Potpourri-A random collection of variety sort of things

Face it: Your Correspondent would appreciate a few more fans forthis blog's own Facebook presence! Just click on the image preceding.18h UTC; TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013: First off, Your Correspondent feels it best to send his solidarities and sympathies to those as have been afflicted by the late tornadoes in Oklahoma--as in Sunday's such in Shawnee as killed two and yesterday's such in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore as killed 51 people (24 of which have been confirmed officially), with...Read Full Story

16h UTC; SUNDAY, 19 MAY 2013: By now, you may or may not have heard about where Mayor Rob Ford out of Toronto The Good (or reasonable facsimilie thereof) was seen on a video supposedly smorking crack cocaine in a car park from a glass pipe (or, again, reasonable facsimilie thereof) ... and that said video was making the rounds of Teh Innerwebz big-big time, notwithstanding where offers to sell the video to Gawker.com and The Toronto Star (as has been rather uneasy towards His Honour) were...Read Full Story

18h UTC; WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013: Has anybody out there considered the likelihood of the late scandal revolving around claims that the Internal Revenue Service arbitrarily delayed the processing of applications by "Tea Party," "9/12" and "patriot" groups seeking tax-exempt status being nothing but a manufactured "Tea Party"-brand PsyOps prolefeed designed to discredit President Obama (with the oh-so-subtle hint of appeals to latent racism expected throughout)?With the Emergency Procurator...Read Full Story

18h UTC; WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013: As school prepares to let out for the summer break in many parts of the country over the next fortnight or so, Your Correspondent can just imagine certain specimens of parents calling their children into the living room ahead of the end of term to explain, not the "facts of life," but the "why and wherefore" behind an insistence on the kids' being out of the house all the more during the summer break from classes, said kids expected to be "out and about" from...Read Full Story

18h UTC; TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013: No wonder the "Tea Party" crowd has this Grand Delusion (and then some) insisting that Our Dear Lovely AmeriKKKa be seen as nothing less than the Divinely-Ordained Lord and Master of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies as of Divine Will and Right, and that the schools should promote as much in their curriculum (provided such was nativist, racist and xenophobically delusional, not unlike apartheid South Africa's Christian National Education syllabus...Read Full Story