Thursday miscellanea #72

  • There are the usual caveats about timing and degree, but it looks as if it may ice tomorrow night.  That’s kind of a waste.  Can’t it do it on a weeknight?  Heh.
  • Toyota now owns the biggest recall in history, and the step of halting sales of most of the new product line is unprecedented.  This is a big, big deal, and is going to hurt for years.  Don’t underestimate the immediate effect of this on employment, either.
  • I have little to say about the State of the Union address.  The grand, staged events don’t matter nearly as much as the on-the-ground, day-to-day stuff.  I suspect year two will find his ego keeping him the same viciously partisan and woefully incompetent executive he’s been to date, which to me is the best of all options.
  • I’m taking a seminar at church called The Man I’d Like To Be, by Neal Jeffrey.  It’s good, though I think I could take or leave the video portions.  I’m enjoying the resulting discussion, and getting to know our associate pastor and a few guys a bit better.
  • John Edwards just keeps endearing himself.  A former aide shares in a new book that Edwards hated making appearances at state fairs where “fat rednecks try to shove food down my face. I know I’m the people’s senator, but do I have to hang out with them?”
  • I think all of the stink over the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad is silly.  I thought it particularly rich that a spokesperson with the Women’s Media Center sniped about “uniting, not dividing” in a statement.
  • Did you see that Holiday Inn now offers free human bed-warming service at one of its London locations?  Yup, they’ll actually send someone to your room to lie in your bed for five minutes.  (No word on whether the person will also piss on the toilet seat and leave hair in the shower drain.)

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6 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #72”

  1. Ew. Trying to sleep where a stranger has just been lying down sounds entirely unappealing, but an electric blanket with a preheat setting sounds pretty nice!

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  2. Didn’t watch the SOTU last night. I decided to watch something that really gives me hope for the future: Alabama basketball!

    Greg: I second your “Ew”.

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  3. As I explained to ‘seester’s friend Christy at the football party on Sunday, I don’t want to be in some stranger’s warm. (You know, I might sign up for Christy’s warm, though. Heh.)

    Greg: Can’t give the plebes control of electric blankets. That’s lawsuits waiting to happen.

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  4. Re Obama: The good news is that in 2012 we’ll either get a new President, or (according to prophecy) the world will end. I’d call that a win-win.

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  5. Lee: Absent our esteemed president discovering some genuine (or at least genuine-seeming) humility, I suspect you’re right. I don’t worry about that as much as I used to–I think this guy’s ego really is way out of control–but there’s always a chance. If he really turned it on with the self-abnegation, he’d be formidable again.

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