June, 2017 archive
Woodpecker 0
Another picture from my brother on Virginia’s Northern Neck:
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Hate joins the parade:
The puppet, which was spotted along the parade route, portrayed a woman in blackface caricature. Its presence generated disappointment and anger from many in attendance.
Follow the link for a photo. The “costume” is truly grotesque.
Both Sides Not 0
In The Charlotte Observer, Isaac J. Bailey explains that there is indeed a difference between Republicans and Democrats, and it’s not what the conventional wisdom thinks it is.
Just read it.
Aside:
I’ve always thought that, if it’s conventional, it’s probably not wisdom, but maybe that’s just me.
Trumpling Cacophony 0
Keith Olbermann looks at the big picture of Donald Trump’s behavior. It is not pretty. (Contrast it to daily news reports that pretend yesterday did not happen.)
Opposition to Birth Control Is All about Woman Control 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Marty Klein muses on why the right wing and “Christian” culture warriors oppose birth control. He offers several reasons. Here’s an excrept, including the reasons; follow the link for his discussion of each (emphasis added):
(snip)
Most Americans of every faith pick and choose which parts of their religion they follow at various times in life (the First Amendment guarantees the right of such convenient selectivity). So there are reasons besides “sin” that so many religiously-oriented people oppose birth control—particularly for other people; here are some of those reasons:
- Contraception makes it clear that people have sex for pleasure and intimacy
- Contraception effectively limits family size, empowering women
- Contraception reduces a key unwanted consequence of sex, promoting (women’s–ed.) autonomy
- Contraception may make abortion more acceptable
Agenda 0
Thom and his guest explore the history and goals of the radical right. Listen up.
Part One:
Part Two:
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The Trumpling tramps on.
The symbols were found painted in black on the K Street side of the St. Francis of Assisi Parish on Saturday morning, said the Rev. Desmond O’Reilly. He said the church thinks the vandalism occurred Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Chris-Crossed 0
Shaun Mullen celebrates meditates on the sinking of a Titanic. A nugget:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Keep an eye out for politeness.
Firefighters said the boy shot himself at a home on North Pine Hills Road shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday.
Geeking Out 0
Devuan v. 1 with the XFCE desktop environment in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current. Peeking out from behind Devuan is a virtual machine of Windows 7, on which QMMP is playing music from KCEA (KCEA doesn’t rock; it swings).
Click to see the the full image.
Devuan has reached a full release version, though the beta was a darned find piece of work. I upgraded from the beta using the commands
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
In case you don’t know (and there is a good chance you don’t unless you are in my Linux World), Devuan is a fork of Debian without SystemD. It still uses SystemV, because many folks have issues (mostly philosophical because SystemD, however annoying it can be, does indeed work) with SystemD.
Give it a try. It installs like butter.
H/T to SystemAU (NSFW–those Aussies swear bigly) for informing me that Devuan was out of beta.
