2024 archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal hears a rhyme. Here’s a tiny bit of her column:
At the same time as Victor was hiding his heritage, on the other side of the family on the other side of the country, in upstate New York, my other great-great-grandfather, Garrett MacEachron, joined the domestic terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless 0
TYT Sports spotlights the hypocrisy of Trump’s sycophants.
A Pet Theory 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert Bartholomew notes that there is nothing new about stories of immigrants eating pets Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added); follow the link for context.
Spin Cycle 0
PoliticalProf points out that a tactic is not the same thing as a fact.
A Tune for the Times 0
The Parody Project looks back at the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency (and wonders why anyone would want to go through that again).
Vaccine Nation, Science Schmience Dept. 0
Steven M. is not sanguine, as he hears more Republicans seem to say
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“Herd immunity.”
How Stuff Works: Thom Explains the “Recession Racket” 0
Thom explains how the morbidly rich can benefit from recessions. A quote:
Recessions help billionaires. They hurt you and me, but they become buying opportunities for billionaires.
“Those Who Cannot Remember the
Past Are Condemned To Repeat It.”*
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Kim Shinkoskey, writing at the Idaho State Journal, argues that Americans need to bone up on some history.
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*George Santayana.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, playing with portable phalluses leads to a discharge. (Syntax error atoned for.)
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.
Freedom of Screech 0
Donald Trump’s fee-fees are hurt because he didn’t get his way, so he’s filed (yet another) empty suit. From Above the Law:
Geeking Out 0
Debian v. 12 (Bookworm) with the Plasma Desktop on a Think Penguin laptop. Xclock is in the upper right; GKrellM, the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Elesa Zehndorfer takes a look at a rapidly growing career path: “Disinformation entrepreneurs” who propagate claptrap via “social” media for money. She notes (emphasis added)
Follow the link for her article, and, remember,
- The things that you’ve seen,
And can read on your screen,
They ain’t necessarily so.
Macho, Macho Man 0
Afterthought:
Donald Trump has a long hsitory of doing things to women whether they like it or not.