October, 2016 archive
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, October 6.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (JANAF Shopping Center). (Map)
Join the forums.
Sky King Was a Television Show . . . 0
. . . not an alternative universe.
Words fail me.
Afterthought:
Nothing causes me to question my faith more than the antics of believers.
Speaking of Unserious . . . . 0
Catherine Rampell is not enamored of either of the major third-party (yes, I know that’s oxymoronic) candidates:
Johnson and Stein are, on their own merits, terrible, unserious choices. They are unfit for office.
She’s quite right, know. Johnson is a ideologue who believes in the Libertarian fairy tale, and Stein is a nut case. But follow the link to find out Rampell’s reasons.
Current Events 0
In related news, Leonard Pitts, Jr., asks
Since when is knowing things no longer a prerequisite to running for president?
I freely admit that, if challenged to name the head of state in, say, Burkina Faso, I’d have to look it up. But then, I am not running for president. That is, I am not putting myself before my fellow citizens asking that they trust me to steer the ship of state through choppy waters of budgetary challenge, national security and international diplomacy.
In that context, it’s hard to overstate the gall of a Gary Johnson. But the fact that such uninformed — even broadly ignorant — people capture attention and votes and that one of them may even be our next president, also offers a vivid illustration of the unserious nation we have become.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a load of the politeness.
The shooting happened during a Florida Gun Show event at the east Lee County venue.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said that one man was reloading a gun when the weapon discharged. The shot hit the man’s finger and the bullet then wounded the foot of a friend of the gun owner’s standing nearby.
No charges will be filed because hey! stupid happens.
Alien 0
Witchy Woman 0
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
C&L points out that it also racism’s and the racists’ strongest ally:
Follow the link for the full essay.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is the foundation of a successful union.
Claud (Tex) McIver took out his gun while riding with his wife, Diane McIver, because they were worried about a possible carjacking when several people walked toward the car, family friend and spokesman Bill Crane told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday.
The dirty little secret of gunnuttery is that the whole “self defense” thing seldom works out in real life the way it does in John Wayne movies. You don’t get to rehearse and there are no second takes.
“A Choice, Not an Echo” 0
Jack Ohman cites reasons for supporting Donald Trump. A nugget:
Americans arise each morning and see no nuclear fireball on the horizon, no massive civil unrest in the streets, no calamitous economic disruption.
Americans love scary fantasy movies about presidents fighting aliens, apocalyptic science fiction about nuclear winter, and massive global conspiracies involving bald men in black turtlenecks and fist-fighting aboard Air Force One.
I predict all that would happen under a Trump presidency, and more.