January, 2019 archive
No Compromise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Krauss Whitbourne explores the interplay between narcissism and intransigence. Here’s a tiny bit:
Follow the link, read the whole thing, and ask yourself, “Does this sound like anyone on the telly-vision?”
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Tomorrow 0
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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Shaun Mullen meditates on the rise of the New Secesh.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom wonders whether media corporations’ quest for profit is affecting their news coverage, in particular in choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore (or, at least, to de-emphasize).
Ratings Rainbloat 0
PoliticalProf notes that some are asking by Donald Trump’s speech tonight will be on television, when President Obama’s speech about immigration was. He offers a reason:
But the answer is obvious. Donald Trump makes the media money.
This is actually the key point about Trump’s second-act life – roughly everything from the moment his Atlantic City casino collapsed in bankruptcy. From that moment on, Donald Trump has mostly been a tool, a product marketed by others to make themselves money.
Trump wasn’t the boss on The Apprentice. Mark Burnett was. Trump doesn’t build anything. He licenses his name for others to use when they’re building a thing.
More at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
DIY politeness.
Deputies say the 18-year-old stated that he had forgotten there was a bullet in the gun when he started working on it.
Rule one of having a gun is always to check whether it’s loaded.
The stupid. It burns.
Wall-Eyed Piker, One More Time 0
Dick Polman is not sanguine. A snippet (emphasis added):
Thank you, Teddy. Because today we have a massive failure, by inefficiency or otherwise. Today we have a perilous government shutdown that crystallizes everything about Donald Trump that everyone with an ounce of cognitive intellect warned about three years ago. I feel compelled, as a patriot, to point out that what we are now witnessing is an unprecedentedly toxic mix of narcissism and ignorance. Goaded by right-wing media cranks to conflate the phony wall issue into a national crisis, he is stripping 800,000 people of their paychecks and threatening much broader economic damage.
Taking the Hypocritical Oath 0
Robert N. McCauley explores the implications of evangelical “Christians” embrace of Trumpery. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Geeking Out 0
Screen capture of Electric Sheep, a dynamic visual delight, running under xscreensaver on Slackware 14.2:
I took the screenshot by telling Ksnapshot to take a screenshot after [mumble] seconds. Then I put the screensaver into preview mode and Ksnapshot grabbed the capture; I then sent image to the GIMP to crop it, because my monitor is 16:9 and Electric Sheep seems to default to 4:3.
(Note: In the current version of KDE, the Plasma Desktop, Ksnapshot has been renamed “Spectacle” for some fool reason. It seems to work pretty much the same way.)
Mitt the Flip This Company Speaks Out 0
Ben Boychuk, normally a reliable rationalizer of Republicanism, wonders whether Mitt Romney’s criticism of Donald Trump should put us in mind of a passage from the Gospel of Matthew. An excerpt:
