Links posted on January 14, 2009
Fry's Executive's Casino Demands - we've talked about the wonderful land of the concert rider (y'know, the legal document specifying exactly what colors of M&Ms are to be present in the dressing room lounge): from the original to the TMI-worthy to the humorously self-aware. Apparently this Fry's executive (a graduate of the Charles Barkley school of Gambling in Moderation) reading those thought, "A nice start. Some good ideas in there. But on the whole, far too little pettiness and selfish narcissism. I shall show those pikers what a list of outrageously specific demands should read like!
I mean, I know how furious flimsy coat hangers make *me*, but some of the rest of that stuff is just outrageous. [via DF]
It was nice to know ya, exclusionary rule. Special congratulations to the Reid Democrats for refusing to filibuster Alito. This Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito block is kind of an impossible hurdle to beat.