This sounds like the greatest advance in communications technology since the Post-It note:
Virtual Hold Technology based in Akron, Ohio, provides a solution that allows callers to receive a callback without waiting on hold or losing their place in the phone queue. The company has added several new state labor departments to its list of government clients.
We've had a conversation or two here about the damage done when a commitment to self-esteem leads to playing nice instead of playing to win. But is there any point at which it is appropriate to show some mercy? Rob McGill, coach of the Christian Heritage girls baskeball team that annihilated an opponent 108-3, doesn't think so:
Drop the earphones, scumbag! I said, DROP THE EARPHONES, SCUMBAG! I SAID . . .
It's not uncommon to see runners and pedestrians walking or jogging with headphones on. But here in Arkansas that could soon be against the law.
State lawmakers have proposed a bill that would ban headphones in both ears near streets.
Tim Poole says he's seen the worst of what could happen while running with headphones.
Rapacious lawyers discover climate change, and you know the results can't be good:
From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
The U.S. House yesterday voted mostly along party lines to repeal Obamacare. The measure will either fail in the Senate or get veoted by President Obama. Everybody knew that going in, but this was an important first step in keeping the debate going so that Obamacare is a major issue in the 2012 presidential race. And on the same day:
I was thinking about doing a "Hu's on First" parody, but I checked on line, and somebody already did it, way back in 'O2. Here it is, starring George Bush and Condi Rice
:Condi: Hu is the new leader of China.
George: That's what I want to know.
Condi: That's what I'm telling you.
George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China?
Condi: Yes.
George: I mean the fellow's name.
What are these "universal human rights" of which some of you Earthlings speak?
I wasn't planning to comment on President Obama's promise to "root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb" because there's no point in debunking such outright hokum. If there's anybody alive who believes Barack Obama can be a deregulator, he probably shouldn't be let out of the house. But maybe there is value in stating the obvious:
A fair criticism of Chris Christie and Tim Pawlenty (praised in this post) is that it's easy for them to say the debt ceiling shouldn't be raised because they aren't in Congress and wouldn't have to deal with the consequences. But Sen.
