American Exceptionalism
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Richard French, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, makes a convincing case that, if such a thing ever were, it ain’t no more. He argues that, under the Trump maladministration,
. . . .the U.S. is retreating from the values it once claimed as its moral core.
I fear that he is correct. Follow the link for his reasoning.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Competent legal counsel? Don’t rest your case on it.
A Phishing Expedition 0
Farron discusses a report that members of the Trump maladministration fell for a phishing scam and the implications thereof.
Why do I not find this at all surprising?
We are governed by toddlers.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels constrained to discharge his portable phallus whilst traversing the nation’s highways.
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they’re coming for media fact-checkers.
Signs of the Devolution 0
When I started this in the early days of the blogosphere, comment spam was a thing. Then, as “social” media began to attract everybody’s eyeballs, as the saying goes, the amount of comment spam died out. It never went away, but it became relatively rare.
There’s been a sharp uptick in comment spam the past few weeks (indeed, I deleted over two dozen spam comments yesterday). Fortunately, thanks to Akismet, almost none of it makes to your screens.
It’s almost all for on-line gambling sites and apps.
This is not a good thing.
The Gaslighting 0
Farron debunks de bunk.
War and Mongers of War 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Lydia Polgreen makes a convincing–and chilling–case that Donald Trump does not realize that actions can have (sometimes unintended and unexpected) consequences.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Errata 0
I’m watching an episode of Midsomer Murders which involves what the British refer to as a “heritage railroad” (we’d call it a steam line). In it, an actor playing the part of a railroad employee repeatedly steps on rails.
I worked for the railroad for many years. Railroad workers do not step on rails.
Rails, at least those frequently traversed by trains, are slippery.
You can slip and fall and, in the worst case scenario, get run over by a train.
By the way, you can catch that episode on Tubi. If you like mystery shows, you will like Midsomer Murders.
And, if you like Midsomer Murders, you will really like Caroline Graham’s Inspector Barnaby novels, which inspired Midsomer Murders. (I can’t call them mystery stories. They are truly novels that just happen to involve murders.)
A Grave Offense 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.