Saturday Night House Party
Send us a youtube clip of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is Nellie McKay, submitted by guest DJ BossLady of The House: Followed up with some vintage Blondie:
An award-winning journalist and former editor of The Rhinoceros Times in Charlotte, Pellin has been called everything from a misguided troglodyte to a professional agitator. He prefers the label of a realist, the guy in the crowd telling everybody that not only doesn’t the emperor have any clothes; he’s trying to steal ours. Pellin has covered the Char-Meck scene for the better part of two decades, earning his fair share of fans and more than a few critics who wish he’d move to Nome, Alaska, and be eaten by wild bears. When he’s not writing, he stays busy enjoying time with his wife and two kids. When he can break away for some R&R, he likes to fly fish (even if he doesn’t catch anything) and camp (even if it rains).
Magic Money
I really wish that somebody had explained to me earlier in life that it’s just plain stupid to actually work for money, when you apparently can just create it out of thin air. This from Forbes: The giant US banks have been bailed out again from huge potential writeoffs by loosey-goosey accounting accepted by the […]
WackyLeakes
It’s like WikiLeaks, only better. Nobody has to steal any top-secret documents; it’s all out there in the open, at least every other week. What’s amazing is that Mecklenburg Commissioner Vilma Leake, a former school board member, continues to get away with it, year after year dating back several, spouting increasingly inane gibberish from the […]
City Council Hamburglars
Opponents of an ambitious renovation planned for Quail Corners shopping center in southeast Charlotte showed up ready for a food fight at Tuesday night’s city council zoning meeting. Crosland development wants to give its 30-year-old shopping center a multi-million-dollar facelift, but the plan hinges on an expansion to include a drive-thru fast-food restaurant that company […]
End Times or New Beginnings?
I’m almost reluctant to post this one, fearing, of course, that it could inspire somebody from local government to go on a social justice jag and conclude that to be world class inclusive demands Charlotte-Mecklenburg follow suite. This from FoxNews.com: “Is Berkeley Ready to Pay for Sex-Change Operations?” Apparently, it’s not a rhetorical question and […]
Murder And Mayhem In Mexico
The drug wars in Mexico continue to claim lives at an alarming rate, with hundreds of slayings taking place within a stone’s throw of US border states. How vicious and widespread has the mayhem become? A recent data dump from the Mexican government paints a stark picture, as detailed here by The Guardian UK. The […]
Mecklenburg County: We’re Number One
In traffic and criminal citations, that is, which were issued over the holiday’s “Booze It and Lost It” campaign. That’s no real surprise, what with greater Char-Meck being the state’s most populous area and all; stands to reason we’d have the largest number of citations. Another convenient explanation, though, might come down to straight economics, […]
Saturday Night House Party
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is classic Willie and Merle, from House Guest DJ Adam Love. Enjoy.
How Long Until Credit Warnings Are Considered Hate Speech?
You might have missed this buried in all the talk about a call to returned civility in political discourse, but apparently the country’s going broke, has this little debt problem, and its Triple-A credit rating is in jeopardy – again – of being downgraded. This from The WSJ: Moody’s Investors Service said in a report […]
Constitutional Law Food Fight
Hats off to the folks at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, who were in court this week battling corporate bribes, er, tax incentives and trying to clean up the lingering stench left by disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black. The NCICL presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the NC Court of Appeals, […]
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