2017 archive
Gaming the Google 0
That seldom works out well.
Geeking Out 0
The Enlightenment v. 21 desktop environment* on Mageia 6.
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*Some contend that E is a window manager. They’re wrong for this reason: Enlightenment configuration is managed using GUI tools, not text configuration files. That lifts it out of the “window manager” category.
Twits on Twitter 0
Ben Cohen suggests that the Trumpler might have a tactic to his twittery. A snippet:
I agree that we shouldn’t allow the Trumpled twittery to take attention from legislation, but I’m skeptical that there is any system to it. I find his twitness to be less a tactic than a perhaps certain instinctive ferile cunning fueled by ADD (Attention Desperation Disorder).
Follow the link for the complete article.
Trump, the Movie 0
I can’t embed it, so just go watch it.
The Empty “Wars” of Empty Souls 0
At The Bangor Daily News, Lance Dotson skewers the duplicity of our endless metaphorical domestic “wars” on this, that, and the other thing. A snippet:
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This is why it is so disheartening to see the malice toward the underclasses that feeds so much of our political discourse in Maine in the age of Gov. Paul LePage.
LePage, and his welfare protege Mary Mayhew, have adopted the foolish and cruel position that poverty and crime can be eliminated by tightening the clenched fist.
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the kerfuffle over Jemele Hill’s tweets pointing out–nothing new here–that Donald Trump is a white supremacist. A snippet:
Really? Well, if Hill deserves firing for calling Trump a white supremacist, then what does he get for actually being one?
Follow the link for his answer to that question.
Presumed Guilty 0
Shorter Will Bunch: “If you doubt force of racism in the U. S., meet me in St. Louis.”
Irma Coverage, the Edited-for-Accuracy Version 0
Warning: language.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Give politeness priority to promote proper parenting.
The Morning New Tribune reported the boy’s mother took the child to a Tacoma hospital for the injuries July 6th. She told police that she’d heard a bang from a gun while she was in the shower and when she got out, the child had been injured and was screaming.