Obama’s recent decision to hold Yemenites in Gitmo forever is probably his most disappointing action yet. As usual, Dahlia Lithwick speaks some good sense.
Okay, since there was much grousing about the insoluble captchas, they’ve been removed. It appears that they’ve been cracked anyway. 2,801 spammy comments got through in December, and another 1,145 in January alone thus far. I’m guessing they just run the audio through a speech-to-text engine. The audio gets randomly distorted so you can’t do…
So I got something from Land’s End and something from LUCCA today in the mail. Berck suggested I put them with the other presents to wait till Christmas to open. Anyone know if I shouldn’t?
While applying for unemployment benefits with the state of New York, there was the following note: “If your financial institution has recently merged with another financial institution, the new financial institution should be contacted to obtain the new bank routing and account numbers.”
I dare anyone to understand this: 8-70-117. Employment – base of operations. “Employment” means that the entire service of an individual is performed within this state or both within and without this state if the service is localized in this state; or that the service is not localized in any state but some of the…