January, 2017 archive
Snowmageddon 0
Snow is in the forecast, so the local television stations are all, natch, at Snowmageddon DefCon One “We’re all going to die!”
Did we have weather before television, and, if we did, however did persons survive it?
Understanding Trump 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Karl Albrecht says it’s easier than you think. It’s as simple as WYSIWYG.
“The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Fiend” 0
Dick Polman wonders at the Republican Party’s new-found Putin love, given Republicans’ historical antipathy to Russia. Here’s snippet:
(snip)
Who could ever have predicted that the tough-on-Russia party would slide toward appeasement? That Ronald Reagan would yield to a whiff of Neville Chamberlain?
Follow the link for Polman’s theories as to why the turnaround.
Image via Job’s Anger.
“The Creeper” 0
Shorter Will Bunch: There are no baby steps in the march to tyranny.
Dialectic 0
Has anyone else noticed that today’s Republican Party’s strategy for saving the “American Dream” (whatever that is) is to deny it to as many persons as possible?
Corollary:
When only one person has access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, maximum dream shall have been obtained.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
All I want for Christmas is a little politeness . . . .
. . . . and a gun that fires itself.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still well under 300k.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, decreased to 256,750 from 262,500 in the prior week.
