September, 2017 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Image via Juanita Jean.
Afterthought:
One element of the reports about the use of the Facebook/Twitter/”social’ media to spread fake news lies that has received less attention than it deserves is the stupid on the receiving end–the willingness of some persons to believe stuff that just ain’t so. If you see a questionable story, just how difficult is it to search the web to find whether it can be sourced from legitimate news sites?
The GOP’s Pathological Partisanship 0
Danny Westneat tries to understand the Republican obsession with repealing the Affordable Care Act.
He starts with recalling Rep. Cathy McMorris’s (R–Don’t Get Sick; If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly) request for ACA stories a couple of years back, She received over 10,000 responses, the great majority of which were positive. Nevertheless, she announced that she would favor the repeal of the ACA:
But the larger problem — the one that continues to hang the party today — is that she wasn’t remotely interested in the real story.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling Rosh Hashanah .
The story goes on to point out that the Trumplers couldn’t even get the swastika right.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid.
Guns and stupid.
They go together
Like love and Cupid.
He was wrong.
Facebook Frolics 0
Delusions of grandeur frolics.
There’s a reason I seldom log into Facebook. (When I do, it’s because that, if you want to do reach-out, you must reach out to where the people are).
Facebook as a company–remember, it’s company that desires profit, not a community–is a vortex of [de/il]lusion.
Even as it preys on its users, Facebook pretends that it is a community.
It’s not.
It’s a milking-machine for profit. It’s a really well-designed milking-machine, but a milking-machine that is suckling on your anatomy none the less.
Do not fool yourself into thinking otherwise.
Adventures in Malware 0
I suspect the mope is having second thoughts right about now.
Specifically, Das deliberately introduced malware – seemingly designed to delete files and knacker services – into the US Army Reserve payroll systems after his employers lost the contract to provide the technology. The military estimates it cost $2.6m to fix the damage.
Sovereign Failure 0
E. J. Dionne takes a deep look at Donald Trump’s U. N. speech and finds it to be an incoherent (quell surprise!) mess.” Here’s a snippet:
But Trump was so selective and inconsistent in his application of sovereignty that the concept itself had collapsed before he finished. If sovereignty is the highest principle, what justification does he have for threatening to destroy North Korea (which asserts its sovereign right to nuclear weapons)?
How can he suggest intervention against Venezuela simply because we disapprove of its governing system? Trump’s criticism of Venezuela was clearly based on the idea that some things actually are more important than sovereignty.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Give your family a treat of politeness.
A Picture Is Worth 0
This pretty much sums up my feelings about the international image of the U. S. since Donald Trump’s U. N speech:
Via Job’s Anger.
