Steve in Manhattan

Infrastructure

Steve in Manhattan
10:30 am • Thursday • July 26, 2012
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Playing Chicken…

They just double down: “Instead of owning up to the fact that The Jim Henson Company stopped doing business with them because they’re overrun with bigots, [Chick-Fil-A] is making fake Facebook accounts to defend its honor on the social network. How do we know the accounts are fake? Just check out this back and forth on Chick-fil-A’s Facebook page between real, breathing people and “Abby Farle”, a Facebook account that was made 8 hours ago by a chicken PR flack with a stock image of a teenage girl as her profile picture:” [Gizmodo]

Steve in Manhattan
12:30 pm • Wednesday • July 25, 2012
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The Great Beyond

Chad Everett (1936-2012)

Dr. Joe Gannon is gone. It’s said they die in groups of three, so there you have it:

Steve in Manhattan
11:15 pm • Tuesday • July 24, 2012
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Sociopaths

Almost a Darwin Award…

“DALLAS, July 24 (UPI) — Dallas police said they arrested a man whose gun accidentally went off inside a Walmart store, injuring two other customers.Todd Canady, 23, of Waco had allegedly bolted from the store in the Lake Highlands district Monday night when he was confronted by an off-duty police officer about the shooting, which left a woman and a 5-year-old child wounded.”[UPI.com]