2016 archive
Light Bloggery 0
It’s decompression time.
Celebrants 0
Field chronicles the exuberance of the Trumplings.
Backfire 0
Garrison Keillor suggests that the election won’t work out well for Trump voters. A snippet:
To all the patronizing BS we’ve read about Trump expressing the white working class’s displacement and loss of the American Dream, I say, “Feh!” — go put your head under cold water. Resentment is no excuse for bald-faced stupidity. America still is the land where the waitress’ kids can grow up to become physicists and novelists and pediatricians, but it helps a lot if the waitress and her husband encourage good habits and the ambition to use their God-given talents and the kids aren’t plugged into electronics day and night. Whooping it up for the candidate of cruelty and ignorance does less than nothing for your kids.
Do please read the rest. I expect that, a year from now, it will prove to have been prescient.
Facebook Frolics 0
I doubt that there’s anyone whose disdain for all things Facebook exceeds mine, but, really, Facebook is a symptom of stupid, not the cause of it.
Full Disclosure:
I have a Facebook account. If I didn’t use it to pimp this blog, I would have abandoned it long ago.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
This is your Second Amendment Solution to rearing the young.
Neighbors said that Ware told them that the child somehow got a hold of the gun and shot himself in the stomach.
(snip)
Neighbors said the boy’s father has a reputation for firing his gun in the area.
“There’s been several times where I’ve seen him out here shooting at people’s feet and acting crazy,” Amanda Cunningham said.
Ryan’s Derp, Hands Off My Medicare Dept. 0
Nothing says “America” like making health care more expensive or, ideally, unobtainable.
I wonder what all the old white men who voted for Trump will think of this.
Aside:
There was a pickup truck festooned with flags and Trump signs on a major local street for several weeks. I passed it on election day. Seated beside it were two old white men. All I have to say to them is “Get a brain, morans.”
By the by, I’m an old white man, but I already have a brain, thank you.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Today, I truly look forward to the fellowship.
Later:
It was a refreshing gathering. Join us (or look for a chapter in your area) next time.
Gird yourself against the dark times ahead.
Look in the Mirror 0
Shorter Roger Chesley: No, we are not better than that.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Set an example of politeness for your children.
Police have arrested 31-year-old Zach Cory for accidentally shooting his 8-year-old daughter.
(snip)
Detectives tell us the girl’s father, 31-year-old Cory, was inside a house near Pecos and Las Vegas Boulevard Tuesday night when his gun discharged. Cory is now facing felony child abuse charges.
Friends and family say he’s an excellent father.
Gaming the System 3
In a column written shortly before the election, Paul Krugman ascends into rigging of the ship of state.
Read it.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, ticked up to 259,750 from 258,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 18,000 to 2.04 million in the week ended Oct. 29, while the four-week average dropped by 2,250. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.5 percent.
Do not expect this trend to continue once voodoo economics again casts its spell.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A century and a half later, the Confederate States of America wins another battle in the Civil War.
One More Time, Not Voting Is Voting 0
If you are unwilling to vote for the lesser of two evils, you will most surely end up with the evil of two lessers.
Q. E. D.
Via PoliticalProf.