May, 2025 archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
For the life of me, I can’t see anything behind this but racism, bigotry, and mean for the sake of mean.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Intellectually enhancing? If you buy that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale.
Vaccine Nation on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
In an article at AL.com, Nicole K. Reh, who is on the path to earning a medical degree, writes about how “social” media is endangering persons’ health; she focuses on the recent measles outbreaks and the anti-VAXX lies that have fueled them.
One interesting frightening statistic that she cites particularly caught my eye:
The entire piece is worth a read, and, remember, “social” media isn’t.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.
An Ode to Greased Palms 0
- Everything is pay to play
In Donald Trump’s USA.
“The Response Generator” 0
Yastreblyansky parses the pattern in the president’s prattle.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.
The Sword of Dummycles 0
It turns out that the Force wasn’t actually with him.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness gain becomes child’s play.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Gene Nichol lists four lessons learned from the thwarting of the recent attempt by North Carolina Republicans to steal the election of a justice of the N. C. State Supreme Court through bogus charges of voter fraud.
But it seems that the voter fraud fraudsters just won’t give up.