2025 archive
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
As a matter of fact, let’s make that bleeping stupid.
The Cracker Up 0
Afterthought:
I dined–if you can call it that–at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day the space shuttle blew up.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and pretty soon there may be no more icing on the cake.
Follow the link for more on the melt-down.
They Got What They Voted For 0
Farron points out that, occasionally, poetic justice happens.
Decoding De Code 0
At The Coloarado Sun, Mike Littwin reports that he has found a quotation from George Orwell that illuminates why the Trump maladministration is attacking the Smithsonian (and I would add, by extension, universities and other institutiolns of learning and remembrance):
Follow the link to see why he thinks that to be the case.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs random acts of politeness.
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 Me Veneration 0
Does this remind you of anyone in the news?
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
. . . the only way to get something out of your mind is to get something else in.
Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy, (New York: Bantam, 1967) p. 60.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy has a premonition.
This New Gilded Age 0
Via Truthout, Sarah Anderson runs the numbers. Here’s just one number:
The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year.
In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made in 2024, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel.
More numbers at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It seems that one of those “responsible gun owners” has a notion of immigrants.
Guns and hatred and bigotry–what a delightful ste–oh, never mind.
The Reverse Robin Hood Party, Reprise 0
David notes that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” seems to be somewhat unpopular with the populace.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Afterthought:
If George Wallace were to come back from the dead, he would welcomed with open arms by today’s Republican Party.
The U. S. S. Banana Republic 0
Glynn Wilson argues that the United States has gone bananas–banana republic, that is. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
But Trump is proving all previous political punditry pathetically wrong, the first autocratic tin pot dictator in American history with little political credibility and delusions of grandeur, trying to run the United States like a banana republic.
Follow the link for the rest. Methinks he makes a strong case.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0
Hazardous? Per Timothy Cook (no relation to Tim Apple), “New research shows how prolonged AI interactions distort some users’ sense of reality.”