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X Curmudgeon: July 2012
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Monday, July 02, 2012. Inside The Virginia Derecho. By now, many of you have heard the term "derecho" used to describe the intense meteorological event that wreaked havoc across much of Virginia and the metro DC area Late Friday night. Friday's derecho started near Chicago in the early afternoon and raced southeastward at about 60 mph, fueled by an intense mass of steamy hot air that set records throughout the mid-Atlantic that day. Right around...
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X Curmudgeon: October 2012
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Ohio Early Voting Continues to Favor Obama Heavily. With Ohio becoming such a pivotal state in the now very tight race for President, numerous organizations are conducting polling of Buckeye state voters. Ohio has early voting, and Ohio voters have been casting ballots now for several weeks. Moreover, the margin of Obama's lead has not changed significantly as the number of early voters has increased over time. F...
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X Curmudgeon: January 2012
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Friday, January 13, 2012. Bondi Compounds Her Tax Problem. Melissa Bondi is now facing scrutiny from the "mainstream" press about her tax problem, or should we say problems. Her response is not encouraging. Here's the two tax problems Bondi has:. 1 A nearly $20,000 IRS lien for failure to pay taxes on income earned a few years ago; and. 2 The apparent failure to pay personal property taxes on a car she garaged in Arlington for a couple of years.
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X Curmudgeon: Time To Retire The Verizon Voicemail Lady
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Thursday, January 09, 2014. Time To Retire The Verizon Voicemail Lady. Every day, millions of people are required to wait their way through Verizon's forced appendage to all voicemail messages with instructions about how to leave a voicemail message. Is this really necessary? This Verizon addendum adds 6-10 seconds to each voicemail greeting. That means that if there were just 1 million messages a day (we're sure that's on the low side), the...
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X Curmudgeon: January 2014
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Gov McDonnell Done In By Wife's Greed. We were quite sad to see the news of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's indictment on corruption charges. On policy matters, McDonnell turned out to be relatively moderate, and he got some important things done, not the least of which was transportation funding. Now it looks like he can add to his list of accomplishments ethics reform in Virginia! Of course, it's nothing n...
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X Curmudgeon: Shame on VA Schools Closed Due to Cold Weather
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Tuesday, January 07, 2014. Shame on VA Schools Closed Due to Cold Weather. Bah on the administrators of many Virginia school districts today, which are closed due to a little bit of cold air. And congrats to the leaders of schools in DC and MD for showing some backbone by calling it a regular school day. School administrators are the biggest wimps in the world when it comes to weather. And very shortsighted. Someone should point out to t...Furth...
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X Curmudgeon: Public Restrooms Need Automatic Doors
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Thursday, February 06, 2014. Public Restrooms Need Automatic Doors. These days, you can get into a public restroom and do your business without touching anything (at least with your hands). The toilet flushes automatically. The water faucet comes on automatically (if you flail your hands around enough). The paper towels come out, or the hand drier starts, without touching anything. Why not have automatic doors in public restrooms? Find Japan jap...
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X Curmudgeon: December 2011
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Friday, December 02, 2011. Soccer Ridiculousness- Part 2. In Soccer Ridculousness Part 1. We went over the absurd comments of college soccer coaches who object to any limits on current year-round training and competition for collegiate players. Today, we cover the current push to prohibit elite players in the high school age group from competing with their schools. Adding to the confusion, the girls have a different elite training program. It is...
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X Curmudgeon: Flash Boys--Massive Fraud and Racketeering On Wall Street
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A blog about politics, current events and consumer culture. Friday, April 04, 2014. Flash Boys- Massive Fraud and Racketeering On Wall Street. If you are an investor in the U.S. stock markets, you need to read Michael Lewis's latest book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Revolt is right- you will be revolted by the utter greed and criminality of a small band of Wall Street gangsters who have rigged the market to skim off hundreds of billions of dollars that properly belong to investors. What makes you r...