October, 2025 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
(snip)
The DNR (Iowa Department of Natural Resources–ed.) said that the teen “was mistaken for a squirrel by a member of his hunting party and was struck in the back of the head.”
Anyone who can’t tell the difference between a squirrel and a human being is too stupid to be allowed to have a gu–oh, yeah, I forgot.
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.
Republican Thought Police 0
Rebecca Watson looks at the Republican thought policing currently being exercised at Texas A&M University. (Warning: Mild language.)
Or you can read the transcript.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A reliable source of news? Grocery stores wouldn’t even display it in the check-out aisle.
The only thing artificial about “artificial intelligence” is the claim that it’s in any way intelligent.
Remember, it does not create. It merely regurgitates.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.
It wants to dictate.
A Legend in His Own Mind, Reprise 0
In the midst of a longer article considering how we might resist the Trump maladministration’s march towards dictatorship, Timothy Snyder makes what I find a most appropriate observation:
Follow the link for context.