REASON: How Does the D.C. Establishment Compensate You for Smashing Your Leg with a Diplomatic SUV? By Giving You a Jaywalking Ticket for a Faraway Intersection, Then Accusing You of “Jogging” Into the Vehicle. It’s almost like some kind of metaphor or something.
Archive for 2010
February 4, 2010
TWELVE INCHES OF GLOBAL WARMING: Sounds like a porn flick, but it’s a political ad. Nice try guys, but it’s no demonsheep. . . . .
RETRACTO THE CORRECTION ALPACA pays a call on Max Blumenthal of Salon. For a camelid, he’s surprisingly relentless.
UPDATE: Reader Stephen Clark writes: “I’ll say this, Breitbart’s Big Journalism embodies what I had in mind when some time back I suggested that the media and its coverage of news itself be the focus of coverage. PJM and Breitbart’s various projects have found for themselves a seemingly endless supply of good stories.”
JOHN HAWKINS interviews John Yoo about his new book, Crisis And Command.
AN ARMY OF MONICAS: Young and female in the Clinton White House.
PJTV IS LIVESTREAMING FROM THE TEA PARTY CONVENTION IN NASHVILLE. I’ll be there to join the coverage tomorrow, along with Helen.
SCOTT BROWN SWORN IN. Pic courtesy of C-SPAN2.
ANTICIPATING Pee Wee Herman.
GREG GUTFELD: Celebrities Who Make Kids Sick.
ON THE UPSIDE, THIS COULD JUMPSTART THE SEXBOT INDUSTRY: Fears of sexual frustration among workers in China. “Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China’s booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying. Guangdong, China’s export powerhouse, is home to about 30 million migrant workers, the most in the country. Many leave wives, husbands or children in their native villages to seek the higher wages factories pay compared with agricultural work.”
A ONE-OF-A-KIND car restoration project. “If you consult the history books, you’ll quickly find that Buick didn’t make pickup trucks in 1930. Buick did, however, build a rather jaunty coupe with a rumble seat which was known as the Model 56; one is pictured at right. Somewhere along the way, some farmer or rancher took a Buick Model 56 and replaced the trunk and rumble seat with a pickup bed, ‘kitbashing’ it into a work vehicle. I don’t know if the truck bed came from another vehicle or was scratch-built from sheet metal. I do know that whoever did the conversion was a true craftsman, if not an artist; the bed is integrated with the stock rear fenders so nicely that it looks like it came from the factory that way.”
UPDATE: From the comments:
We think this car was my grandfather’s. I just happened to click on this link through Instapundit today and was interested because my mother grew up in Kim, CO and my grandfather homesteaded there in the early 1900s and stayed in the Kim area until 1955 or so. I just got off the phone with him (he’ll be 97 in a couple of weeks and is as lucid and clear as anyone I know with a memory that is not to be reckoned with!) He is pretty sure it was his Buick that you have in your blog and he did the modifications to it. He told me that it was a “straight 8” and he did the pickup modifications during the war when there was tire rationing. They wouldn’t allow him new tires for the Coupe, but pickups were in demand and if it were a pickup, he could get tires for it. So he drove back to Kim and had the trunk cut off and put a pickup box on it, drove back to Trinidad, CO and applied for four tires and got them! He said that he didn’t put the ‘necker’s knob’ or the fan on, though. Those would have been added after he traded it a few years later for a Hudson!
I am sending him the pictures and the article today to confirm, but he sounded pretty sure that it was the Buick he owned and turned into a pickup. Such a coincidence that I would look at this article – he loves to talk about the past and we just had another lovely conversation and I learned just a little bit more about a man I think is an icon and should be in the history books! I always tell people that if there is anything they should do before they die, it’s to spend two hours with my grandfather. It would be an amazing lesson never to be found in the history books!
Interesting.
POLITICO: Democrats Protect Backroom Deals.
“BIGGUS DICKUS HAPPENS TO BE A PERSONAL FRIEND OF MINE. He comes from one of the noblest families in Wome. He has a wife, you know. Her name is . . . .”
ADVICE TO LAW STUDENTS: How not to ask for a job.
VERIZON: Droid Is For Men, Pre Is For Women.
JIM TREACHER KNEE-BREAKING UPDATE: “The Daily Caller has been told by federal law enforcement sources that the Secret Service was not involved, and is working to confirm that the driver of the vehicle which struck Jim Treacher was a State Department security employee.”
MEGAN MCARDLE: “There is a reason that unions kill merit pay, and it’s not because they just happened to solidify in an era when merit pay was out of fashion.”
WHY DOES TIME FLY AS YOU GET OLDER? My personal theory is that it doesn’t just seem that way — time really is speeding up. It’s just that when you’re young, you lack a baseline for comparison, but as you get older the change becomes more obvious. I eagerly await confirmation from physicists . . . .
BIZARRE PREGNANCY STORY OF THE YEAR: Oral Sex, a Knife Fight and Then Sperm Still Impregnated Girl. Despite her being born without a vagina.