July, 2016 archive
The Snaring Economy 1
A Danish court realizes that running a for-profit gypsy cab outfit is not “sharing,” even if you do with your iJunk:
It is now expected that Friday’s ruling will clear the way for cases to proceed against an additional 40 Uber drivers who have been charged with violating taxi laws.
More at the link.
Let’s Call It the “Sinatra Syndrome” 0
Shorter Charlotte Rampell: Pols say, “It’s my way and I’ll get it if want to.”
Afterthought:
Rampell must have received her official Villager membership card and secret decoder ring. She just could not resist starting out with, “Both sides do it,” even though they don’t. Remember, a difference in degree can be large enough to indeed be a difference in kind.
QOTD 0
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
That Unsupported Feeling 0
Writing at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, James Causey talks of being while black in the United States. A snippet:
Too many black men are being shot and killed by police, and this is scary to me because as a black man I know that if I’m shot by police or one of my black friends is shot by police, there is a good chance that nothing will happen to that officer. This is not to say all officers are bad. But I can be stopped by an officer who may be a little jumpy one day and I can reach for my wallet and he can say he thought I was going for a gun — and my life is over.
Read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebrate politely.
Pellets hit the 18-year-old’s cheek, eye and arm. Relatives said his condition was improving but that he is now blind in one eye.
The Killing Fields 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
I can’t make this question go away:
Why are persons surprised that someone might decide, however illogically, insanely, and unjustly, to respond in kind?
Let’s Have a Range War 0
Someone is trying to steal our land.