First Looks category archive
If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another 0
Last night, the cable went out. No television. No inner webs.
Then the electricity went out. Then the electricity came back. Then the cable came back.
Then the cable went out again and stayed out almost all night.
(I’m guessing that it was the mild spring showers we were enduring. Also, stuff wears out.)
We were forced to amuse ourselves.
Gasp.
Freedom of Screech 0
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, in part,
Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . .
It does not go on to say
. . . and such speech shall be immune from critique or criticism in perpetuity.
Meta: Blogroll 0
I’ve added a new site to the blogroll, over there —-> on the sidebar: Yellowdog Grannie.
It’s a hoot!
Q. What’s Stupid, Pointless, Vindictive, and Counter-Factual? 0
A. Why, a Rand gesture, of course.
Similarities 0
John Young enumerates some of the similarities between Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine and Donald Trump’s assault on the 2020 election. Here’s one.
Much like Putin assembling his forces, Trump telegraphed his intentions long before voters had their say.
Then, like Putin, Trump relied on pliant partisans to do the unthinkable, to rationalize tactics they knew they couldn’t.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s a Republican thing.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
A Casualty 0
Over the years, I’ve posted a number of images from a site named “All Things Amazing” (always attributing the source), a site based in Russia (the URL was a *.ru URL). I appreciated the webmaster’s love for the outre and the impish.
Today, this came into my rss feed. Note that, by the time you read this, the link may not work, or, at least, may not work fully.
(Russian text snipped.)
________________________________________________________________________________________________yesterday I received this notice
“ATTENTION
On 10.03.2022, the site radikal.ru ceases to work.
From this date, videos and pictures will not be available.
To avoid losing your content, save it to your disk.”this will be the end of the legendary retro_dome and adski_kafeteri, because 90% of images in these communities were uploaded and stored on this photo-host.
if you don’t know who to thank for the holes instead of images in this community, write a collective letter of gratitude to Putin and his war.
but the holes in this community are incalculably easier to survive, than the holes instead of the windows of Ukrainian residential buildings, hospitals and schools.
Full article
https://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/3079318.html
A Glimmer of Sanity 0
It’s not much, but it is a straw at which to grasp in these troubled times.
“Great Caesar’s Ghost!” 0
I always associated that phrase with the old Superman television show starring George Reeves, in which it was often uttered by Perry White, Clark Kent’s editor at The Daily Planet.
I don’t know the origin of that phrase, but I just learned that it is much older than the 1950s, as it occurs in Mary Roberts Rinehart’s More Tish, which Rinehart wrote a century ago after her stint as a war correspondent in WWI.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Only really weak, insecure, pathetic, or painfully obsequious individuals like Tucker Carlson or Donald Trump would admire and praise Vladimir Putin, a coward who hides from his own people, while sending troops to carry out bloody attacks on citizens of a friendly neighboring country. Such a person is not “manly”, but merely a sociopathic madman. The weaklings that admire him only do so because they believe they are powerful by association.
Tin Foil Hats 0
Yes, anti-vaxxers are wearing them now. For real. In New Zealand.
Psychologist Robert Bartholomew says, “Blame the Nocebo Effect.”
When Good Enough Is Good Enough 0
Stuart Brotman points explains how the perfect is the enemy of the good. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the evidence.