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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Sam and his crew discuss Republicans’ attempts to discredit the franchise.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
She prized small courtesies, because they were the only ones she ever received.
Greenwood, Kerry, Queen of the Fairies (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008), p. 14.
Meta: Connectivity 0
We’ve been having intermittent connectivity issues for the past few weeks.
We could restore connectivity by rebooting the modem (that’s a fancy way of saying pulling the power, counting to ten, then plugging the power back in and waiting about five minutes for all the LEDs to come alive). I feared that the modem was going bad, which might necessitate my having do something, like taking it to my local ISP store and exchanging it for a new one. Oh, the horror of it all.
Yesterday, I called my ISP’s tech support; the support rep told me that I was not alone–that a number of customers in my area had reported problems, that the problem was likely on their end, and that their staff was actively troubleshooting it. He went on to say that they expected the issue would be resolved by the early afternoon.
And it was.
I have a number of minor gripes with my ISP, but they are all on the theoretical side of things. Their tech support and their physical support are both excellent.
Turning Blind Eyes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, H. Colleen Sinclair explores why good people do nothing in the face of bad people doing bad things.
Please just read it, because I fear what I might say were I to write more.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Let politeness accompany you to your place of education.
Afterthought:
One wonders whether this alert teacher thwarted a(nother) school shooting.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues apace.
When darkness set in around 8 p.m., the group still had their weapons out, police said. Koach said the stepfather fired a shot that struck the 11-year-old boy.
“At this point, shots were fired,” Koach said. “They thought they were shooting at a deer and one of the rounds hit the young man.”
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Thom remarks on the similarities between stuff that appears on QAnon and Nazi (and before that Russian) antisemitic propaganda and posits that there is a direct link from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Nazism to QAnon.
The Businesses of America Are Giving America the Businesses 0
Mike Ellerbrock points to a number for factors to explain what he dubs “the lopsided evolution of income, wealth, and power during the last four decades.” Follow the link for a detailed discussion of each one.
- Stakeholders vs Shareholders.
- Workers’ Wages.
- Workplace Justice.
- Corporate Welfare.
- Market Concentration.
- Civic Leadership.
Maskless Marauders 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.