Saturday News Briefs
News you can use all weekend
- Numbers - And now it can be told: the GOP held onto their seats through gerrymandering. The counts keep coming in and the Democrats won more than 1,000,000 votes than the GOP, but they kept their seats through a massive gerrymandering effort. (Think Progress)
- Law Suits - Famous writing person, Dana Loesch, is suing Breitbart.com to free her from her contract and is seeking $75,000 in damages:
St. Louis talk radio host Dana Loesch, also a frequent guest on CNN, alleges in the suit filed in federal district court in St. Louis that the site is refusing to publish her work while “sabotag[ing] her attempts to labor in a similar fashion elsewhere through public misstatements and private threats to sue those who would otherwise employ Loesch.”
Breitbart’s ghost has a sad. (BuzzFeed)
- Reprimands - “DECEMBER 21–A federal employee was formally reprimanded this month for excessive workplace flatulence, a sanction that was delivered to him in a five-page letter that actually included a log of representative dates and times when he was recorded “releasing the awful and unpleasant odor” in his Baltimore office.” (The Smoking Gun)
While I think the flatulence reprimand is the wrong way to approach the problem, (downwind rather than upwind,) shouldn’t the Tea Party caucus be cited for their constant noxious releases?
As a retired civil servant I know supervisors are instructed to document incidents thoroughly. Just writing down “Rush farts a lot” doesn’t hold up during separation proceedings.
I know guys who could have been written up. One guy cleared out a NJ Transit rail car coming home from a Yankees game.
Wasn’t Chimpy one to drop some farts and laugh?
Disagreeable repercussions pursuant to the the release of one’s noxious gases drift only down the food chain, moeman, not upward.