March, 2016 archive
Up, Up, and Away! 0
Some more pictures from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Afterthought:
Holy moly, that last one, what a great picture!
The Law’s Belay 0
Daniel Ruth talks temper tantrum. A snippet:
Then we become a banana republic of whining crybabies.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to a smoothly-functioning team.
About 3 a.m., Pratt entered Boyett’s apartment without knocking or announcing himself.
Boyett shot Pratt because he thought he was a burglar.
No charges were filed because what’s a little mistake between teammates.
Gamed 0
Remember, the Clintons have been the targets of a quarter-century-long campaign of Republican disinformation, propaganda, and lies, faithfully echoed by a media which has abandoned fact-checking for “he-said-she-said” under the guise of “objectivity.” The next time you find yourself thinking, “I don’t trust Hillary,” ask yourself, “Is my conclusion based on something she has done or on something Republicans have said?”
And remember, I don’t “like” Hillary and I certainly don’t want to have a beer with her–a Scotch maybe, not a beer. Furthermore, as my two or three regular readers know, I was not a fan of her tactics in the 2008 campaign for the nomination, but I think that, in her conduct since, she has redeemed herself. I find her competent, capable, trustworthy, and electable.
(I also like Bernie. I think he is competent, capable, trustworthy, and unelectable. An avowed socialist is not electable in this country, full stop, however benign his socialism may be.)
I like to vote in the real world. Electability matters.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Warning Label 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
. . . as if high school kids ever pay attention to warning labels.
Want to know what it feels like to drive 100 miles an hour on a curvy country road late at night? I know an ex-high school kid who can tell you.
QOTD 0
Lewis Mumford:
I’m a pessimist about probabilities; I’m an optimist about possibilities.
Aside:
I accidentally posted this a couple of days early, so you may have seen it before.
Whoops.
The Republican Establishment* 0
Noz suggests that there is no there, there.
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*Whatever that is, outside of the Fox News bubble . . . .
Droning On 4
It is just a matter of time till some overgrown adolescent yahoo downs an airliner.
The pilot of a Lufthansa A380 approaching the airport on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany, reported that a drone passed about overhead around 1:30 p.m., said Ian Gregor, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Is It an Implosion or an Explosion? 2
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun and ex-Republican, marvels at the trajectory of the party that he once supported as it comes apart at the seams. Here’s a bit:
In its place appeared a mishmash of disparate groups that came together in such a way as to assure the party of Abraham Lincoln . . . would collapse of its own weight.
(snip)
By that I mean that the politics of 2016 have exposed the fault lines among the evangelicals, libertarians, statists, economic conservatives, xenophobes and all kinds of supremacists. The folks who kept the party of Lincoln burning bright for so many decades have all but disappeared or, at least, been marginalized as “the establishment.”
