Petraeus
 

hey. you might know this. how do you "plead guilty" to a misdemenor from a cop? is there like an airport judge there taking pleas?

Petraeus
 

Didn't he go back to enter a plea two months later?

Petraeus
 

I've never heard of anything like that. I thought he was given a court date by which to plead, which is consistent with my understanding of the process, and that was where he plead. There was discussion of Craig consulting counsel before his plea, so unless there was a lawyer in that bathroom...

Petraeus
 

A year ago I'd suspect there might be, but flower finally seems happy with this new spin class

Petraeus
 

Why do they call it a "Glory Hole"? You get a lot of things having your cock sucked through a hole in a men's bathroom stall by some anonymous stranger, but "Glory" isn't one of them. To me, glory involves public adulation and notice... Accolades and such. I don't see any of that in glory hole culture.

But I could be wrong, having never glory holed or been glory holed. Maybe there's a quiet sort of glory in it. I don't know, but "sordid release hole" seems a lot more accurate, though sematically unpleasant.

Petraeus
 

Isn't that what you're doing when you sign the ticket that they give you when you're caught going 89 in a 70, and you're just glad that they didn't catch the 105 before the hill?

• Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky wrote an editorial last month wrote a column entitled, "To save America, we need another 9/11." He even suggested some targets for Al Qaeda, like the Golden Gate Bridge, Mt. Rushmore, and Chicago's Wrigley Field.
  
  Do not be so humble Mr. Bykofsky. You are clearly enough of a patriot that your house belongs on that list.

Stephen Colbert

Petraeus
 

Well, you're the expert, but I think signing the ticket is just acknowledgment of receipt. That said, if you send it in with payment, that's usually the guilty plea.

BTW, the WaPo diagramed his route, which it calls suspicious, not because it's not direct (it is the most direct route), but because he passed three other bathrooms first, before hitting the john (sts).

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-...7091200141.gif

Question: If you're running late for your connection, do you go at the first bathroom or the one closest to your departure gate? I'd say the latter--get to the gate, assess whether you have time, then go. Of course, I wouldn't stop for any glorification if I'm late. But I'm not gay, and I never have been gay (NTTATWWT).

Petraeus
 

Slate has a video reinactment based off the police report. I think it's pretty damned funny.

Petraeus
 

LATE? LATE? He hung out there being entrapped for 15 minutes.

Petraeus
 

Ask Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_hole_(sexual) :

"The origin of the term is unknown, but may have come from the mining industry, where the opening to a mineshaft containing the "mother lode" would be considered to be the "glory hole". Or it could perhaps be in reference to the always open mouth or "glory hole" of a kiln used in glass blowing. It could also be a reference to glory holes in civil engineering, where water from a reservoir is quickly "sucked" through a glory hole and out of a dam.

There are many theories regarding the origins of the first glory hole. One common concept is that they began in ancient days as a spy or peep hole, and grew larger as men sought more contact, but only enough contact as to perform sex acts upon the genitals of another man. The theory of use was that, although heterosexual men would seek the relief to be found on the other side of a glory hole, they did not wish to lose their anonymity, or to engage in any other physical contact with another man.

From the mid-to-late 20th century, a glory hole could be found in many public men's room in the United States. They could be found in adult businesses, bus and train stations, office buildings, and several other public buildings."

It's not Philadelphia. It's "North Baltimore."

The magic bond 8-ball.
 

• This paper shows how data from world financial markets can be used to shed light on the central question of whether the Surge has increased or diminished the prospect of today's Iraq surviving into the future. In particular, I examine the price of Iraqi state bonds, which the Iraqi government is currently servicing, on world financial markets. After the Surge, there is a sharp decline in the price of those bonds, relative to alternative bonds. The decline signaled a 40% increase in the market's expectation that Iraq will default. This finding suggests that to date the Surge is failing to pave the way toward a stable Iraq and may in fact be undermining it.

This paper, via Alex Tabarrok.

The magic bond 8-ball.
 

Ergo, the U.S. is increasingly un/in/non/stable because the price of debt has gone up in the last few months. Bullshit.

I so doubt that there is any real market in Iraqi debt, that I suspect this asshole's 40% figure refers to a fluctuation between $0.01 on the dollar to $0.006 on the dollar with the last trade being three weeks ago for one contract.

Ty, I like your fight sometimes, but this is weak.

The magic bond 8-ball.
 

Tabarrok is a libertarian economist of some achievement at George Mason, so I doubt the work is that shoddy. I just thought the concept was interesting -- make of it what you will. Like a magic 8-ball, say.