July, 2015 archive
Tears of Fears 0
Catholic homophobic group unwittingly skewers itself.
Thinking about it, I realize that it’s not unusual for persecutors to see themselves as persecuted. After all, that’s how they justify persecuting.
Helm’s Derp 0
Juanita Jean has the scoop.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebrate politely.
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Police said the investigation is leading authorities to believe the shot was fired from outside the park, wounding the woman. “One possibility being investigated is that the shot was fired from a nearby area as part of a Fourth of July celebration,” the news release reads.
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie puts on the squeeze.
How Stuff Works, No Place To Hide Dept. 0
In my local rag, Tom Allen recounts when he realized that we do indeed live in the naked city.
Why have I been unable to get the 1980s hit, “I Always Feel Like…Somebody’s Watching Me,” out of my head?
Follow the link and read the rest, especially the bit about his conversation with a Mad Man friend of his in the con artist advertising biz.
Neck-and-Neck 0
Daniel Ruth is optimistic about his chances in Iowa:
To date, I’ve received at least three or four emails encouraging my campaign. And Thomas and Carol Epstein of St. Pete Beach sent in a $1,000 donation. Unfortunately, it was in the form of fake Confederate currency. But it’s the thought that counts.
But what has really inspired me to find the inner strength to carry on has been the fact that both my political machine and the campaign juggernaut of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham are virtually polling neck and neck in Iowa at zero percent.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
An armed society is a clean society.
The boyfriend, 21, told officers he was getting ready to clean his semi-automatic pistol when it went off at about 10 p.m., accidentally shooting his 22-year-old girlfriend.
One wonders for what reason the gun just decided to go off?
East Is East and West Is West and Word Scaliad 0
Jack Ohman takes issue with Anthony (I almost typed “Antonin”) Scalia’s claim that California, the compass and the redwood forests to the contrary notwithstanding, is not a western state. Here’s bit:
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The things that wingnuts and Christianists are saying about the gay marriage ruling remind me of what segregationists said after Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka et al back in the olden days, when I was young ‘un growing up under Jim Crow.
The tune is the same. Only the lyrics have changed, and they but slightly; the hate remains intact.
Well, That Takes the Cake 0
The ruling by the Oregon Labor Commission upheld a previous finding that Sweet Cakes by Melissa had discriminated against the couple based on their sexual orientation, Oregon Live reports.
“Under Oregon law, businesses cannot discriminate or refuse service based on sexual orientation, just as they cannot turn customers away because of race, sex, disability, age or religion,” the Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a press release.
The bakery owners, Melissa and Aaron Klein, were ordered to pay Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer $75,000 and $60,000 each, respectively.
They probably look at this as being punished for their convictions. I guess that, in some warped world, bigoted hate sincerely-held can be considered a “conviction.”
Easy Editor: It’s Not Just for BSD 0
Easy Editor running in FreeBSD VM on Slackware –Current.
I have lately been playing with BSD, particularly FreeBSD. (As an aside, the BSD documentation is excellent; the FreeBSD Handbook is one of the best documents of its type that I’ve seen.)
The BSD Handbook suggested that new users use ee (“Easy Editor”), a program I had not heard of before, though the far more powerful and complex vi editor is also included out-of-the-box (in *nix, configuration is generally accomplished through plain text, at least for those distros that have not yet fallen for the seductive blandishments of SystemD).
Just for grins and giggles, I went looking for ee yesterday, and it is surprisingly hard to find. For one thing, search results are flooded with links that promise to provide an “easy editor” for your drag-and-drop (pfui!) web site. As near as I can find, it hasn’t been updated since 2005.
I did find an online copy of the man page and a download page at Softpedia. Its home page, according to Softpedia, is a university in the UK, and said University doesn’t seem to want to talk about it any more.
I downloaded the sources from Softpedia and it did compile and install on Slackware —Current. The *.tgz was less than 70kb in size.
A screen shot showing the pop-up menu, which is invoked by ESC, is below the fold.