The California National Guard will set up two recruiting booths at this weekend's event, which organizers predict will draw 1 million people to San Francisco.
The presence of the uniformed recruiters will mark the first time the military has participated in the city's largest gay-rights celebration. It's a change enabled by the Obama administration's 2011 repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, permitting gays and lesbians to serve openly in military ranks.
Citi Bike, New York City’s new bike-share program (you know, the one that represents creeping totalitarianism), while already very popular, is not without its problems. For some of the city’s wealthiest residents, for example, the issue is not so much the existence of the program but rather the fact that its bike-share stations have to be so, y’know, close.
But the revelation of big spending on the first lady casts a harsher light on the relationship between the governor and Williams — whose troubled Henrico County-based dietary supplement maker and former tobacco company has lost money for 10 years, is in litigation with the state over a $700,000 tax assessment, and is the subject of a federal securities investigation.
The most remarkable thing about the Supreme Court’s opinions announced Monday was not what the justices wrote, or said. It was what Samuel Alito did.
The associate justice, a George W. Bush appointee, read two opinions, both 5-4 decisions that split the court along its usual right-left divide. But Alito didn’t stop there. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, Alito visibly mocked his colleague.
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, was making her argument about how the majority opinion made it easier for sexual harassment to occur in the workplace when Alito, seated immediately to Ginsburg’s left, shook his head from side to side in disagreement, rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling.
In April, an instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., approached the producers of Portlandia, requesting to use a clip from the show's "Sanitation Twins" sketch (it spoofs recycling culture) in its advanced-intelligence classes, which focus on terrorism, espionage, IP theft and other crime.
"This falls under the surreal category," says co-star Carrie Brownstein. "We granted permission, although he didn't tell us why he was interested."
On today's
Kagro in the Morning show, we started with The Derp from Louie Gohmert, then were joined by
Greg Dworkin for an update on The Derp of
Politico's Green Lanternism, Obama's (then) upcoming climate speech, the immigration bill, etc. We were also able to sneak in an update on the IRS story, and a bit more about how Edward Snowden came to be working at Booz Allen. But it wasn't long before everything gave way to the news of the SCOTUS decision on the VRA.
Armando joined in to give his initial reactions, and you can hear him do his best to keep from boiling over. Hey, who needs to rebrand when you can simply redefine the market, right?