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And, in News of Mean for the Sake of Mean . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice theorizes that, in trying to prove just how cruel and cold-hearted she can be, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem may have just possibly stepped in it.
QOTD 0
Ronald Howard, in the voice of Sherlock Holmes:
Why not give them (the suffragettes–ed.) the vote. They couldn’t do any worse with it than we have.
Stray Thought 0
My ISP has outsourced its email to Yahoo! (I gather that a number of ISPs are outsourcing their email services because they are lazy cheap sons of b–oh, never mind). Until I figure out how to import my emails into a mail client such as Thunderbird–my personal favorite–I am stuck with using Yahoo!’s webmail interface, which is not only clunky, but which also includes advertisements disguised as emails in my inbox.
Which leads me to remark that . . . .
Despite what Yahoo! would have me believe when I delete an email exchange from my inbox, an exchange of emails is not a “conversation.”
It is, at worst, an annoying but necessary task. At best, it is a correspondence.
But it’s not, by any stretch of the imagination, a “conversation,” for Pete’s sake.
Furrfu.
Deja Vu All Over Again and Again and Again and Again . . . . 0
In my youth, I demonstrated against the Vietnamese War, the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a lie of Lie of that time, in such small ways as I could.
Methinks the artist is onto something.
Aside:
Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M has an interesting take on this issue.
Afterthought:
The unmitigated gall of these uppity students to oppose gratuitous bloodshed!
All the News that Fits 0
F. T. Rea looks at the testimony of David Pecker at the Trump trial and asks,
Follow the link for the rest of his musings.
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron delights in Florida Man’s being hoisted on his own petard.
Candy Crushed 0
I think I have expressed before in these electrons my skepticism as to the benefits of legalized on-line gambling.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” practices a random act 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 Fifth Columnists 0
At the Roanoke Times, Dan Casey tries to figure out why three western Virginia Congresscritters seem unwilling to aid Ukraine in its struggle against Russia’s invasion.
Tales of the Trumpling* 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes of a thoroughly Trumpled political party.
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*And I had so hoped I’d never see cause to use this title again . . . .
QOTD 0
George Washington Carver:
Afterthought:
. . . but it shall wreak much destruction along the way.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Shorter Cameron Smith: Paul Simon was prescient.
Republican Family Values 0
(Warning: Short promo for David’s recent book at the end.)
Republicans’ actions betray the hollowness and hypocrisy of their claim to have “family values.”
Aside:
Many years ago, when I was in college, I knew someone who feared she might be pregnant (and, no, I was not the potential father).
As it turned out, she wasn’t. But, as I watched the agony she went through for those few weeks, I realized that not I nor anyone else had the right to dictate to her.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
“Eugenics,” said Jane. “It’s interesting. Restricting the breeding of the unfit. There’s a basic flaw in their argument, I believe.” She forked in some potato salad.
“Which is?” asked Phyrne.
“Who decides who is unfit?” asked Jane.
“There you have put your finger on the nub,” Phryne informed her. “Keep reading, and I think you will find that the unfit will cover any group which the writer does not like–Catholics, Chinese, Jews, Aborigines–and any group he is afraid of–the poor, for instance, who seem set to outbreed him. The only group that will be allowed to breed freely will be–”
“Him,” said Ruth . . . .
Greenwood, Kerry, Unnatural Habits (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2013) p. 58.
Aside:
Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher novels are set in and around Melbourne, Australia, in the late 1920s. They are wonderfully written, well-structured, and carefully researched. They are indeed the only mystery stories I’ve come across that have bibliographies.
I recommend them highly.
Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.
The Australian television series based on them is also a great watch, if you can find it streaming somewhere.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.
