September, 2017 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Discuss political issues with politeness.
Follow the link and figure out who was on which side.
The Pusher Men 0
These days, they wear suits and file expense reports.
Statue of Limitations, Reprise 0
Daniel Ruth addresses the current kerfuffle in Tampa about a local Confederate secessionist monument. A snippet:
Do please read the rest.
The Trumpled Budget Deal 0
Josh Marshall tries to understand why Trump cut a budget deal with Democrats. He concludes that it is completely consistent with Marshall’s theory that Trump thrives on dominance. A snippet:
But the political or ideological manifestations are secondary to the personal one. Trump needs to dominate people. Clearly Trump felt that McConnell and Ryan are not serving him well enough or loyally enough or both. So he lashed out or tried to damage them. Schumer and Pelosi were simply the most convenient cudgels available.
Follow the link for more.
It Walks Again by Night 0
Of course, there is no such thing as as “Alt-Left’ movement. The fictional Alt-Left is nothing more than the Neo-Nazi white right looking in a mirror and seeing its image in reverse.
“Uppity” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that “uppity” is still a thing.
Tales of Trumplings Past 0
Elsewhere, Sasha Abramsky is has similar thoughts. Follow the link for the complete article:
As in, “Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt telling the world that many Nazi protestors were ‘good people’?” As in, “Can you imagine Ronald Reagan crowing about his crowd size while touring a region utterly devastated by hurricane winds and rain?” As in, “Can you imagine John Kennedy publicly urging “the torture” on terrorism suspects and the roughing up by the police of criminal suspects?”
The answer, of course, to all of these questions is that such utterances are, quite simply, unimaginable.
Image via Job’s Anger.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to strong families.
Investigators tell Channel 11 the gun that was used was a 9 mm. Investigators said the two boys were home alone, with the 10-year-old was babysitting the 6-year-old.
The story goes on to say that the mother, who was at work when this happened, may be charged. It does not point out this simple equation
no gun } locked gun=no shooting
Geeking Out 0
Slackware 14.2 with the Window Maker window manager.
Window Maker is the one major *nix window manager I haven’t played with, other than the tiling window managers, which are not to my taste. I’ve used Blackbox (there once was a Blackbox for Windows but the maintainer’s site got hacked and he abandoned the project, but it was a pleasure to use); IceWM; Fluxbox (my favorite window manager); and even TWM, the oldest (some would say “most primitive”) of all.
Window Maker is much more versatile and configurable than I expected. It’s been around for a long time and is still actively supported.
I expect to have fun playing with it.
Afterthought:
Window managers are unknown on Apple and Windows; their default interfaces are “desktop environments.” If the terms puzzle you, this may help.
Some Roses 0
When we were at the Gardens by the Sea, the red roses looked a bit bedraggled, but the yellow and pink ones were resplendent.
Seizure in September 0
Farron looks at what the Republican-controlled Congress is facing and concludes that it ain’t pretty.
NIMBY Nonsense 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
To express their annoyance at the situation, around 20 residents of the village in the Haute-Savoie – home to a total of 600 people – have signed a petition to have the cows moved.
The petition, signed “only by second home owners” in the village, according to mayor Henri-Victor Tournier, including Brits, Belgians, Corsicans and Parisians, complains of the “noise of the animals on the paths opposite the chalets and apartments of the Corbier hill”.
Follow the link for more nonsense.
