Plat du jour--guest submission for election day

Found by Joanne.

Happy Bastille Day!

It's Bastille Day, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789--their 4th of July.

And happy anniversary to Helen and Rachel, and happy birthday to Johanna!

Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.

Perfect analogy

H/T to Helen Kramer

Happy Bastille Day!

It's Bastille Day, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789--their 4th of July.

And happy anniversary to Helen and Rachel, and happy birthday to Johanna!

Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.

Recent news round-up, Part 1

Good News

• Hungary says FBI chief insensitive, superficial on Holocaust Exactly. While there were Hungarians and citizens of a number of other countries who enthusiastically joined the campaign to eliminate Jews from Europe, it was Nazi Germany that created and mostly carried out the plan. 
• Woman strip-searched at Detroit airport settles lawsuit
• New Orleans going smoke-free in bars, other public places
• California county to pay man beaten by deputies on video
• New Cards for Medicare Recipients Will Omit Social Security Numbers
• New York Investigates Whether Boy Scouts’ Employment Practices Discriminated Against Gays

Bad News

• Judge Orders Hearing for 2 Chimps Said to Be ‘Unlawfully Detained’ While this order only requires there to be a hearing, I don't think non-humans should be getting human rights. Ironically, I know the judge who made this order.
• Pakistan cyber bill threatens free speech, privacy: rights groups

Plat du jour--guest submission

Someone from the Bronx.

Found by Joanne.

Plat du jour--guest submission

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A ballet dancer--found by Joanne.

Plat du jour--guest submission--thanks for the warning

Found by Joanne. She said someone called it "rolling probable cause."

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Found by Joanne, who asked if this is God or Mo.

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Plat du jour--guest submission

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Plat du jour--guest submission

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Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.

Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.

Semi-random thoughts

• I sign few of the online petitions that I am presented with, because most of them are addressed to people who couldn't care less what the general public thinks about what they are doing. Almost all the ones that I do sign are addressed to businesses. But even some of those fail to gain my support. For instance, I got one addressed to a bank which asks that it absolve a co-signer of a loan from his responsibility to pay it, because the primary debtor died. No. Not even though this was a student loan, and the student was his daughter. He was not just "helping his daughter" take out the loan--he promised to pay off the loan if she didn't, for whatever reason. It makes no difference that federal student loans are forgiven in such circumstances. He made a deal, he has to stick to it. 
• It's amazing how many of my entertainer friends had pictures with Joan Rivers to post. 
• I got some spam titled, "Would you sleep with a Married Woman?" Of course I would. I sleep with my wife every night.
• I'm flabbergasted by the recent jump in readers of my glob from Japan and New Zealand. I haven't written anything about either country. 

Plat du jour--guest submission

Found by Joanne.