September, 2022 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
The EFF has released a guide on how to wean yourself off Facebook entitled “How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends.” If you’re tired of being assimilated by the Zuckerborg, you may want to check it out.
Here’s a bit from their announcement, in which they discuss the dialectic of Facebook, that is, that persons keep using it even though they’ve come to loathe it:
We think there’s a different explanation: disgruntled Facebook users keep using the service because they don’t want to leave behind their friends, family, communities and customers.
Aside:
Yesterday, I was on the phone with a representative of a local service company arranging for a routine service call. Somehow, the small talk turned to “social” media. The person on the other end of the line said (I’m paraphrasing here), “I canceled my Facebook account. I was afraid that I would feel less connected, but actually I feel more connected . . . .”
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk is aghast at the mean for the sake of mean.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy is back from vacation.
Unchecked and Unbalanced 0
Read about the Stanford Prison Study and consider, does it remind you of any dynamic in our recent news? (The link I posted is to an article at the Britannica; a web search will turn up many more references.)
I would argue that it exemplifies why the Founders placed a high value on “checks and balances” in governance and why it is important to respect the rights of the disadvantaged on par with the rights of the advantaged.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
One more time, “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
And our police and media must stop pretending that they are.
Those Tender Fee-Fees, Reprise 0
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At my local rag, Margaret Edds discusses Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s apparent reluctance to allow schools to teach history that actually happened. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
Such developments must not signal a retreat from a long-overdue, more truthful telling of Virginia history.
Afterthought:
She says “they must not,” but I got a dollar to a doughnut that they do, at least as long as the party of the New Secesh holds power.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet again, politeness becomes child’s play in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Forced Bussing 0
I’m so old that I can remember when racist bigots were against forced bussing.
If at First You Don’t Secede, Try, Try Again 0
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Aside:
I agree with Farron that these persons are, indeed, bonkers.
They are also dangerous.
Where is HUAC when we need them? Because it doesn’t get much more unAmerican than this.
