May, 2016 archive
“No Municipal Wireless for You” 0
Shorter Kerry Dougherty: Other people can’t have nice things.
Light Bloggery 0
Break time.
Everyone Deserves a Slice of the Pie 0
Having dutifully paid my child support, I have mixed emotions about this.
He was ordered to pay €300 in child support for the couple’s daughter each month as part of the divorce settlement, and the professional pizza chef chose to make the payments in the form of delicious pizza – something his ex-wife was not happy about.
According to the rest of the story, one factor affecting the judge’s ruling was that the man does not make enough money to pay the full cash amount.
The Meaning of Trump 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear looks at the news and hazards a guess:
By embracing Trump, the GOP may finally be admitting that they are indeed the White Man’s Party.
Follow the link and find out why he says that (and, no, the Republican Party will not admit that “they are indeed the White Man’s Party”; “plausible deniabilty” will be maintained).
Decoding De Code, Voter Fraud Fraud Dept. 0
Emily Mills parses the testimony in the suit against Wisconsin’s gut-out-the-vote law.
Read it.
Meanwhile, regarding a related issue, Roger Chesley, writing in my local rag, parses the press releases about Virginia’s voting restoration kerfuffle.
The Tarheel Potty Police Report for Duty 0
Warning: NSFW.
Rationalizing Racist Behavior–It’s a Thing 0
I say that there is no way to explain away the racism in this, but I predict they will keep trying.
I’m a Southern boy. I see through racists’ bullshit because I grew up surrounded by it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to domestic tranquility.
The two boys had been playing with the gun. The 10-year-old called 911 at 12:18 p.m. to report the shooting, Leamon said.
Just another day in NRA paradise.
Stray Thought 0
I really don’t want to know what it means when you’re on a bike ride, stop for a drink of water, and look up to see a turkey buzzard circling above your head.
Not at all.
QOTD 0
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Droning On 0
The question is not whether, it’s when: When will some boy bring down an airliner with his toy?
He was turning right at an altitude of 450 metres (1,500ft) – a “critical phase of flight” – when the incident occurred.
The report stated that the drone was “extremely close to the aircraft”, passing just 15 metres above and 30 metres to the left.
Twits on Twitter 0
Bob Molinaro spots a sporting twit:
It’s the Privilege 0
In a long, thoughtful post at the Boston Review, David Sehat analyzes the history of conservative Christians’ assertion that that “freedom of religion” means “freedom to discrimination”; he concludes it’s about power, not piety.
A nugget (emphasis added):
Read it.
The Privatization Scam 0
It’s a con, perpetrated those who believe that there is no such thing as the public good.
