2018 archive
Meta: Stats 0
I just reinstalled a statistics plugin.
I removed it when I was trying to troubleshoot the issues I was having back in February, issues which, with the help of my most excellent hosting provider, seem to have been resolved for several months now. At the time, I was getting about 600-700 unique visitors a day (not too bad for a small blog in the backwaters of the inner webs, AFAIC).
I was talking with my friend today about completing the day’s blogging (since I mostly do what I call “drive-by” posts–Hey! this looks interesting–I shoot for eight or nine posts a day) and she wondered how many persons visit this site. I told her that, right now, for the above-mentioned reason, I don’t really know, but feeding the blog helps me keep sane during this time of danger to our polity.
As I said, I don’t know right now how many visitors I have, but I do care, because I hope that some persons find my ramblings useful, interesting, or, at least, diverting.
“The Best People” 0
Dick Polman takes on a personnel matter.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a drop on politeness.
The brief report does not say, but I suspect the weapon in question was a large calibre rapid-fire stupid.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Elie Mystal points out that Kris Kobach is a courting disaster.
QOTD 0
Averell Harriman:
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
Aside:
How very quaint.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Now it’s “partisan” to condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.
As I said a few days ago, they aren’t even trying to pretend any more.
Facebook Fakebook Frolics
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Heh.
“Within the last year, the social media site has published over 50 fake Martin Lewis adverts which are regularly seen, likely by millions of people, in the UK,” complained Lewis. “The most prevalent are get-rich-quick schemes currently titled ‘Bitcoin code’ or ‘Cloud Trader’, which are fronts for binary trading firms based outside the EU.”
More at the link.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
Well, almost everybody.
White Coffee (Updated) 0
The Des Moines Register’s Daniel Finney tells a story. Here’s how it starts:
He wore a gray hoodie, baggy pants, a ball cap pulled down to cover his eyes and about five days’ worth of growth on his face.
He picked up two newspapers — retail value: about $5 — and sat down at a table. He purchased no food.
A Starbucks employee cleaning countertops and taking out the trash said, “Hello.”
The man nodded but did not speak.
He proceeded to read the newspapers he had not paid for.
Follow the link to see how it ends.
Addendum, Later that Same Afternoon:
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stephen Greenspan offers some thoughts.