August, 2016 archive
QOTD 0
Willam Shakespeare:
I can compare our rich misers to nothing more fitly than a whale: ‘a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all in a mouthful.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, II.i 29-32
That’s about the Size of It 0
Here’s more proof that the fashion industry hates women.
The larger pair of pants shows “Size 0,5.” The slightly smaller pair shows “Size XL.”
Words fail me.
“Regrets, I’ve Had a Few . . . .” 0
Dick Polman notes that Donald Trump has recently contradicted himself and claims to have “regrets.” Mr. Polman wonder just what exactly Trump regrets. To help make the choice easier, he compiles a partial list:
Facebook Frolics 0
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea . . . .
Aside:
This trifling tribalism (as my first wife would have said) plucks my last nerve.
Sing a Song of Trump 0
At The Bangor Daily News, Marena Blanchard chronicles a day in the life of Trumpery. A snippet:
“Vote Trump! Make America great again!”
Tanya Lima, 25, of Portland, looked up from her lemonade and into the faces of three white men aggressively yelling at her as they walked by.
“White lives matter!”
Lima had been relaxing at a Portland coffee shop on a recent Wednesday morning before work. Now, confusion and anger built in her body. She watched, almost from a distance, as everyone else continued their day. No one around her offered support. They even avoided eye contact.
Donald Trump has accomplished one thing: He’s given his supporters confidence to wear their, their white sheets (or their black uniforms, if they prefer) in public. For example.
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw 0
Cali otters put up “No Trespassing” sign.
But this family of North American river otters wasn’t there to give the boys an escort to shore.
They were furious.
On the other side of the lake with a beer in his hand, Chris’ father, Ryan Whitney of Cottonwood, said he heard 14-year-old Jacob scream first. Then 13-year-old Chris.
Ryan Whitney said he could see the animals in the water, but he assumed the boys were merely frightened because the otters had gotten so close. He grew more alarmed as he watched three of the otters chasing the boys as they swam frantically back across a narrow section of the lake’s Sacramento River arm.
Real animals are not Disney characters. Animals in the wild are called wild animals for a reason.
True Confessions 0
Jim Jenkins tells all:
Follow the link for the jarring revelations.
The Privatization Scam 0
Some good news:
Deputy attorney general Sally Yates announced the decision in a memo to Thomas Kane, the acting director of the federal prisons bureau, which was published on the justice department’s website.
(snip)
Yates said in her memo that research had found private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources” and “do not save substantially on costs” either. Essential government education and training programs for prisoners “have proved difficult to replicate and outsource” in the private sector, she said.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Daniel Ruth reiterates that Republican concerns over almost non-existent “voter fraud” is a con and a fraud.
Details at the link.
Afterthought:
It’s a comment on Republicanism that its adherents know that they cannot win a fair election.
