2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Officers responded at around 7 p.m. to the 2300 block of East MacArthur and located the 30-year-old man who had a gunshot wound to his leg. The girl’s hand was also injured. Their injuries were not life-threatening.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
The Surgeon-General calls out the role of “social” media in spreading disinformation about COVID-19. A nugget (emphasis added):
He went on to note that social media algorithms often target users by pushing posts similar to ones that the user has interacted with in the past, “putting us deeper and deeper into a well of misinformation.”
Cooking the Books 0
F. T. Rea remembers the whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) of Southern history.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Honest to Pete, you’d think he was old enough to know better.
Know-Nothings Redux 0
The editors of The Roanoke Times paired this image with a column by Leonard Pitts, Jr., who points out that
So how did it become this sudden four-alarm fire in the house of democracy? The answer is depressingly simple. It is this year’s War on Christmas. It’s sharia law, gay wedding cake, and New Black Panthers. Which is to say, it is this year’s spur by which the white right, more easily stampeded than a herd of cattle by a lightning strike, is prodded to feel resentful, frightened and besieged — and vote accordingly.
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I Just Finished Updating My Windows 8 Virtual Machine 0
Windows is a kludge.
Stray Thought 0
CPAC is not a “political action committee.”
It’s a society of sociopaths.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Lego maintains that politeness should not appear to be child’s play (more at the link; emphasis added).
The Danish manufacturer of the building blocks has sent the Utah-based company, Culper Precision, a demand to stop producing the red, blue and yellow covering for handguns.
“Our organisation reached out to Lego, which then sent a cease and desist letter to the reckless gun maker,” said Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action, which advocates for stricter gun controls.
A US gun maker has triggered controversy by selling a kit that makes a real Glock pistol look like a children’s Lego toy gun, at a time when hundreds of kids are falling victim to shootings.This is truly twisted.