October, 2017 archive
Stray Thought 0
Rex Stout was a damned fine writer.
I have enjoyed his Nero Wolfe mysteries from the first time that I read Some Buried Casar in the back seat of my parents’ car on the way to visit my grandmother.
Now that I am rereading them from the perspective of having made my living with my pen for a lifetime, I realize that the man was not “just a mystery writer” (Mickey Spillane was “just a mystery writer”), he was a wordsmith. Like Kerry Greenwood, he made words dance.
“Drug Dealers in Lab Coats” 0
Warning: Language.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Dick Polman explores why Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow-travelers couldn’t care less about indictments or law-breaking.
Suffer the Children 0
Mike wonders why Republicans and their vocally self-proclained “Christian” supporters are willing to condemn children to sickness and death through their failure to renew CHIP. (Warning: Language.)
Facebook Frolics 0
To paraphrase the classic Warner Brothers cartoon, “They are gremlins, from the Kremlin.”
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (November 2, 2017). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
“Statues to Traitors” 0
A wingnut calls Thom. The call does not go well.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your neighbor.
He then realized after seeing his arm bleeding and the hole in the wall that he had been peppered by a shotgun blast.
Rosette said his neighbors and the person who had shot the gun came running after they heard him yell.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, some of this stuff makes Three Stooges shorts look like Shakespeare.
They Are Not Bases . . . 0
. . . they are “forward operating zones.
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Timid Woodland Creatures 0
If you are not able to view the image, I think it’s safe to day that gocomics.com is having issues tonight.
