April, 2024 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom reviews the racist tactics of the Party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing. Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, and even Barry Goldwater must be turning over in their graves.
Wherever Did He Get That Idea? Dis Coarse Discourse Dept. 0
LZ Granderson has the revolutionary notion that known liars should have no role in covering the news.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness.
An 80-year-old woman is dead after being shot in the head in Jackson.
(snip)
According to the detective, there were multiple shooters. He says they were trying to shoot someone else who was supposed to be at the home, but wasn’t there.
We are a failed society.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
Only the man who knows too little knows too much.
Stout, Rex, The Golden Spiders (New York: Bantam, 1955) p. 10
Meta: Ghost Posts 0
No posts went ghost today.
Still trying to figure out yesterday.
Freedom of Screech 0
Above the Law reports that, following Donald Trump’s attacks on the families of various court personnel, including Judge Merchan’s daughter, Trump’s gag order has been extended to include said family members, but that
Details at the link.
Driven to Destruction 0
The other day, I had a very scary experience.
I was behind a Tesla with a little bumper sticker that said, “I’m probably on autopilot.”
I’m just glad I wasn’t in front of it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More neighborly politeness:
On Saturday, March 30th, police responded to a shots fired call in the area of the Boothsville Apartments in Fairmont.
They spoke to a man who claimed that a bullet went through his wall and up into his ceiling, while he and his 11-year-old daughter were home.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Confederate gentlemen ride again.
The slurs were etched into the side of St. Daniels Community Church of Iron Hill.
Meta: Ghost Posts 0
I seem to be experiencing some issues behind the scenes.
Several posts show in my dashboard as having been posted, but don’t appear on the front page. The odd thing is that the posts show up when I visit the site in a text browser, such as w3m, and there is nothing the posts’ syntax that is out of the ordinary.
I’ll deal with it tomorrow.
Not that, in the great scheme of things, they would be any great loss to humanity . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy points out that grifters gotta grift.