The Manning sentencing and the Greenwald story did speed up this kind of slow news week, but, I sure could use some real stupid like Allen West…
Oh! Look!
Empty suit with bow tie reports on the color of White House dogs…
In an attempt at satire, the Daily Caller posted a piece on the new White House Portuguese Water Dog, Sunny. Funny details included the unemployment rate of Sunny’s home state, Michigan. The article also included questions regarding the need for Valerie Jarrett to greet visitors with the addition of the new puppy to the White House. Of course, there are “snarky fun” comments regarding the cost of the new pet (as if the POTUS should not be able to afford such a breed.)
Yes, I DO know that the post was supposed to be satire.
On a side note, the article did mention that the First Family does not have any “white dogs.”
Hardy har har…..
BTW, the new pup is DANGEROUSLY CUTE…
Accounting Today finds documentation on Left leaning group scrutiny by IRS…
It seems a wide variety of “social welfare groups” with political sounding titles were targeted by the IRS.
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones:
Anyway, it seems that the tireless Sander Levin has unearthed yet another IRS PowerPoint presentation from around 2010 that tells screeners to watch out for groups asking for tax-exempt status who might actually be primarily engaged in political activities….
Aside from providing yet more evidence in favor of a federal ban on PowerPoint presentations, the astute observer will note that the first slide features both an elephant and a donkey. (Sorry, Green Party.) The next slide does indeed list Tea Party, and then Patriots and 9/12 Project. But guess what? Next up are Emerge, Progressive, and We the People. This sure doesn’t look like an IRS jihad against conservative organizations, does it?…
Look! Up in the sky! It’s Benghazi!
Well, I guess it was another fake “conspiragasm” …
R.I.P. Elmore Leonard…
One of my favorite, favorite, favorite crime novelists Elmore Leonard has passed away.
“Elmore Leonard — the award-winning mystery writer whose snappy dialogue, misfit characters and laconic sense of humor produced such popular works as “Get Shorty,” “Hombre,” “Fifty-Two Pickup” and “Out of Sight” — has died, according to his literary agent, Jeffrey Posternak. He was 87.
The cause of death was not given, but Leonard had suffered a stroke two weeks ago. According to his website, the author died at his home in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.
Leonard’s succinct writing style — he favored brief exchanges of dialogue leavened with wit and a keen sense of person and place — made him a favorite of Hollywood, which turned several Leonard novels and stories into films and TV programs. (The newest Leonard adaptation, the film “Life of Crime,” based on his novel “The Switch,” will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month.)”
Leonard, a few years back wrote his 10 rules for writing:
- Never open a book with weather.
- Avoid prologues.
- Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.
- Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”…he admonished gravely.
- Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
- Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”
- Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
- Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
- Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
- Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
You gave much enjoyment, thank you!
