2015 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
NRA Paradise is here.
Light Bloggery 0
Preoccupations through Tuesday.
Misdirection Play 0
Jeffrey Gillespie finds the response to the non-debunked Rolling Stone UVa. rape story to be dismaying. An excerpt (emphasis added):
But when you live in a country where 20 percent of women have been the victims of sexual violence, there’s really no possibility for overreaction. There’s only the need for a moment of silence, a moment to let that shameful statistic sink in, and then there’s work to be done.
The irony is that, except for some details, such as names, dates, and places, the Rolling Stone story was true. What it described does indeed happen all too frequently and authorities and society regularly wink at it until forced into action.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
‘Tis the Season 0
The VP-Finance of my one of my employers believed that, if you qualified for an income tax refund of no more than $50.00, you had managed your tax liability effectively in the previous year.
“Discrimination Then, Discrimination Now, Discrimination Forever” 0
In the Charlotte Observer, Taylor Batten sums up South Carolina’s amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court gay marriage case. The crux:
Looks as if South Carolina called Saul.
“Better Call Saul” 0
It seems that the anti-gay folks are having trouble getting good lawyers to advocate for bigotry and homophobia.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate politeness.
Emergency medical personnel took Mr. Metzger to University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Hijacked! 0
Heh.
The Portland station said the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and four towns paid $300 to the hackers after a virus, called a “megacode,” was downloaded on a computer system they share. Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Bracket said that the computer system was unusable until the fee was paid, and that the hackers claimed the program, called “ransomware,” would wipe the entire computer system clean if the fee wasn’t paid.
They paid the ransom in bitcoins.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Daniel Ruth eagerly anticipates Mario Rubio’s announcing his candidacy for the Presidency:
But Rubio turned and ran away from his own bill — immigration reform, what immigration reform? — once the tea party crowd started getting all twitchy. Now there’s a profile in quivering for you. And this guy thinks he can stare down Vladimir Putin?
Newsweek Discovers Olds 0
Via Raw Story, Newsweek discovers that Facebook drops persistent cookies that track you even when you are not browsing Facebook.
This is not news. This is olds.
This is why, for years, the few times I visit Facebook, I do so only in a private browser tab that deletes all cookies when it’s closed, and, to be doubly safe, have my browser delete all cookies upon exit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A polite society is a clean society.
The younger sister playfully pointed the gun at her sister and pulled the trigger.
The rifle discharged, and the bullet struck the 8-year-old girl in the neck.
No charges will be filed, because, according to the report, the father was sober and cooperative.
It used to be that being drunk was an acceptable excuse; now it appears that being not drunk has become one.