2018 archive
QOTD 0
Rex Stout (in the voice of Archie Goodwin):
. . . the doorbell rang, and I went to the front door and opened up, and found confronting me a vacuum cleaner salesman. Or anyhow he should have been. He had that bright, friendly, uninhibited look.
Stout, Rex, The Silent Speaker (New York: Bantam, 1958), p. 19
LanternAsia v. 2, Part Two 4
Some more pictures from LanternAsia. See the rest of the posts in this series Part One. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six.
Sea Life–click for a larger image.
“A Nation of Immigrants” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Arash Emamzadeh explores why citizens of a country which has proudly billed itself “a nation of immigrants” and who are themselves descendants of immigrants* have chosen to hate immigrants.
Give it a read.
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*I exempt Native Americans from this statement. They aren’t doing the hating.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A recipe for politeness at the confluence of guns and stupid:
Warren police say Garlock put the gun in the broiler because children were coming over.
His girlfriend, unaware of the gun’s presence, turned on the oven Sunday to bake. Police say she called out to Garlock when she thought she heard a gunshot fired outside. Police say Garlock was struck by bullets or bullet fragments when they exploded inside the gun.
The person who wrote the story decided to be all cutesy-poo and point out that “no charges have been filed against the oven,” but, then, it wasn’t the oven that was stupid and negligent was it?
It wasn’t the girlfriend, either. How many of you open the oven door to check for weaponry before turning on the broiler?
Fuffu.
LanternAsia v. 2, Part One 5
LanternAsia returned to the Norfolk Botanical Garden this spring and we finally got a chance to visit it. It was here two years ago. This time, it was mostly new exhibits; only three of the exhibits from 2016 were repeated.
See the rest of the posts in this series: Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six.
Here are some of the pictures I took. More will follow.
Goldfish with Bubbles–click for a larger image
Twits on Twitter, Base Desires Dept. 0
In a thoughtful article that slices through the fog of point-counterpoint claims about Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and the subsequent cancellation of her television show, Bret Stephen’s concludes
Follow the link to learn why he reached that conclusion.
“Is It or Isn’t It?” 0
Elie Mystal investigates the convoluted conundrum of Schrodinger’s Pardon.
Allie-Allie-in-Free? 0
Thom discusses that question.
Frankly, I fear that I share Thom’s pessimism.
