Real Big Men 0
Via the Hartford Courant, military veteran Peter Kilduff looks at Pete Hegseth’s testosterone fetish and finds himself moved to poesy:
Follow the link for context.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Here’s a rhyme from T. E. Lawrence:
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age 0
According the Blue Cross Blue Shield, that it controls 84% of Alabama’s health insurance market doesn’t mean it’s got a monopoly.
Golly gosh gee no, Batman.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When you attend a party, be sure to show politeness to your fellow celebrants.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A friend of fraudsters? At the Psychology Today website, Azadeh Aalai warns sounds a warning:
Follow the link, where she tells of an scam targeted her (and that did not fall for).
And Now for a Change of Pace 0
Afterthought:
I had the good fortune to see Pink Floyd three times. Once was during my Junior Year Abroad, when they performed at the University of Exeter; it was before they became famous (they were well-know, certainly within the UK, but not yet famous). They substituted for Deep Purple, who couldn’t make their scheduled performance for some reason.
The second time was back in the states, after Dark Side of the Moon. I caught two concerts on their “Dark Side of the Moon” tour, one early in the tour and the second towards its end. They played the album straight through as the second set of the show.
Influencer Idiocy 0
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! of mean for the sake of mean.
Froma Harrop has more on “influencers” . . . .
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Indeed, it seems increasingly antisocial.
Aghast and Furryous, Reprise 0
Kyle Whitmire looks at Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s bizarre claim that airliners are crewed by furries, then proceeds to decode de code (emphasis in the original):
Tommy Tuberville’s political pitch to Alabama has been as simple as it is old.
I hate all the same people you do.
Follow the link for his evidence.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . made even fiendlier by AI.
American Stasi 0
Your tax dollars at work. From The Guardian:
Needless to say, the U. S. citizen in question was not white.