First Looks category archive

I’ve added a new item to the sidebar, over there, on the right ——>, entitled “Reading Rainbow” (with apologies to PBS).

It points to Project Gutenberg, where you can get public domain ebooks which work quite nicely with FBReader (or the ebook reader of your choice) and Libribox, which offers public domain audio books, which work with the audio player of your choice (I usually use VLC).

Both sites have given me hours of enjoyment and learning.

Enjoy.

The Angry Grammarian updates his dictionary. An example (emphasis in the original):

coronasplaining, n: asserting that you know more about infectious diseases than someone with a decade of medical training because you spent 12 minutes “researching” on the internet. See also: covidiot.

Follow the link and broaden your vocabulary.

The Tampa Bay Times reports on the recipients of Donald Trump’s passel of pardons. There are no surprises here:

More than 100 individuals received a pardon or commutation of their sentence early Wednesday morning. Though the final list did not include Trump or his family, it included a group of well-connected convicted felons, wealthy fraudsters and two celebrity rappers, as well as dozens of individuals sentenced to long sentences for drug crimes.

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice finds a common thread amongst the pardonees.

Ira Hyman is an optimist.

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

If Askimet identifies your comment as spam, it will be deleted and never seen. But if you want to waste your time, that’s okay with me.

Aside:

This was drawn Saturday, before the news broke that the current federal administrator was (still) actively browbeating a public official to subvert the will of the people.

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

Give me a break.

Our next number is dedicated to all the boys and girls who think that “happy holidays” is blasphemy.

. . . at Above the Law.