September, 2022 archive
Geeking Out 0
Yet another screenshot of Mageia v. 8 (I’ve come to really like Mageia) with Fluxbox (which I’ve like for a long, long time). Again, the wallpaper is from my collection.
The Art of the Con 0
At The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Janet Y. Jackson show that she can recognize talent when she sees it.
Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates that the phrase “reponsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Judicial Rebuke 0
Judge ridicules Donald Trump’s trumped up RICO suit against Hilary Clinton.
Here’s a bit from the report:
Follow the link for said distillation.
Establishmentarians 0
At The Seattle Times, Heather L. Weaver and Daniel Mach parse the sophistry in the Supreme Court’s decision the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the case about the preying praying football coach. A snippet:
Death Sentence 0
Aside:
Many years ago, a friend and co-worker of mine died of AIDS, back when it was still referred to by many as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency disease) and was therefore considered by far too many persons, somehow and sickeningly, to be no big deal.
At the time, he was still in Washington at Amtrak headquarters and I had been transferred to Philly, but, after his diagnosis was known to those that cared, I had the good fortune to run into him on the platform at Washington Union Station and we shared a farewell hug.
(I will add that his supervisor, one of the company’s vice presidents, treated him with kindness, consideration, and charity.)
He was a good man and a good friend.
These hate-full bigots who call themselves “Christian” worship no Jesus that I know.
Deja Vu All Over Again 0
As Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Missing the Mythic Past 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson waxes optimistic about the fate of what President Biden refers to as “MAGA Republicans,” who bristled at his referring to their credo as “semi fascism.”
I’m not sure I can wholly buy into Johnson’s optimism, but there is one bit of his article that particularly caught my attention:
Consider that passage and ask yourself whether it describes anyone in contemporary American politics.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Trump’s Tchotchkes 0
Sam and his crew skewer the sophistry of Trump’s sycophants as regards Trump’s theft of government documents.