2018 archive
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
This confounded rancor is a pimple on the brain.
Stout, Rex, “Eeny Meeny Murder Mo” in Homicide Trinity (New York: Bantman, 1966), p. 14.
Limitations of Statues 0
A letter-writer to the Raleigh News and Observer spots a false equivalence.
Stupid Headline of the Day 0
In hindsight, Democrats probably should have seen Trump’s 360 on gun control coming
I doubt any Democrat, or anyone else for that matter, was surprised that Donald Trump’s words mean nothing.
More to the point, “360,” really?
Someone needs to spend some quality time with a protractor.
A Lie Too Far 0
San Francisco, California, ICE spokesman quits because he’s tired of lying for Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. A snippet (full story at the link):
A quibble: A “misleading fact” is not a fact. It’s a lie.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite while visiting a retail establishment.
Becker said the man shot himself while reholstering a semi-automatic weapon he was showing an armory employee. He said the man, who he declined to identify, was alert before being taken by medic to an area hospital.
Voiceless of the People 0
Scott Walker moves from gutting out the vote to gutting the vote itself.
Aside:
I do not wholly endorse Pap’s gratuitous remarks about Eric Holder, but I do submit that he has a point about the reluctance to prosecute Wall Street fraudsters.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
There was a young Trumpler from Nantucket . . . .
Between 4 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday, someone vandalized the island’s African Meeting House, spray-painting a racial slur and the word “leave” on its door alongside a crudely drawn penis on its shingled facade, according to Nantucket’s police chief William Pittman and photos of the scene.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in the parking lot.
(snip)
Police determined the gunshot wound was self-inflicted as a result of an accidental handgun discharge.
Break Time 0
VSO.
They will be performing my favorite bit of music, more favorite than anything by the Airplane or Cannonball Addelery or Benny Goodman or even Eydie Gorme (I admit it. I’ve had a crush on Eydie Gorme since I was a teen): Rimsky-korsakov’s marvelous Scheherazade. It’s the only classical piece I enjoy more than anything by Beethoven.
Later:
They nailed it.