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A Notion of Immigrants 0
I could not determine whether the victim is, in fact, an immigrant. She was not identified other than as an 18-year-old student in the news reports as of this writing. I suspect there she’s likely no more an immigrant than I am.
But whether she was born here or abroad is irrelevant. What’s relevant is so many feel free to unleash their bigotry and hatred on others, sadly, with encouragement from far too many public figures.
We are devolving into an uncivil society.
Normalizing Nastiness 0
Methinks Steven M. has a valid question.
Freedom of Screech 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Douglas Yeung makes a sound case that unfettered free speech, the sort favored by Elon Musk and others of his ilk, is less than desirable. Rather, he argues, productive, civil discourse requires, well, civility, for Pete’s sake. An excerpt:
Driven to Destruction 0
Sam and his crew express a smidgen of skepticism about the hype over self-driving cars.
The Republican Vision 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the South Jersey Times published at NJ.com sums it up.
Afterthought:
FDR had the “New Deal.”
Harry Truman had the “Square Deal.”
Today’s Republican Party has the raw deal.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic responsible gun owner comports himself with courtesy whilst traversing the nation’s byways.
“Them What Has, Keeps” 0
Thom takes a look at House Republicans’ plans to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Yet another Republican is charged with (multiple counts of) voter fraud.
Afterthought:
There’s an old saying that, when someone points a finger at someone else, he or she’s pointing four fingers back at him- or herself.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Geeking Out 0
Updating a VirtualBox virtual machine of Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment using the apt command in Magiea v. 8 under the Fluxbox window manager.
Aside:
If you are one of my two or three regular readers, you’ve probably figured out by now that I really like Fluxbox. It’s my preferred interface on all of my machines.
It’s light-weight, flexible, and highly configurable. And, out-of-the box, it doesn’t do desktop icons. (It can be made to do so if you really insist, but, really, menus exist for a reason.)
I like my pretty wallpaper pictures and don’t like having little pimples icons marring them.
But that’s just me.