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Geeking Out 0
Ubuntu MATE with the Plasma Desktop. The wallpaper is from my library. Swisswatch and the GKrellM system monitor are on the right:
One Note Samba, Reprise 0
Paul Krugman suggests that, for Donald Trump, it’s always 1989.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes the back seat.
The victim, a woman, told officers the shooting happened while she was in a car in the 1200 block of East Main Street, the report stated. The woman said she and another person had picked up a passenger, an acquaintance, who got in the back seat when the gun went off from the back, the report stated.
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Wallace’s daughter sees echoes of her father’s racist political tactics in Donald Trump’s behavior.
Magickal Thinking 0
Methinks Jason330 has a point.
Deport City 0
Dana Milbank outlines all the reasons why Baltimore must be deported. Here’s a snippet:
“Pathocracy” 0
Steve Taylor discusses a common, but seldom discussed, form of government that has manifested itself in many different political systems.
I commend his article to your attentioin.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is an integral component of marital bliss.
Court records show Spivey called 911 at about 3 a.m. Sunday to request an ambulance, saying he and his wife had fought over a gun, and he accidentally shot her.
The Ingredients of Inaction 0
Shaun Mullen reverse-engineers a recipe for wafflers.
QOTD 0
Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Nero Wolfe (Goldsborough has continued the Wolfe stories with the blessing of Rex Stout’s family):
Many people tend to believe everything that appears on a printed page, no matter how questionable the vehicle or how outrageous the statement.
Goldsborough, Robert, Death on an Art Collector (New York: MysteriousPress.com, 2019) p. 81
