April, 2016 archive
Dreamers 0
I rather get a kick out persons who talk about a “real” Republican Party as if such a thing magically mystically exists on some plane separate and distinct from actual voting Republicans.
My real car is a 2016 Lamborghini. The 13-year old pickup truck is not my real car. It’s just not.
“Republican Family Values” 0
George Washington Plunkett famously said, “There’s honest graft and there’s dishonest graft.”
I challenge you to find any graft in American history more dishonest than the “Republican family values” con.
“A Three Hour Tour” 0
Life imitates art Gilligan’s Island.
U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie said Saturday that the men were reported missing Tuesday by their families after they failed to show up at the island of Weno.
Follow the link for the picture. It’s a peach.
“Nobody Likes You When You Are Down and Out” 0
Sing it, Steve Wynn!
The 74-year-old billionaire then tried to break it down for investors.
“Or to put it in a more colloquial way, rich people only like being around rich people, nobody likes being around poor people — especially poor people,” he said.
LanternAsia, Part One 2
The LanternAsia exhibit is currently at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens. The exhibit consists of images from Chinese culture and mythology constructed of painted silk stretched over wire and metal frames. At night, the images are alight from bulbs placed inside them (we are waiting for warmer weather before seeing them at night).
This is the first of what will likely be three posts of pictures from our stroll through the gardens.
The Walking Braindead 0
Meet the “smombies”:
Stockholm had by far the worst smartphone abusers with 23.6 percent, or nearly a quarter of people on foot distracted by their phones while crossing through traffic.
Amsterdam on the other hand had the lowest number of “smombies” (smartphone zombies) at 8.3 percent of pedestrians, while Berlin fell somewhere in the middle at 14.9 percent.
When I ride my bicycle around my neighborhood, I fear the smombies much more than the car drivers, and I fear a car driving smombie most of all.
Panama Rats, the Moral 1
Daniel Ruth read the Panama Papers and finds a moral:
Yes, countries do saber-rattle. They bluster and fulminate. And occasionally somebody invades somebody else for old times’ sake. But what the Panama Papers prove is the universal glue that holds the world together is greed.
Meanwhile, Above the Law offers this handy graph to help you understand what’s going on here:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
Springfield Police Sgt. John Delaney told WWLP-TV that the teen and a 17-year-old boy were “playing around” with a gun when the firearm went off and hit the girl.
Another day of NRA roulette.
How Stuff Works, Panama Rats Dept. 0
Thom talks with Dr. Richard Wolff about what the “Panama Papers” say about the antics of the plutocracy.
It’s the Algorithm, Stupid 0
I think the notion of an overt Google-Clinton conspiracy theory is a bit over the top, but it is true that search engines filter the results of your searches according to their conclusions about what you would like based on your search history. Accordingly, I think this is worth a listen for the larger message.
Afterthought:
I have noticed that, as the Democratic Convention gets closer and Sanders is not gaining (despite the results of this week’s primaries–look at the numbers), some Sanders fans are joining the hysterical party. I say this as someone who would quite happily support Sanders, were he to be the nominee.