August, 2020 archive
School Daze 0
Sam and his caller discuss back to school plans in these viral times.
Geeking Out 0
Listening to Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar at OTRnet in a VirtualBox VM of Windows 8 on Ubuntu MATE using the Fluxbox window manager.
Every time I use Windows, I am reminded of what a kludge Windows is.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Aside:
It has been my experience (and I have been unemployed, though I was lucky enough never to have to collect unemployment) that persons are almost never unemployed by choice, but almost always by circumstance.
The notion that persons can live satisfactorily on unemployment benefits is a fiction propagated by the rich and heartless.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Gaming the Numbers 0
The Department of Commerce is attempting to screw with skew the census. Here’s a bit from the report. I’ve emphasized their lamer excuse, which almost implies that they are doing their arithmetic by hand:
The latest updates to the bureau’s plans are part of efforts to “accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, as required by law and directed by the Secretary of Commerce,” who oversees the bureau, Director Steven Dillingham said in the written statement posted on the bureau’s website.
These last-minute changes to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the U.S. threaten the accuracy of population numbers used to determine the distribution of political representation and federal funding for the next decade.
What’s in a Name? 0
Juanita Jean has a suggestion as to an appropriate name for the malr equivalent of a “Karen.”
QOTD 0
Sheila Sim, as Miss Frayle in the Doctor Morelle mystery, “Act of Violence”:
It must be marvelous always to feel so sure you are right, and that the other person must be wrong.
Noing Postal? 0
Warning: Short ad at the end.
See the news reports David refers to at these links:
USPS considering closing post offices ahead of presidential election
Postal Service says it has ‘ample capacity’ to handle election after Trump casts doubt
And here’s a related report I saw earlier today:
Postal Union Leader Warns Assault on USPS Puts US on “Path Toward Dictatorship”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Sheriff Rowles of Newton County, Louisiana, reports:
Immunity Impunity, Driving while Black Dept.
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There’s a reason different states’ license plates have different color schemes.
Plus, in my experience, automobiles are generally somewhat larger than motorcycles (emphasis added).
(snip)
Police then determined they had stopped the wrong car. It had Colorado license plates but a motorcycle with the same license plate number from Montana was the vehicle that had been reported as stolen on Sunday.
More at the link.
The GOP Spinning Wheel 0
Job’s Anger.