By Zay N. Smith
We Have Seen the Present, and It Does Not Work:
Officials in Paxton, Ill., have ordered heavy equipment to destroy the only sledding hill in the area because there is a risk of injury when children sled down hills.
News Headline: “White House reporters complain about lack of access.”
News Headline: “Washington press corps closes its own dinner to cameras.”
The stories seemed to go together, for some reason.
News Headline: “Wave of hate groups in U.S., experts say.”
News Headline: “Study: Certain organisms can undergo reverse evolution.”
These seemed to go together, too.
QT End of the World As We Know It Update:
Asteroid 2013 EC20 passed halfway between Earth and the moon on Saturday, two days after it was discovered.
News Headline: “NASA concerned with solar activity: ‘Something unexpected is happening.'”
Science progresses.
At least now we understand when something unexpected is happening.
Whatever it is.
News Headline: “California school board member to serve time for pimping.”
Does California have something against job creators?
Modern Education + the Criminal Mind =
A man robbing a night club in China’s Yunnan Province concealed his identity by making sure to put a transparent bucket completely over his head.
News Item: “. . . The shark sightings have been in the news all week, but are not unusual. . . .”
Thus explaining why they’ve been in the news all week, notes P.B., a Bethesda, Md., reader.
News Headline: “Jeb Bush: Obama won election by ‘dividing the country.'”
About time someone called Obama on this.
Divided it into a majority and a minority, if memory serves.
QT What Passes for Miracles These Days Update:
An image of Jesus has been found on the floor beneath a waxing table in a beauty salon in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Today’s (All Right, Tomorrow’s) Birthdays: Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller, 117; Tony “Two-Ton” Galento, 102; Sammy “Sammy Bull” Gravano, 68; Rich “Svengoolie” Koz, 61.
QT Grammar R Us Seminar on the English Language:
Economist Austan Goolsbee on the difficulties of training a nation’s workforce:
“Let’s not overly dreadfulize it, if that’s a word. . . . ”
It is now.
QT might have gone with “dreadfulate.”
But that is just QT.
Steve Olle, a Washington D.C. reader, wants to remind us that we have started Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time, by the way.
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Posted on March 11, 2013