2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet more neighborly politeness . . . .
Her 17-year-old son said he was the one who found her lifeless body in the bed. Authorities said they found a bullet hole in the wall of the apartment.
Foley’s neighbor told police his gun went off while he was cleaning the weapon.
The story goes on to report that the neighbor “forgot” there was a shell in the chamber. It left out the part about his being too stupid to have a gun in the first place.
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.
Facebook Frolics 0
Through the glasses, darkly . . . .
Afterthought:
The surveillance state is real, fueled, not by the government, but by private greed shilling for sales and by pathetic individuals shouting into their “smart” phones, “Look at me, me, me, me! I’m an influencer!”
The Galt and the Lamers 0
A self-proclaimed “ex-objectivist” tries to differentiate between Randian “objectivism” and “libertarianism.” Sam suggests that that’s a distinction without a difference.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at nola.com, James Gill has had enough. A snippet:
America has had mandatory vaccinations for various diseases going back to the days of George Washington, and the current hysteria over the imaginary threat they pose to individual liberty is nothing new either. So far, sweet reason has always prevailed in the end, and so it will this time once we accept that there is no rational debate to be held with those who refuse to take precautions.
(Broken link fixed.)
Geeking Out 0
Listening to The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume using QMMP on Ubuntu MATE under the Plasma Desktop. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Aside:
The Bishop’s Secret is a darn good listen. As a mystery, it is so-so. As a comedy of manners, it is superb.
Vaccine Nation 0
In related news, the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini marvels at the pretzel logic of those who would perpetuate pandemics.
The No-Account Recount, Epilog 0
A clip:
Sometimes you have to eat your own to maintain the lie.
A Case of Identity Politics 0
Tim Steller looks at the assumptions behind the voter fraud fraud and Arizona’s no-account recount. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
By logical extension, their votes should not count. And if their votes are counted, democracy itself is the problem.
Aside:
In his list of characteristics, methinks he left out the one that underlies and ties together all the others: Whiteness.
QOTD 0
Pete Seeger:
Afterthought:
Karl Marx was an excellent economist, but a lousy prophet. His analysis of the past was as accurate as his prediction of the future fantastickal.
I have long believed that his prophet’s vision of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” leading to a world of “from each according to his abilities to each according to his means” was a desperate, deluded fantasy–an intellectual short-circuit–born of his economist seeing no way to escape capitalist dystopia.