July, 2023 archive
Ted Cruz’s Toy Story 0
Afterthought:
Why am I not surprised to learn that Ted Cruz can’t count to nine?
The Disconnect 0
The Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran looks at a recent Monmouth poll showing that over half of the populace thinks that the economy is doing poorly, then he runs the numbers, which indicate quite the opposite. A snippet:
Here are some inconvenient facts for Biden’s critics:
Since he took office, the economy has added 13 million new jobs, the most ever created in a single term. The unemployment rate is 3.6 percent, the lowest it’s been since the 1960s. The rate among Hispanics hit a record low of 3.2 last year, and for Blacks, the all-time low came this spring, when the rate dipped to 4.7 percent.
The man deserves a thumbs-up. But the Monmouth poll shows that 48 percent disapprove of Biden’s performance on jobs, with 47 percent approving.
Follow the link for his thoughts on the disconnect.
Both Sides Don’t 0
Rick Reynolds, writing in the Las Vegas Sun, explains why.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness.
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.
QOTD 0
Frank Gorshin, as the Riddler:
Methinks this fictional character accidentally articulated the axiom of this new gilded age.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A responsible gun owner shoes his politeness to children at his door.
Prioritization 0
If I had an extra four grand lying around, I don’t think I’d spend it on a pair of sunglasses.
QOTD 0
S. S. Van Dine, in the voice of Philo Vance:
The only true and consistent theologians, don’t y’know, are the atheists.
Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Canary Murder Case in
The Philo Vance Murder Cases, vol. 1 (Driffield, Yorkshire, UK: Leonaur LTD, 2010) p. 388.
Disorder in the Court 0
A judge feels constrained to remind a lawyer that “social” media isn’t.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Ames, Iowa, Tribune, Walter Suza explores why some persons are so opposed to DEI (i. e., diversity, equality, and inclusion). A nugget (emphasis added):
DEI is also about becoming willing to admit that inequity has existed in America for so long that it appears as normal. Inequity being normal makes DEI abnormal. The result is some opposing DEI because it threatens their own power or rights , , , ,
