Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Was she their first choice?


What qualifies a person to present a letter to the UN expressing the hopes, dreams and aspirations of a people?

Well, for the Palestinians it would appear the best qualification is to give birth to four terrorists.

Mother from hell launches PA drive | Power Line

Thursday, September 1, 2011

What Budget Crisis?



"It must be the recession that's catching up with their budgets," said Allan B. Taylor, chairman of the State Board of Education.

Gee - ya think?

We have some very silly rules in Connecticut. One of them is that the state mandates basic levels of spending for education. It took monumental budget problems for the state legislature to make a change that allows towns to cut budgets if enrollment declines, but only under limited circumstances. That's right - up until this year even if the number of students went down spending had to go up. It's the law.

Now 11 school districts are being informed by the state that their spending levels don't meet expectations.

Connecticut is doomed.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Alcohol, a Bridge and low tide...

... What could possibly go wrong?



Amazingly unhurt, and apparently not arrested if YouTube comments are to be believed.

Here's where Mr. Genius almost made it to the Darwin Awards. Better luck next time, sport.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Stunning Splitscreen Video

This video was shot using smartphones. It's a rather brilliant split screen presentation. I can't imagine how many hours were spent editing this. This video won a $10,000 grand prize in a contest run by Nokia. See the other 7 on Vimeo.



Splitscreen: A Love Story from JW Griffiths on Vimeo.



H/T The Moderate Voice

Monday, June 13, 2011

June 12, 1942

Anne Frank started her diary on June 12, 1942.

Her last entry was on August 1, 1944.