May, 2020 archive
American Exceptionalism: Everybody Except America 2
Afterthought:
This is what can happen in a two-party “system” when one of the two major political parties decides that there is no such thing as the common good.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The San Franscisco Chronicle’s John Diaz points out that the bad guys are already inside the building.
“What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us,” Reprise 0
E. J. Montini suggests a motive for Trump’s firing (so far five) Inspectors-General.
If you never allowed yourself to be examined by a doctor would that mean you’d never get sick?
That’s how Donald Trump wants to run the federal government.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another responsible gun owner discharges his responsibilty.
Around 10:30 p.m., officers learned someone was driving recklessly near Clay Street and Presidio Avenue, doing “donuts” and firing a gun.
Aside:
There’s been a who-shot-john (you will pardon the expression) going on in the letters to editor of my local rag about gunnuttery. It’s been both amusing and predictable.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 7 with the Fluxbox window manager, the GKrellM system monitor, QMMP, and Xclock. Claws-mail and Firefox are shaded in a tabbed window.
“What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us” 0
In line with Sam Seder’s comment that I cited earlier this week,
That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: If we don’t have evidence, there’s no way for people to know about it . . . .
now comes Florida Man (much, much more at the link):
Rebekah Jones, whose work to build the user-friendly COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard drew praise and publicity, said her commitment to maximum transparency resulted in her removal from the dashboard project.
Meta: Rescheduling 0
I’ve removed a post that I mistakenly posted earlier today because it was out of sequence (hard as it may be to believe, sometimes a little planning–not much, but some–goes into this thing). It will reappear later in sequence.
