2021 archive
Mulling Over Pulling Over 0
In an odd bit of synchronicity yesterday, both a columnist at AL.com and the writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times tell stories of traffic stops that occurred in their pasts.
In both cases, they wonder whether, if they had been not-white, they’d be alive to tell their tales. Follow the links for their stories.
Geeking Out 0
A VirtualBox VM of Windows 8 on Ubuntu MATE under the Fluxbox window manager. The Ubuntu wallpaper is from my collection. The Windows wallpaper is from a Windows theme.
Maskless Marauders 0
And an extra added bonus marauder.
The stupid. It burns.
Afterthought:
I really don’t get it. I can’t say that I like wearing a mask, but it’s the most minimal of minimal inconveniences.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
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.
Follow the Money 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice looks at a law firm that’s cashing in on representing maskless marauders and anti-vaxxers.
Vaccine Nation 0
Kyle Whitmire looks at Alabama’s recent ban on vaccine passports immunization records and concludes that it is a bill passed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing (except potential fodder for campaign rhetoric).
Vaccine Nation 0
The evidence that we are a society of stupid continues to mount.
Details at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Scatter politeness where ye may,
Tho’ little children may be at play.
(snip)
The gun that Lancaster turned in was the third one left at a beach rental that week, according to Kill Devil Hills police. The cleaning service owner said she has heard of other house cleaners finding guns that were left behind.
Afterthought:
I must say I find this rather surprising. One would expect fetishists to keep better track of the objects of their affection.
Stray Question 0
When television bright lights end a series’s season with a cliffhanger, are they seriously expecting the audience to remember it week later, let alone breathlessly obsess over it all summer?
Furrfu.
(The last NCIS episode of the season is the proximate cause of this question, but it goes for all of those that do this.)