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by liberal japonicus This is nice In December, a judge ordered the bank to pay the couple $2,500 in attorney fees. But months went by and the bank never cut a check. So, the Naples Daily News reports, Nyerges hired a lawyer, who pursued a levy, and this past Friday the showdown was on: The Nyergeses showed up … Read more
by Doctor Science The Romney campaign has been running ads saying Obama is planning to remove the work requirement for welfare, so “your” money goes to “those” people. As reported by Ben Smith at Buzzfeed [emphasis mine]: “Our most effective ad is our welfare ad,” a top television advertising strategist for Romney, Ashley O’Connor, said … Read more
by liberal japonicus Well, maybe not, but my post about Akin and the Republican Mission Impossible disavowal somehoe moved to the perfidious Chinese, so in that light, this article on Huawei is quite interesting. The first grafs: Chen Lifang is a bit flummoxed. Chen is a board member and senior vice president at Huawei, the … Read more
by liberal japonicus Something a bit off of the politics talk. I'm a mac user, but I wanted to give a different perspective to the Apple-Samsung decision and maybe talk about something other than politics. As usual, the thread is also for everyone who wants to explain why the patent system sucks, why Apple is the best/worst … Read more
by liberal japonicus As a person with not a scintilla of drawing ability, I feel this woman's pain. Juan María de Ojeda, a city councillor, said the woman, acting "spontaneously and with good intentions", had confessed what had happened as soon as she realised "that things had got out of hand". Discuss here the biggest … Read more
–by Sebastian This isn't really important, but it has bugged me for a little while and I was reminded about it when Julian Assange came back into the news recently. Assange says that he doesn't want to go to Sweden because he is afraid that Sweden will extradite him to the United States. The weird … Read more
by Doctor Science Over at Making Light, Patrick Nielsen Hayden wrote about how Ewan Morrison mangled the history of fanfic in his recent article in The Guardian, In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades. Subheading in The Guardian: EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey originated as a piece … Read more
by liberal japonicus Not picking on Russell, but his love of the Scottish people (a love I share) gives me an excuse to make a link list. Brad DeLong on Niall Ferguson Fallows on Ferguson Wolcott on Ferguson Ezra Klein on Ferguson Sullivan (and Sullivan) on his "old and good" friend Ferguson Krugman on Ferguson and … Read more
by Doctor Science My foray into Art of the Low Countries fandom continues apace. (Previous installment: How cleanliness sat down next to godliness) Today I bring you Pieter Aertsen‘s Adoration of the Magi, with some observations that have never before been published, as far as I can tell. Here’s the painting, currently in the Rijksmuseum, … Read more
by liberal japonicus Just an amuse bouche for you, but I'm trying to figure out if this is progress or not. Senior Republicans on Monday pushed their candidate in the Missouri Senate race, congressman Todd Akin, to quit over his remarks about rape that distracted from the build up to the party's nomination of Mitt … Read more