2018 archive
https://www.gocomics.com/robrogers/2018/07/18“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite while patronizing the big box store.
Police told Western Mass News the man was reaching for his phone when he accidentally discharged his gun at the Costco on Daggett Drive around 6 p.m.
“This Is Not a Dog Whistle. This Is a Bullhorn.” 0
Thom cuts to the chase.
The Deal 0
Mike Littwin is not optimistic. A snippet from his article:
I don’t expect that to happen. I don’t expect much to happen. Some are suggesting that any Trump aide with a conscience should resign. Some are suggesting that if this crisis heats up, there could be the need for a scapegoat. John Kelly, anyone?
If you think this is a crisis point for America — and I certainly do — that doesn’t mean you have to believe it will play out any differently from all the rest. Isn’t the essence of Trumpworld that we now live in the post-tipping-point era?
Image via Job’s Anger.
Nomenclature 0
F. T. Rea explains what’s in a name.
Really? 2
I guess ESPN just gave up on competing with the baseball all-star game.
While we’re at it, can’t we agree that cornhole is a most unfortunately yclept pursuit?
(Missplet wrod corectted.)
Roots 0
The Smoking Gun points out that Donald Trump seems to have made up his forebears at ancestry-dot-con.
A Book from My Past Comes to Life 0
One of my favorite books when I was a kid was produced by that same potboiler mill that produced the Tom Swift series. My father had several of their output, old books from the 1920s and 1930s that my father had read and that my grandparents had stuffed in boxes in the attic. There were a few Tom Swifts, a couple of Bobbsey Twins, a Destroyer Boys (set in WWI), and maybe a few others.
Foxy Davy 0
David describes his experience on Fox News and dissects the Fox host’s tactics for twisting the talk.
Conundrum 0
Yes, it is possible to disapprove of something and delight in it simultaneously.
The Cloning 0
Shaun Mullen has more. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
QOTD 0
Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock (the daughter of Sherlock Holmes*):
Greed has no end. It is like a bottomless well that cannot be filled. And at time the wealthiest are the worst offenders.
Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017), p. 252.
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*Purported daughter.
William S. Baring-Gould proved conclusively that Nero Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes, conceived in circumstances incompatible with the story of Joanna Blalock. Nevertheless, Goldberg’s pastiche is still a ripping good yarn.