February, 2015 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
The resident curmudgeon at my local rag gets one right. When her time comes, she doesn’t want to be “curated” on the Zuckerborg.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another child is given the opportunity to exercise politeness.
Gomez tells the Fresno Bee that the girls’ father was getting ready for work and had removed the magazine on his handgun before leaving it on a bed while he got ready for work.
He says the 10-year-old grabbed the gun and discharged a bullet left in the chamber hitting the younger girl.
In related news of the polite, gun nut claims that being required to unload his gun near schools infringes on his right to be polite.
Afterthought:
I suspect my two or three regular readers find these report on the courteous to be tiresome.
I find the ammosexual carnage tiresome.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Joe Conason contemplates the Republican Party’s incoming House whip, Steve Scalise, fellow traveler of white supremacists.
Follow the link for Conason’s thoughts on the matter.
My thoughts are quite simple. Richard Nixon set out to capture the bigot vote with his odious Southern Strategy. The bigot vote now has captured the Republican Party.
Via Progressive Populist.
If You Liked the Old Games . . . . 0
Screenshot of Fargoal Game in Rogue Class Linux
Recently, though, I stumbled over Rogue Class Linux, which describes itself thus:
Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books. RCL favors turn-based games, such as puzzles and rogue-like games.
What interested me, a long-time Sherlockian, was the reference to the Sherlock Holmes gamebook, Murder at the Diogenes Club, one of the games in Rogue Class Linux.
Rogue Class Linux in Virtual Box on Slackware –Current. Click for a larger image.
Look below the fold for some observations and screenshots.
Clickbait 0
Oh, the horror.
While news organizations have always dealt with unverified information, practices at some websites may accelerate the dissemination of fake news, said the report, “Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content.”
“Many news sites apply little or no basic verification to the claims they pass on. Instead, they rely on linking-out to other media reports, which themselves often only cite other media reports as well,” the study concluded.
And this surprises you how?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in the presence of the dropsies:
Cock-and-Bullies 0
Pennsylvania township goes full-on ammosexual (warning: rudeness).
Dustbiters 0
Another one bites the dust. This casino is now out of business:
My father was banker. He had integrity, and, in his days, so too did banks; he was, indeed, the straightest shooter I have ever known.
He has passed, and so too has the integrity of banking. I suspect that, were he still with us, he would identify himself simply as an agronomist, as that was his field of study.
He would have been ashamed of what “banking” has become.
A League that They Own 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, sums up the Little League kerfuffle:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Allow children the opportunity to be polite.
Both Sides Not 0
Driftglass dissects the unified Confederacy of Denial. A nugget (emphasis added):
He is writing it for the several thousand members of the Beltway Club who still go to bed at night a little worried that someday, somehow, someone might show up and demand that they be publicly brought to book for the shit they said and did back when it looked like the Age of Dubya would last forever and so nothing they said, no matter how loathsome or disgraceful or false would ever come back to haunt them.
But the Age of Dubya did come crashing down. And ever since then our Beltway Media — led by Bush Regime cheerleaders and dead-enders like David Brooks — has adopted a strategy of locking arms in a unified Confederacy of Denial.
Do please follow the link and rest the whole thing. It’s worth the three minutes.