Promoting Paranoia Parenting for Profit 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, when I was old enough, I rode my bicycle the mile or so to my elementary school. When I got home in the afternoons, I would sometimes take long walks in the woods behind Pine View Farm–those woods you can see in the background of that picture there.
No one tracked me. And, somehow, I always got home okay.
Now it appears that there is a whole industry based on instilling fear in parents so that they will buy products to track their kids’ every move.
For some fool reason, I find this disturbing.
The Name Game 0
Mary Trump comments on Donald Trump’s attempt to rename Lake Ontario and the Republican Party’s continuous enabling of his venality. As an aside, she also reveals the new acronym for remember the names of the Great Lakes.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
We are a broken society.
American Stasi 0
In Hartford Courant report about how Connecticut officials are alarmed at tactics used by ICE, the state’s Attorney-General, William Tong, sums up what the Trump maladministration is doing:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
“She Put Her Money Where Her Mouth Was” 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay talks about the part of Dolly Parton’s legacy that isn’t getting talked about.
We lost a good person.
He’s Bubblelicious 0
Methinks Michael in Norfolk makes a good point when he says that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Happy Birthday to Me 0
As of today, this blog has reached adulthood, having attained its 21st year.
Steam Punked 0
Donald Trump has demanded that the Navy rip out new launch technology from aircraft carriers and, instead, go back to steam-powered catapults like the ones used in WWII. At my local rag, retired military officer Bree Fram looks at the bureaucratese in the military’s response to this and decodes de code.
Here’s a sample:
After years in defense acquisition, allow me to translate: This is a spectacularly bad time to change the design, and it’s going to cost a fortune.
The Toddler-in-Chief 0
Robert Reich looks at Donald Trump’s hissy-fit against Canada, which has long been one of the United States’s most dependable allies and partners until Trump decided to start a trade war of choice for no good reason except that he can’t stand it when people don’t follow his orders however–er–misguided they may be, and comments that
Trump is a peevish, angry, perverse child.
The question I ask myself is how much worse will his behavior have to get before Republicans and suck-ups around him take some action to stop him?
Sadly, my answer would be “never,” because today’s Republican Party, as the Founders feared might happen some day, has placed faction over governance.
But that’s just me.
Follow the link for the context of that excerpt.