March, 2017 archive
Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0
Remember, the “compromise’ has a footnote. It puts “a moratorium on local ordinances regulating public accommodations or private employment practices until Dec. 1, 2020.” In other words, it strips localities from enacting their own anti-discrimination laws, because–oh, hell, I’ll be blunt–discrimination is a Republican Family Value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Let a little politeness into your relationship.
That bullet passed through a wall and struck the woman who was in the bathroom. She died a short time after officers arrived.
Down at the Farm 0
What joy, to be greet by the dreaded “Error Creating a Database Connection” error message before my first cup of coffee.
A quick visit to phpMyAdmin fixed it.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
TPM notes that IOKIYAR:
A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.
They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote–or even a hearing–last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
More at the link.
Wow. Just Wow. 0
In The Roanoke Times, a Radford University history professors takes a wingnut to the cleaners.
An excerpt from the first paragraph:
It gets better.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Inculcate politeness from a young age.
Where There’s Smoke . . . . 0
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I remember my first business trip to L. A. It was in the late spring around 1980.
The weather was hot, the sky was orange, and the air burned my eyes.
