2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner proves that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Happy Birthday to Me 2
As of today, this blog has spent 17 years chronicling the decline of the American polity.
Of course, that was not the original intent.*
But that seems to be what it has become.
___________________
*The original intent was to simply self-host a website from a server in my guest room and learn stuff because I could, after an acquaintance told me that, by using Linux, I could self-host my website. I moved my existing website from members.aol.com to my home web server, one of the original IBM Pentiums which a coworker had given to me, and, on a whim, I added a blog. I brought the site live from my guest room with the help of noip.com on Slackware v. 10.x 17 years ago today.
Of course, I no longer self-host, and the blog is all that remains of my original site, as the rest of it became so outdated as to be no longer relevant to anything. But I shall keep the blog relevant . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
When asked about his role in the ‘fake elector’ scheme meant to steal the 2020 election, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson downplayed his part in it, saying he was only involved in it for “a few seconds”. If only other criminal-types were as brilliant as Ron Johnson, they could have used this foolproof defense. Mangy Fetlocks imagines how such logic might have played out in one other Wisconsin case.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston reflects on the marketplace of ideologues.
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
When I went to college, my parents were able to pay my tuition and I left college debt-free. In contrast, it was only a few years ago that I finished paying off the “parent loans” that I incurred to educate my own kids.
The cost of “higher education” and the student loan industry is a scam and a con designed to extract money from what should be a public good. But, natch, we live in a society that no longer believes in the public good. It believes only in extracting as much money as possible in as many ways as possible from as many people as possible.
Thank the Chicago School.
Immunity Impunity
0
“But he fit my profile . . . .”
The Paper Chase 0
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) treats a loved one with politeness.
We are a decaying society.
Stray Question 0
When you cut through the persiflage, you realize that “woke” means “aware.”
What does that tell you about folks who don’t want persons to be “woke”?
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Suzanne Degges-White explores how “social” media isn’t.