Author Archives: Alaska

Oregon Just Went Up a Notch

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Alaska

…in my estimation. I did not know that the Oregon Constitution specifically protects jury nullification. From a comment to the Radley Balko story linked in MadRock’s post below: #22 | Kyle | February 8th, 2011 at 6:32 pm Irving, That … Continue reading →

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$14/Hour Buys You a $175k House

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Alaska

Herewith, a rant: One of our employees, a young single mother pregnant with her third child, floored her supervisor the other day by mentioning she’d bought a house in Oakland. “How,” he asked incredulously, “did you manage that when I … Continue reading →

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Real-World Health Care Snippets

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Alaska

Met with the health insurance agent the other day. Our business premiums went up 33% over last year. Of that, all of 5% was due to the increase in our RAF (“Risk Adjustment Factor”) which is unusually high for a … Continue reading →

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I think this encapsulates it perfectly

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Alaska
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ST:TNG Porn

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Alaska

This actually looks to be really well-crafted and thoughtfully done! Excellent lookalikes and the pairings we all wanted to see, including Geordi and that hot holodeck scientist hologram chick. http://tinyurl.com/4nztt2v NSFW, obviously…. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Kel-Tec RFB Uh-Oh

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Alaska

LawDog has a critique of an element in the RFB I would not have noticed. Primer wipe explained here. One of the reasons I had such hopes for this rifle is that the wife actually hefted one at SHOT and … Continue reading →

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Breda would NEVER do this

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Alaska

A customer wandered up and asked me where the Anne Frank books were. I told him we keep them in the attic. The best part is he went off to look for the elevator.

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College Prep, oh, and Cutting His Balls Off

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alaska

The best analysis, IMO, of the whole “Tiger Mother” phenomenon is here. The curse of the second generation, in which they do worse then their parents, isn’t about lazy kids but self-absorbed parents. Yes, narcissism‘s in there. No surprise, given … Continue reading →

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I Blame the Colleges

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alaska

Note Egypt’s position in the above. Seriously, what are we graduating these days? I’ve got a full-rant post waiting in the wings about how I’m trying to hire an administrative assistant/project manager, pay $12-$15/hour, college degree preferred, flawless English a … Continue reading →

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Weekend Links

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Alaska

I haven’t checked in with Cap’n Bob and the lovely Damsel in quite a while — they’ve been building a new house and blogging up a storm about it. Check ’em out. I like those steel doors! And Dirtcrashr’s been … Continue reading →

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