August, 2024 archive
Condo Capers 0
We live in a condo. It’s quite a nicely run condo, with a Board that goes out of its way not to be obnoxious, while taking good care of the communal property.
One of the rules is that residents should not mess with the common areas, for example, by putting signs on the grounds, including, natch, political signs (which, politically inclined as I am, is fine by me).
One of my neighbors has found what is, I must say, a most clever way to circumvent the rules.
He has hung a “Trump 2024” sign from the ceiling of his garage just inside the garage door, so he can open the door and inflict the sign on the rest of us while not technically violating the rules.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery was, like most of what Donald does, shameless, tasteless, and possibly illegal. No one would have been much surprised if he’d brought Kid Rock along to play a song or two while Trump danced on some heroes graves, or perhaps Trump might have lain on the lid of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while yelling, “Look at me. I’m a hero too”. (You can be sure if Trump had done this, Jesse Watters of Fox Network would have talked about how it was far, far more offensive to the memory of our soldiers when Kamala wore a pantsuit to the cemetery.)
“Dis” Coarse Discourse 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ravi Chandra reviews what he calls “the 13 ‘disses’ of abusive power.”
Here’s the list:
Methinks you might want to read more of dat about “dis.”
It’s the Stupid, Economy 0
Farron discusses Donald Trump’s alma mater’s report that Trump’s economic policies fantasies (I wanted to say “ignorance,” but I refrained) would devastate the economy.
Afterthought:
Despite what NBC would have you believe, “business man” and “con artist” are not synonyms.
And, yes, I think NBC is significantly responsible for convincing lots of persons that Trump was something other than a colossal failure at business.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Today’s Secesh are phoning it in.
Republican Family Values 0
Nickolas Kristoff details the deception. A snippet:
The problem? While neither party has done enough to support families and children, the one that is failing most egregiously is — not surprisingly — the one led by the thrice-married tycoon who tangled with a porn star, boasted about grabbing women by the genitals and was found by a jury to have committed sexual assault.
Follow the link for his bill of particulars.
QOTD 0
John Moffatt, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:
The wages of sin are said to be death, but sometimes the wages of sin seem to be luxury.
From episode 5 of the BBC production of Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, which you can find at the Old Time Radio Theater, linked in the sidebar, over there ——->.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
When you got nothing, well, I guess, all that is left for you to do is make something out of nothing.
Snakes on a Campaign 0
Charles M. Blow make the case that Donald Trump has a way with the reptilian amongst us. Here’s how his article opens:
One wouldn’t be wrong to think that this results in a treacherous environment. But Trump prefers this sort of snake pit because he understands snakes.
Follow the link for his arguments.
