2024 archive
Feeling Anxious? 0
If you’re worried about the upcoming election (I know I try not to think of it too much, because I find the prospect of the U. S. turning into yet another bankrupt, looted Trump business to be somewhat disquieting), Robin D. Stone, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, offers some hints for dealing with “election anxiety.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded.
(They never seem to think to check, do they? I guess the urge to caress that portable phallus overrides all caution.)
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.
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court seems to have some wounded fee-fees.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Speaking of the mask slipping off . . . .
Republican Thought Police 0
Steve M. reports that Florida Governor DeSantis wants to punish a television–an NBC affiliate–station for airing an ad that DeSantis doesn’t like.
The Switch Family Republican 0
Tim Walz is right.
These people are weird.
The Prediction 0
At the Kansas City Star, Roger C. Barnes and Don C. Smith argue that a Kansas newspaper editor predicted Donald Trump nearly a century ago. A snippet:
Then, in early 1943, White wrote to a friend: “The pretension that a candidate’s utterances are omniscient when everyone (knows) he is talking damned nonsense is one of the large reasons why the American people lose faith in democracy.”
Follow the link to learn why they think those words are coming true.
Recommended Viewing 0
Constable Topinka (aka Sergeant Topinka), which follows the (mis)adventures of a self-important, but somewhat–er–less than competent police officer in a small town in the mountains of northeastern Czechia. As near as I can tell from the credits, it is a cooperative effort of Czechian and Slovakian television networks.
The episodes I’m watching are dubbed in English, without subtitles. Frankly, the dubbing is not great, but the stories are an absolute hoot and a lot of fun.
I’m watching it on Tubi, but a web search indicates that’s it’s available on a number of streaming platforms.
The Invalid Syllogism 0
Michael in Norfolk is perplexed.
More perplexity at the link.
NRA Paradise 0
It’s all about the Benjamins.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Share your politeness with your neighbor.
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.
The Entitlement Society 0
They keep doing it because they keep getting away with it.