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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Jay Bookman reports on the latest from Georgia Republicans’ gut-out-the-vote efforts.
Gilding the Polity 0
(Update: the embed is giving a 500 error as of 2018-10-16 22:30. I checked. It’s their error, not mine. One hopes it’s cleared up soon.)
Indoctrinotion 0
A Philadelphia school teacher calls out a Republican for accusing him on “indoctrinating” his students. A snippet:
And it was all untrue.
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Look for signs of politeness.
Investigators say Gravley fired a gun at a road sign in a nearby intersection, the release states. The bullet “passed through or by the road sign” and traveled through a wooded area in front of the victim’s home.
The Pusher Men 0
I have high blood pressure. Fortunately, my medicines do not include extra added jet fuel. (Also, you will not see the medicines I’m prescribed advertised on TV because they are generic, cheap, and effective, with minimal side effects. They fail all the tests for drugs advertised on television!)
Learn more here.
Facebook Frolics 0
Unpwned millions, but millions still pwned.
Does anyone else have the sneaking suspicion that Facebook’s “engineers” don’t know what they are doi–oh, never mind.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness goes international.
(snip)
On this occasion, up to 18 hunters were taking part, but apparently failed to notice the rider, who was wearing bright clothes and easily identifiable, according to the investigating source.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
I have no TV favorites, because most of the programs seem to be intended for either the under-brained or the over-brained and I come in between . . . .
Stout, Rex, If Death Ever Slept (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 35.
(Sticky) (Unstuck) Meta: Down at the Farm? 0
(I’m going to stick this at the top of the page until I have a handle on what’s going on.
I shall put this down as one of those things and unstick this post tomorrow. The issue is still occurring intermittently, but, oh well.)
Off and on the past few days, I have been experiencing random time-outs when trying to connect to my website.
All the News that Fits, Glutted for Punishment Dept. 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Adeena Bank Lees offers some suggestions for avoiding drowning in the flood of news (much of which isn’t news, but opinion, and often isn’t even new, but a rehash of a rehash of a rehash).
Here’s one (emphasis in the original):
Follow the link for her other suggestions.
Afterthought:
I would add one. If you depend on “social” media for news, don’t. Verify those tweets and Facebook posts at legitimate, accredited sources before you believe them and for heaven’s sakes before you forward them to others.
Twists and deception spread as fact are bait for the gullible.
The best defense is not to be gullible.
Oh, and speaking of gullible . . . .