2025 archive
Windbags 0
Emma and the crew debunk de bunk about wind farms.
Afterthought:
In Trump world, government does not exist to serve the people.
Government–and the people–exist to serve the Trump.
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.