2018 archive
“Eenie Weenie Chili Beany” 0
I was recently at a gathering which is aggressively a-political. In the years I’ve been associated with this group, politics has come up as many times as I have thumbs.
This time, one of the attendees started to talk to me about the mid-term elections (I think this person leans right, but I also know that he is not insane).
I cut him off, quickly, but not sharply, saying, “I don’t predict.”
But Shaun Mullen sometimes does.
DARVO 0
Carol A. Lambert notices a classic pattern in Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony about Christine Balsey Ford’s accusations. A snippet; follow the link for more.
Having examined over a thousand relationships, I see the DARVO pattern in my work with women who have controlling partners. In almost every single case of intimate partner abuse—physical, psychological, or emotional abuse—when women attempt to address a partner’s hurtful behavior or abuse, they end up being attacked and ultimately accused of being the abusive one.
Stray Thought 0
If the behavior of the cats is a gauge, mopping the kitchen floor is easily the most interesting thing I have ever done.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner hunts for politeness.
The man, Richard Hannibal, was walking dogs along Richmond Mills Road when a single pellet from the round struck him in the chest, said Lt. Kevin Adam of the Maine Warden Service in a news release. According to police scanner reports, the pellet didn’t break Hannibal’s skin, but did give him a welt. He declined to be treated or taken to the hospital.
Giving the Polity the Business 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Professors James Bailey and D. Christopher Keys explore why the idea of “running the government like a business” so regularly fails, often spectacularly. They cite three reasons; here’s one:
We are watching today what happens when a President decides to appeal to just one group of stakeholders, the Red Hats, and it’s not pretty.
Afterthought:
The overriding factor that unites the reasons the authors cite is one often ignored by those who would “run the government like a business” and is quite simple. Government is not a business.
“Republicans for Integrity” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explores an oxymoron.
“It’s What They Want You To Think” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Grant Hilary Brenner explores “The Three Core Traits of Conspiracy Theorists.”
Warning: He ain’t the best writer in the world, but this is still worth a read.
Geeking Out 0
Listening to KCEA on QMMP in a VirtualBox virtual machine of Windows 7 in seamless mode on Slackware 14.2 under the Fluxbox window manager while reading a Nero Wolfe mystery.
In the upper right corner of the screen, beneath the Windows menubar, is xclock running on the Slackware host; below it is the GKrellM system monitor with the “Invisible” theme, also running on the host. (I have used both GKrellM and Conky. Conky is a bit more versatile, but I prefer GKrellM because it’s more compact.)
Afterthought:
Fifteen years ago, I would not have understood a word of this except for the “Nero Wolfe” part.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen has the intelligence reports.