July, 2013 archive
Being while Black 0
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a long and detailed analysis of the legal reasoning leading to George Zimmerman’s getting away with murder.
Elmer Smith reduces it to one question:
Does the law allow you to kill someone because you are losing a fight that you started?
Stray Thought 4
You know that rap has lost its novelty when rappers enter the New York Times crossword puzzle.
Being while Black 3
Don’t do it in Florida, where it’s okay to stalk and kill someone because you don’t like his looks.
I’m not surprised.
Hell, I grew up under Jim Crow; I know that, in the eyes of some, black lives don’t matter.
It ain’t right, but it is.
And, as long as it is, it soils us all. It is America’s original sin, and it lives on.
I’m not surprised.
But I am disgusted.
Skip Skype 0
Fortunately enough, I’ve never had to participate in any sort of video conferencing, personal or professional, though I suspect it will eventually catch up with me. I have used Ekiga, but only to make a phone call, not to “skype in,” as folks say today.
I did see a video of an early executive video conference, ca. mid-90s, back when I worked at the railroad.
It taught me one thing vividly: Don’t eat lunch on camera.
Jack Shakely shares his own awakening in the Las Vegas Sun.
I initially chalked this up to short attention spans until I looked down at the far right corner of my computer screen and saw staring back at me the grimacing death mask of a character out of the cast of “Marat/Sade.” I had Skyped my grandchildren, pulling back the curtain on a bed-headed, stubble-chinned lunatic of a grandfather. Nobody, including me, had any use for this person.
More awakening at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Keep trafficking on, politely.
East of 31st Avenue, the car turned north and one of the occupants of that car shot at the Tahoe, police said.
Valerio’s companions realized he was shot and drove him to a hospital, but he did not survive.
Tour de Farce 0
Bob Molinaro, in my local rag:
More on-targetness at the link.
