2015 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
So completely did the South win the peace that no one dares to point out that it was the flag of treason.
The Candidates Debate 0
I gave up watching candidate debates a long time ago. I can always read about them later.
They’re too much like NCAA football games: Three hours of blather surrounding eleven minutes of action under the auspices of some of the worst people in the world.
Here are reports from some brave souls who watched the Republican debate so I didn’t have to.
Werner Herzog’s Bear. (If you follow only one of these links, make this the one.)
Historiann. (If you follow only two of these links, make this the other one.)
Facebook Frolics 0
Forwarded frolics, yes sir, right here in River City.
And the readers react. (I can’t find a way to link to the topic and I’m too lazy to link to each one, so by tomorrow they will be off the front page,* but, boy, are they a hoot. Most of them are horrible hoots, but hoots nonetheless.
Persons’ pretzel logic to rationalize their bigotry can astound. I wonder who many of them realize that their reasoning amounts to
if a = b then c = Waldorf salad?
In related news . . . .
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*A search should turn up most of them.
The Privatization Scam 0
North Carolina has a new twist on the Privatization Scam.
I can see the outcome now: the rich will get richer and the sick will get sicker.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Some folks just can’t handle politeness.
And, in more news of the polite . . . .
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*I got a dollar to a doughnut that “fondling” would have been a more accurate term.
Attack of the Fembots 0
This should be interesting. A user of the Ashley Madison electronic adultery emporium and canoodling clearing house has filed suit:
The piece goes on to point out that precedent may be on the plaintiff’s side.
Wilding . . . 0
. . . except that the “wilders” are not who you think they are. A bit from Leonard, Pitts, Jr.:
Not to put too fine a point on it, but something’s very wrong when you can’t tell the cops from the robbers.
Geeking Out 0
Compiled a new kernel from Ubuntu 15.04 for Ubuntu 14.04 running in a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Took three tries before I got it right.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
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The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 272,500 from 275,750 the week before.
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The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits declined by 26,000 to 2.24 million in the week ended Sept. 5.
The Republican Party is convening to determine how to counter this trend.