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Campaign Pain 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is not looking forward to four more weeks of campaign ads on the telly vision.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues, as an uncle bags his nephew.
As the Worm Squirms . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reviews the latest attempts by Alex Jones to hold himself–well–above the law.
Unmitigated Gall 0
Plus a textbook example of psychological projection.
Dis Coarse Discourse, the Gulled and the Gullible Dept. 0
Sam and his crew discuss the Republicans’ demonizing of trans persons (who, again, are a minuscule portion of the population).
We will remain in peril as long as a significant portion of our polity eagerly laps up lies. And as long as “social” media persists in propogating prevarication.
Aside:
Why are Republicans so obsessed with sex?
Tempus Fugits 0
PoliticalProf is feeling his age.
Twits Who Would Own Twitter 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary phones it in.
Enough Already 0
Aside:
We passed a service station the other day that had a sandwich board out front reading, “Pumpkin spice oil changes now available.” If I hadn’t just gotten an oil change . . . .
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Athens State University Professor Sean R. Busick is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
(snip)
Like some politicians from the 1850s, their extremism is selfish and short-sighted. Normalizing talk of political violence leads to political violence. Though the extremists who plague us may not be serious people, some of their followers take them seriously.
We too should take them seriously. We should recognize the danger they pose and vote them out.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness at the junction of on ramp and through lane:
Facebook Frolics 0
There is a larger moral here, larger than that Facebook is a ginormous kludge.
- Don’t log into third party sites using your Google, Facebook, or other password.
- Create a unique password for every site.
If you are worried about keeping track of all those passwords, use KeepassXC. It’s local, meaning the data remains on your computer, not in the cloud on somebody else’s computer; the databases are portable, meaning that, if you update the database on one machine, you just have to copy the updated database to your other machines; and, if you are an Android user, it’s compatible with KeepassDroid.
I’ve used it through several iterations (it started as KeepassX, which is no longer maintained) for nearly a decade now; it’s the bee’s knees and the cat’s meow.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
The fiendliness is mushrooming.