2021 archive
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Republicans are not even trying to hide their intentions any longer.
Read the article Farron discusses.
QOTD 0
A Tune for the Times 0
H/T to my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
The Great Expulsion 0
The Roanoke Times editorial board remembers.
Legacy, Headline of the Day Dept. 0
A new term enters international discourse.
Aside:
I do not know enough about the politics of Brexit (other than I think Great Britain has shot itself in the foot) to have an opinion on the substance of the news story.
Nevertheless, I find it simultaneously appalling (because I’m capable of shame) and amusing (because I know poetic justice when I see it) that the name of our previous federal executive is now a portmanteau for “arbitrary, capricious, petty, and stupid.”
Enter the Thought Police 0
Cancel culture, Republican style:
Much more at the link.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
David Lazarus investigated a hospital bill. A snippet:
Summers received his insurer’s explanation of benefits recently.
There are any number of things we could nitpick about. But what really jumped out at me was a charge of almost $77,000 for “medical services,” a mysterious fee above and beyond the roughly $5,000 billed separately by Summers’ surgeon and anesthesiologist.
Follow the link for the story of his quest to find out what “medical services” warranted charges at the rate of $25,666.66 an hour for a three-hour outpatient procedure.
Geeking Out 0
Installing OPENSuse into a VirtualBox virtual machine on Mageia v. 7 under the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpaper is from my collection.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
As we all know by now, politeness is child’s play.