August, 2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, we find that a polite society is a clean society.
And, once again, we are shown that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
“That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means” 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Professor of Political Philosophy Solomon D. Stevens argues that those who claim that taking simple measures to protect the public health, arguing that such measures somehow violate their “rights,” clearly do not understand the concept of “rights” in civil society. An excerpt (emphasis added):
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Andrew Hibbard:
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
Stout, Rex, The League of Frightened Men (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 13.
Vaccine Nation, “Words Mean What I Want Them To Mean” Dept. 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun highlights the hypocrisy.
The Olympic Wrestler 0
Janet Jones, who holds a doctorate and works with horses and riders, explains why the statue of the sumo wrestler at the Olympic steeplechase competition spooked some of the horses. A nugget:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show your politeness to the nice TSA agent.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers caught the man with a 9mm handgun loaded with seven bullets, including one in the chamber, at one of the airport security checkpoints on August 5.
The story goes on to say that it was the third instance of someone’s trying to pack heat in the fiendly skies in a week.
Facebook Frolics 0
Says the frolicker: My posts “do not reflect who I am today, what I stand for or how I will conduct myself as St. Petersburg’s next mayor.”
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Austin American-Statesman, William Lambers remembers Dwight Eisenhower’s other V-Day and argues that we should follow Ike’s precedent. An excerpt:
True Believers 0
Farron, sitting in for David, discusses an article by Chancey DeVega discussing Trump loyalists fealty to their dear leader.
Read the article that Farron discusses.
The Snaring Economy 0
The EFF explains how Doordash dashed its “independent contractors’ wage slaves’ hopes of equitable remuneration by keeping them from knowing what their tips would be. A nugget:
But what’s good for Dashers wasn’t good for Doordash: the company wants to fulfill orders, even if doing so means that a driver spends more on gas than they make in commissions. Hiding tip amounts from drivers allowed the company to keep drivers in the dark about which runs they should make and which ones they should decline.
That’s why Doordash changed its data-model to prevent Para from showing drivers tips. And rather than come clean about its goal of keeping drivers from knowing how much they would be paid, it made deceptive “privacy and data security” claims.
Follow the link for an explanation as to how Doordash’s claims earned the label, deceptive.
(Broken link fixed.)