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2022 archive

Florida Man 0

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A Pile Up On the Disinformation Superhighway 0

SFGate’s Katie Dowd details the destruction.

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The Acolytes 0

The Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu wonders at the hold Donald Trump has over his followers. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):

. . . conservative values would hardly point to a thrice-married, crotch-grabbing businessman with no military service or defined religious affiliation. Yet people project onto Trump what they want to see: 59% of white evangelical Protestant Republicans said in 2020 that he had strong religious beliefs, according to the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Survey.

Follow the link for the complete article; it’s worth the three or four minutes it will take you to read it.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson explains the difference between an error and a mistake.

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QOTD 0

Jane Jacobs:

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

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Impunity 0

Lemont:  Republicans sure are upset about the FBI going after a criminal.  Susan:  I don't think you can call Donald Trump a

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is a family value.

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Riding on the Disinformation Superhighway 0

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death--are galloping along the Disinformation Superhighway.  A fifth rider, holding a

Via Job’s Anger.

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Trump-Colored Glasses 0

Title:  Never mind the Metaverse!  Join your fellow patriots in the Magaverse.  Frame One:  Red-hated man and companion wearing VR goggles.  Red-hatted man says,

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Freedom of Screech 0

Florida Man.

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QOTD 0

Chauncey Wright:

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

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Geeking Out 0

VirtualBox virtual machine of Slackware –Current with the Plasma Desktop on Mageia v. 8 with the Fluxbox window manager.

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He Must Be Guilty 0

After all, he fits the profile.

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“The Groomer” 0

Title:  Groomer.  Image:  Republican Elephant styling children's hair to spell out

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) discharges his responsibility.

We are a failing state.

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All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

I think I might just read this book . . . .

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Light Bloggery 0

Family matters.

Blogging will be sporadic this week.

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QOTD 0

Euripides:

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Screened In 0

When I was a kid, I would come home from school and then go on long walks or, later, bicycle rides (being, as I was, out in the country surrounded by woods and fields). Today as I drive around my neighborhood, I rarely to see children playing outside.

At Psychology Today Blogs, Jenny Perkel argues cogently that children who remain inside their rooms hidden behind their screens are losing out on valuable growth experiences.

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