Conclusions Drawn
Blog URL http://www.conclusionsdrawn.blogspot.com
Located La Jolla, California USA
Tags Celebrity, Politics, Current Events, News
Sardonic commentary on political and celebrity news. Descriptions of quirky incidents from daily life. Periodic references to my other “geek” interests like Dungeons and Dragons and comic books
Latest Blog Posts
- Myers And Wife, Elitist Spies For Cuba, Plead Guilty on Nov 21, 2009 in Spying and Espionage
Retired State Department worker Walter Myers, 72, and his wife, Gwendolyn, 71, who were arrested in June and accused of spying for Cuba for three decades, pled guilty yesterday in a deal that will see him languish behind bars for the rest of his lif...
- Hacked E-Mails From Climatologists Discuss "Trick" on Nov 21, 2009 in News
Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted online an array of controversial e-mails from prominent climatologists.In an article yesterday, The New York Times described them in...
- Sy Sims Has Died ("An Educated Consumer...") on Nov 20, 2009 in Obituaries
Sy Syms died this week at 83. He founded the "Syms" discount clothes chain in New York City in 1959, and was perhaps the first retailer to sell men's clothes at a discount. I remember going to one in Maryland as a kid. But even more I remember the...
- Tim Burton Exhibition At Museum of Modern Art on Nov 20, 2009 in Movies
Starting on November 22nd, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is hosting an exhibition celebrating the work of director Tim Burton. While I've loved some of his movies (Ed Wood, Nightmare Before Christmas), I've been really underwhelmed by others...
- 900 Lb. Man Dies In Lay-Z-Boy Recliner on Nov 20, 2009 in News
A South Carolina man who reportedly weighed almost 900 lbs. has died of cardiac arrest at 33, after months without getting up from his Lay-Z-Boy recliner chair. After injuring his knee 9 months ago, he apparently never left his home again, or even wa...
- Obama: KSM To Get "Fair Trial" And Then Killed on Nov 19, 2009 in News
NBC's Chuck Todd interviewed President Obama today. A 13 minute clip from that interview is embedded below. Much of it is just "blah, blah, blah." But I have embedded it below because of the President's response to a question from Todd at the 3:45...
- ABC News: 50,000 Jobs Not Really From Stimulus on Nov 19, 2009 in Politics
ABC News is reporting today that the non-partisan Government Accountability Office is now saying that more than 50,000 of the jobs that the Obama Administration has claimed have been created by their $787 billion "stimulus package" to date are relate...
