2018 archive
Endless Loopy 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Edward A. Wasserman considers how positive and negative reinforcement affect Donald Trump’s tweeting behavior. In the course of the article, he muses why negative reactions to Trump’s more outlandish tweets has not resulted in their having been moderated. Then he posits an answer:
I commend the complete article to your attention.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia Linux v. 6 with the Fluxbox window manager using the OxAR style, with the venerable xclock and GKrellM system monitor.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
For the sake of the children, fill your home with politeness.
Officials say the safe was locked but the boy knew where the key was. The little girl took out an unloaded glock pistol, and the boy pulled out a .22 magnum rifle with a bullet in the chamber but no magazine. That’s when the little boy fired the gun, hitting the girl.
This Week in the Trumpling 0
Shorter Shaun Mullen: The truth hurts.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
QOTD 0
Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes. :
I see what everyone else sees, but I think what no one else has thought.
Goldberg, Leonard, A Study in Treason (New York: Minotaur, 2018), p. 11.
Suffer the Children–It’s a Republican Family Value 0
Warning: Language.
Twits on Twitter 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
I have mixed feelings about this stuff. On the one hand, dammit, my parents taught me how to behave in public, and these kids should have known how to behave in public. On the other hand, social media outfits aggressively try to convince their users that said outlets are somehow intimate spaces where they can betray all their most intimate secrets to marketeers express themselves freely.
And teen-aged boys do stupid things.
I know.
I was a teen-aged boy.
As I said, mixed feelings.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Forewarning: The nuns “forced” to buy birth control Sessions referred to were not forced to buy birth control for themselves, as the clip below implies. They were ordered to provide for birth control in their employees’ health coverage.
Aside:
The right wing defines “religious freedom” as freedom for evangelical “Christians” to force their beliefs on others.
If a Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever were to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a Christian in protest of, say, forced conversions to Christianity in Spanish colonies in the 1500s, just to pick something out of thin history, you can bet that would be a whole nother story.