First Looks category archive

If you have Netflix, watch the Netflix serious, Roman Empire.

However, do not watch it in the series order. Watch it in chronological order: Season Two, about Julius Caeser; then Season Three, about Caligula; then Season One, about Commodus.

And, if you have never read Marcus Aurelius, consider doing so.

PoliticalProf.

If you have not done so, I highly recommend that you read Lena Horne’s autobiography.

Give me a break.

See the report that David discusses.

Grung_e_Gene decodes the code. A smippet:

It’s always important to understand what a Republican actually means when they say something; when Republicans or rightwingers denounce “Woke”, understand they are attacking basic human compassion.

Ignrance and stupidity that absolutely boggles the mind . . . .

Four centuries of history prove that vaccines protect humanity against disease, and now comes this guy to lobby in favor of propagating infection and death. Do they not remember polio?

And to compare getting the occasional injection so as to protect your own life and the lives of others to a lifetime of forced labor in order to line the pockets of your “owner”–well, I’ll stop now, for all I have left is profanity.

Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.

It’s been difficult for me to get into the Christmas spirit this year, perhaps because I’m watching my country fall apart before my eyes . . . .

But I finally got around to decorating my computer.

That’s Ubuntu MATE with the Fluxbox window manager. I’m listening to Ten Years Later on the QMMP media player as xsnow decorates my screen. Dolphin is shaded near the top the screen as snow accumulates atop it.

Aside:

Bottomless is right.

Each is trying to reach for the bottom and neither has reached it yet.

Image via Juanita Jean.

Badtux reports that Twitter has plucked his last nerve.

Donald Trump has now licensed the selling NFTs of (what else?) him.

And this surprises you how?

The P. D. James mystery, A Taste for Death.

I have watched several Inspector Dagliesh mysteries, and this is easily one of the best.

If you can find it, watch it.

Off to drink liberally.

A no one could possibly be this stupid oh I stand corrected twit.

We are a society of stupider, striving for stupidest.

Scare tactics.

Yet another incident of passing politeness:

“On scene, the complainant stated a male was driving a white Nissan Armada and pointed a gun at him, and his 5-year-old daughter, during a road rage incident,” the probable cause statement says.