2018 archive
This Week in the Trumpling 0
Shaun Mullen brings us up to date.
He is less than sanguine.
You may also wish to read Will Bunch’s latest on the Trumpling. Given that the Republican Party has chosen to make party, not polity, its first loyalty, I fear that you will find it less than comforting.
Swampwater 0
President George the Worst’s mercenaries are back in the news.
QOTD 0
Agatha Christie, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:
And originality becomes eccentricity as the years go by?
Christie, Agatha, “Dead Man’s Mirror” in the collection, Dead Man’s Mirror (New York: Berkley, 1984), p. 6.
An Apple for the Teacher 0
North Carolina state superintendent of schools goes on an iJunket.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
This is a Pyrrhic gesture, but a useful one:
Taylor-Made 0
Oh, my.
My elected representative incongruously assembled gets called out for his skulduggery.
Just before announcing his ruling, Richmond Circuit Judge Gregory Rupe told Democratic Party lawyers he agreed that Brown’s name should be removed because members of U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor’s campaign staff collected fraudulent signatures to assist Brown and many petitions may have been illegally notarized before being sent to the state Department of Elections.
Emphasis added.
Details at the link.
I could go on, but I will limit myself to two comments.
The judge got it right.
The judge got it right.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (Today,September 6, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
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 . . . .