July, 2024 archive
The Fear Factor 0
Methinks Rat has a point.
Aside:
In the late 1990s, I was working for a company that manufactured security software. Their programmers were working like mad to make sure their software made it into 2000 without any issues.
One of my neighbors was so freaked out by the hype around Y2K that he bought a generator. It was I swear the world’s loudest home generator with the world’s most sensitive auto-switch. The slightest little blip in the current–one that you didn’t even notice if you were watching TV at the time, one so small that it didn’t even make the lights blink–would cause it to come on and wake the neighborhood.
The Lake Effect 0
David decodes de code.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Continuing in a similar vein, it appears that another “responsible gun owner” has succumbed to the “pull of the portable phallus.”
“The resident of 91 Waterford Rd. later identified as 30-year-old Vincent Martin of Harrison, produced a handgun and shot at the teens numerous times, striking one victim in the right calf causing serious, but non-life-threatening injuries,” the release stated.
We are a broken society.
Fatal Attraction 0
Using the recent incident at the Republican National Convention as a starting point, Professor Arie W. Kruglanski explores the pull of the portable phallus, why the disaffected feel so gun. In light of the soaring number of shootings in the United States, methinks it a worthwhile read. Here’s a tiny bit:
(Broken link fixed.)
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Using the shooting at Donald Trump as a starting point, the Seattle Times’s Melissa Davis looks at the speed with which dis- and misinformation spreads over “social” media. A snippet:
And the rumors don’t slow down.
I commend the entire article to your attention. And, remember, “social” media isn’t.
Old Timey Kingdoms 0
Thom discusses the Republican plan to undo the American revolution and reduce America to a monarchy under Trump.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” shows off her politeness.
(snip)
“We have a witness that was next door that heard people laughing and seemed like they were just having a good time,” Sgt. McCombs said.
According to McCombs, Morales was showing the victim her gun while trying to detach the magazine; that’s when the firearm went off and hit the victim in the head.
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.
Craven Images 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders just what kind of God these Republicans worship anyway?
Disparate Treatment 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, law professor Samantha Buckingham wonders how Donald Trump’s numerous criminal trials might have gone if he were not protected by his (reputed) wealth.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments on the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks is a proud Wisconsinite, and although he wasn’t REALLY asked to write the official Republican National Convention Song, he learned from Trump that it’s not what you do, but what you SAY you do that matters in our post-truth MAGA America, and Mangy SAYS he wrote the National Convention Song and Mangy has been an official in a children’s soccer game once, so his claim is just as honest as Trump’s pussy-grabbing statements or his “I never took any documents” claims.
