March, 2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness, the language of love.
Join De Fund 0
The Roanoke County school board is planning to cut health care coverage for school bus drivers–you know, those folks who work a split shift for not much money–because Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s General Assembly have chosen to remove the “common” from “Commonwealth.”
The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey has some suggestions for the drivers. Here’s my favorite; follow the link for the rest:
The first is part-time delegates and senators in the Virginia General Assembly. Those are the people who’ve cut state support to public education and forced school boards into the position of cutting bus drivers’ benefits.
The second is positions on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. Those part-timers are eligible for full-time health benefits, too. They’re the ones who’ve been avoiding tax increases that would help fund continued benefits for other part-timers.
Light Bloggery 0
DST fever.
Facebook Frolics 0
Bernardo Tirado thinks he has figured out the Frolickers:
So what does the content you share and the frequency you post say about you?
For starters, we all fall into one out of four Facebook Personalities Types (FPT), which are:
- Voyeurs
- Informers
- Me Mees
- Evangelists
Follow the link for the sordid details.
He notes that, “in the context of Facebook Personality Types, ‘Post’ refers to an individual physically making a status update, uploading a picture, or checking-in at an establishment,” not a commenter.
Aside:
He doesn’t seem to have a category for persons who seldom log into Facebook because they are fed up with the Zuckerborg. (My blog posts to FB are automated.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Politeness begins at home.
Her unborn child also did not survive.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
He didn’t know the gun was loaded.
And, apparently, didn’t bother to check.
The Duke of Hazardous and the Public Teat 0
Being a duke means you can always tax the serfs.
The Dialectic of Republicanism 0
PoliticalProf points out the Republican dialectic:
He is also a ruthless authoritarian dictator coming to take your guns, lock you up in reeducation camps who sends his jack booted thugs in the IRS to abuse your rights and liberties if you espouse any political point of view he doesn’t like, all in the name of imposing Obamacare and its socialist nightmare on the freedom-loving American people.
The rest is below the fold in case it autoplays.
Light Bloggery 0
Some kind of weird connectivity issue with PVF on the other side of the modem. Going to wait it out.
Later:
Everything (except possibly me) is working normally again. I suspect my hosting provider was doing some maintenance. Computers don’t run themselves, though sometimes it seems as if they do.
Original Sin, Original Sinners 0
Eugene Robinson:
One price the slave owners paid was constant fear of insurrection,* especially after the Haitian revolution.
Read the rest. The article speaks for itself–and for others.
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*That “fear of insurrection” is what gave rise to the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second Amendment is steeped in racism. Any other explanation for it is racists’ bullshit.
RIP Bartcop 0
A loss. As my two or three regular readers know, I have long been a fan of his work.
Please follow the link and contribute to help his widow. I did.
Via Balloon Juice. Please follow the link to read John Cole’s post.
What’s Wrong with the Schools? 0
It’s not the students.
It’s not the teachers.
It’s not even the administrators, though a lot of them are grifters who serve no useful purpose.
It’s wishful thinking and a ginormous misdirection play.
