2016 archive
A Poem, Not by Henry Gibson 0
Oh, hell. I couldn’t resist.
- This is your weapon.
This is your gun.
This one’s for fighting.
This one’s for fun.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Historiann:
Who ever would have predicted that it was a bad idea to nominate a Human Stain for president?
Do follow the link.
I’m taking the rest of the day off.
The Tarheel Potty Police 0
One wonders whether those who see God’s revenge in random weather events will see this as God’s revenge for North Carolina’s HB2 Pervy Potty Patrol Peeper Law.
Nah.
Chris-Crossed 0
Thom and his guest explore the heart of Trump’s support.
(I don’t know how that got there.)
Via Juanita Jean.
Hack Reporting 0
El Reg interviews breach expert Troy Hunt, who is skeptical of the spate of reports of government-sponsored data breaches. A snippet (emphasis added):
“Blaming state hackers has become like a ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse,” he added.
El Reg caught up with Hunt for 30 minutes shortly after he spoke about data breaches and other matters at the ScotSoft conference in Edinburgh on Thursday.
He said that large datasets such as the LinkedIn cache were commonly dumped online by hackers when when they are “no longer profitable to sell”. There are exceptions to this rule such as Ashley Madison, where hackers immediately leaked the purloined data as wide as possible in an effort to embarrass and pressurise the business.
Details at the link.
Trumpling Women (Updated) 0
Really, now, aside from its having been documented, was anyone at all surprised?
Afterthought:
It will be interesting to see whether this will prove too much for the self-proclaimed “Christians” who have so loudly supported him.
I’m betting it won’t. I expect that they will decide that, whoever the woman in question was, she was a fallen woman, she was asking for it, she was no better than she should be (whatever the hell that means), boys will be boys, and–oh, you can fill in the rest of the blanks.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., writing about the recent school shooting in South Carolina, reflects on the fundamental break with reality illustrated by the news coverage of violent death in the United States.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that that hierarchy has no basis in reality. Last year, PolitiFact tallied the number of Americans killed in this country by terrorism in the 10 preceding years. It came to 71. The number of us killed by guns in that same time frame? 301,797.
In a way, the phenomenon he highlights is natural. Unusual, out-of-the-ordinary events are “news.”
Death by gunnuttery is commonplace and mundane in NRA paradise.
Stray Question 0
If little eagles are called ‘eaglets” and little pigs are called “piglets,” why aren’t little chickens called “chicklets?”