2023 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic responsible gun owner exposes her child to politeness.
We are a broken society.
Twits Own Twitter 0
In related news, Paul Krugman asks, “What’s in a name?” A snippet:
And he’s been flailing wildly ever since.
Freedom of Screech 0
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk absolutely threatens to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate for exercising free speech.
Facebook Frolics 0
Have you been assimilated by the Zuckerborg? You might be due some ducats.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew stand aghast at Fox News’s Jesse Watters’s defending Florida Man’s claim that slaves learned skills while enslaved, so that, somehow, being stolen from their homes, transported across the sea while bound in chains, and whipped into submission by their “owners” was therefore somehow a good thing.
How do these people sleep at night?
Oh, I forgot.
Money.
It buys souls, at least, those souls that are for sale.
The Fire This Time 0
Afterthought;
Yesterday, we finally got a break from two weeks of oppressive heat.
I must say, I cannot remember a heat wave which felt so oppressive as this one. I’ve been known to ride my bicycle in 90s Fahrenheit weather and still enjoy the ride, but this time I stuck to the inside bike.
I am not sanguine.
I fear we are well past the tipping point.
It’s Bubblicious 0
They live in their own little world.
(Of course, occasionally, the bubble bursts and spews its noxious comments about.)
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Connie Stevens and the Arthur Lyman Group perform the Hawaiian Eye theme song. (The Hawaiian Village was the hotel where the Hawaiian Eye detective agency was based. It was bought by Hilton about halfway through the run of the show.)
Precedented 0
Writing at the Bangor Daily News, Gordon Weil suggests that there is an historical precedent for Donald Trump, but that it’s not necessarily who you might expect. Here’s a bit:
The king in question is King George III of Great Britain, a man we like to dislike.
Methinks he makes a pretty good case. Follow the link for his reasoning.
“The Victim Complex” 0
Farron suggests that Trump voters fear that karma is real and that it’s coming for them.
I Feel Like I Know This Person from Somewhere . . . . 0
Does this remind you of anyone in the news?
The Price of Admission 0
In his remarks, the artist notes that
Competition for elite colleges, whatever that means, is fierce. Over the past several decades these august institutions of higher learning have squeezed enrollment to the point where the only way to get in is to be extraordinary or have your dad donate a library.
Alien Nation 0
Snopes parses the persiflage about the recent House of Representatives hearing about UAPS (what used to be called UFOs) and concludes that, based on what we know today, there’s no there there.