September, 2018 archive
Meta: KCEA 0
In case you wonder why I link to KCEA so often, I offer two reasons.
It plays swing, my Daddy’s music, of which I have become very fond (though he preferred Glen Miller and I prefer Benny Goodman), and–this is the primary reason, as there are other swing music sites on the internet but only a few as good as KCEA and I know because I’ve explored them–listening to KCEA as I drifted off to sleep helped me through one of the worst times of my life a couple of years before I started this blog. I guess you can say I’ve been listening to KCEA for a long time.
I’ve even kicked in a donation, and you can too.
“Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly” 0
Paul Krugman comments on the failed Republican effort to gin up a substitute for the Affordable Care Act. A nugget:
Do please read the rest.
(Misplet wrod fxied.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness proceeds apace.
The man was shot in the upper body by his brother, 50, while they were hunting at the Brushy Creek State Recreation Area. Officials believe the shooting was an accident.
Because he looked so much like a tree-dwelling rodent, no doubt . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron and Chauncey Devega discuss the overt racism of Donald Trump, his supporters, and his enablers.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
The trouble was that I was sore. You can work when you’re sore, or eat or sleep or fight, but you can’t think straight.
Stout, Rex, “Blood Will Tell,” Trio for Blunt Instruments (New York: Bantam, 2002), p. 180
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how racism and racist violence have ramped up in the last few years and suggests that the unifying force on the far right is hatred.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice random acts of politeness.
Leonard was watching football with friends when he heard a gunshot.
“I walked into the room and saw that he was hurt in the hand and was yelling and the girls were yelling,” Leonard explained.
Leonard said he found his best friend, Dustin Melton, and a teenage girl bleeding.
“What’s going on what’s going on?” Leonard added. “Then I saw that she had a gunshot wound and I got the phone to call 911.”
Leonard said Melton accidentally fired his gun.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ghost doesn’t stand a politeness of a chance. Or something.
Follow the link for more spectral speculation.