Outlawing Happy

Over at OTB, James points to an AP feed which reports they’ve banned ‘Happy Hour” in the UK. Obviously, the stated concerns are health-related.

It must, however, be asked if Government isn’t overstepping it’s bounds here?  More correctly, perhaps is

I’ve done some housecleaning.

First, Bye Bye Memeorandum. Nice little widget you have there. It’s been a bloody YEAR since you last linked me. You link the blog on a regular basis, I’ll run your ad again. Not until.

Second

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Yet another Monday, and only three shopping days left until ‘Black Friday”.

• Thanks for the feedback abot the new latout.  It pleases me

There’s a reason why Obama and his people are so busy back peddling from the goals they laid out during the campaign; reality.

Robert Stacy McCain  says it well:

Details, however, were not the Obama campaign’s strongest selling point. Rather,

In this morning’s Financial Times:

The US government rode to the rescue of Citigroup, entering an agreement to guarantee up to $306bn in problematic assets and inject $20bn in capital to restore confidence in a bank that defines the

Ooooohhh… this is rich. From the Washington Post:

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the

Couple things.

First, I’ve added some color to the blockquotes, as you’ll see. It’s a little ham-handed, and I’ll be adjusting it, but the basics are in.

Secondly, I’ve spent some time with the comment editor, and gotten MCE working.

We’ve been told often enough that what happens in film, and on TV, is disconnected from reality. So, too, it appears, are the actors, themselves.

LOS ANGELES -(AP)- The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to

You will have doubtless noted a new look for BitsBlog. Same layout… which is what really attracted me to the old one… but I think the color combo here is easier to read. The old one was a modification of 

Christopher Sherman at AP, last night::

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) – A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County

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Friday, and lots of fresh snow up the ground in Bitsville, today. A lot of it coming from the Obama people, and congressional

David Kope who writes with the Volokh boys, says this morning:

Earlier this year, Eric Holder–along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Noted a site called typealyzer.com being used over at OTB, and on a whim, decided to try it here. Here’s the result for this blog. I guess I can live with the result.

The analysis indicates that the author of

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• With all the Democrats in

Here’s a partial list we’ve gotten here of stores and their plans after the first of the year:

• Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
• Ann Taylor 117 stores nationwide closing
• Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine’s to close 150 stores nationwide