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QOTD 0
David Herbert Donald:
I’m not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
Tale of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
He takes the snap, drops back, and Trumples the football!
Aside:
That he thought it was a private message means only that he knows how to behave in public.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
In these parts, it’s mid-September and the temperature is still in the mid-80s. This is not normal.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Meta: “Add to Any” 0
I realized that, somewhere along the line as I migrated from here to there to my current VPS, I had lost the “Add to Any” plugin. It creates the “Share/Save” button at the bottom left of this post and makes sharing my posts to “social” media easier for the socialites among you, so I reinstalled it today.
It’s my kind of WordPress plugin: It’s simple, it’s neat, and it stays out of the way.
I used to publish my posts on my Facebook page via Facebook’s “Networked Blogs” feature, but that seems to have stopped functioning several years ago. I briefly considered finding a way to resume that practice, but decided it wasn’t worth having the Zuckerborg drop its tracking cookies all over my browser cache (the alternative would be to do all my posting from a “private” window, and I’m just too lazy . . . .).
This is, as I have said, an avocation, not a business.
I welcome and am grateful for all visitors and am most pleased that some folks find my work worth a visit.
I want to reach as many persons as I can, but there are some lines I shall not cross, and running nekkid through the Zuckerborg is one of them.
Twits on Twitter 0
A Kavanaugh of Twits. (A Kavanaugh equals roughly two Thomases.)
Facebook Frolics 0
Yet more racist frolics.
I majored in history (U. S. Southern, but my college did not recognize concentrations). I unlearned these myths a long time ago. I should be taken aback that persons still believe them, but I’m not.
I learned a long time ago that racism trumps (accurate verb, that) truth.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite at the pizzeria popular for preteen parties.
Packing heat at a Chuck E. Cheese. Cheesus.