and smuggling operations along the US-Canadian border.