March, 2018 archive
Delving into the Data Delvers 0
Thom and Greg Palast discuss how your online data is stolen and abused.
Fetishists Protest Destruction of Their Totem 0
From today’s local rag (more at the link):
(snip)
Thousands of gun-rights advocates nationwide left angry, sarcastic and sometimes profane comments on her Facebook and Twitter accounts. They argued she should be locked up for illegally converting the weapon into a short-barreled rifle. As of Tuesday, her video had been viewed more than 3 million times, with more than 49,000 leaving comments.
Aside:
“Gun-rights advocates” is “firearm fetishists” misplet.
The Party of Personal Reprehensibility 0
Lance Dutson takes a scathing look at what has happened to the Maine Republican Party. A snippet:
It’s one ridiculous story after another. The party of Margaret Chase Smith, Bill Cohen, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins has become the punchline of a very dark joke, one layered with incompetence, anger, and bigotry. The Maine GOP was once a national example of effective and reasonable leadership. Now it’s been invaded and infected by an outspoken legion of LePage cultists who won’t stop till they’ve bled every bit of credibility from the party’s nobler past.
And it’s not just in Maine, folks.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .
Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said the girl would not give up a video game controller when her brother wanted it.
Via PoliticalProf.
Facebook Frolics, No Place To Hide Dept. 0
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides guidance on how to better protect your privacy on Facebook.
The Skrelli Syndrone 0
Robert Reich notes a malignancy in our society, one exemplified by the “Pharma Bro, Martin Skrelly. A snippet:
He’s contemptuous of anyone who gets in his way — whether judges, prosecutors, members of Congress or journalists. He remains unapologetic for what he did. He is utterly shameless.
Sound familiar?
Mangled in the Equifax Machine 0
This is an unbelievable cavalcade of stupid.
The Unraveling 0
I fear that Dick Polman is correct.
“An Armed Society Is Polite Society” 0
Cleanliness is next to politeness.
(Link fixed.)
In Perpetuity 0
Bad Tux points out that Know Nothings are still a thing.
