March, 2018 archive
Break Time 0
VSO.
They will be performing my favorite bit of music, more favorite than anything by the Airplane or Cannonball Addelery or Benny Goodman or even Eydie Gorme (I admit it. I’ve had a crush on Eydie Gorme since I was a teen): Rimsky-korsakov’s marvelous Scheherazade. It’s the only classical piece I enjoy more than anything by Beethoven.
Later:
They nailed it.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A Trumpled campus:
Presidential candidates Blaine Thomas and Claire Jacobs dropped out of the race Tuesday and vice-presidential candidate Caius Gillen quit Wednesday after a student journalist publicized racist, sexist and homophobic tweets from their Twitter accounts, the Columbia Missourian reported.
Forget the racism. Whatever happened to how to behave in publ–on, never mind. (Anti)-“social” media happened. Persons forget that the internet is a public place, and behave as if they were in a private place.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is child’s play.
Authorities say a student accidentally shot himself Friday morning at a high school in Kentucky.
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A student who was in a classroom at the same time the gunshot occurred told CBS affiliate WLKY another student was playing with the gun before it accidentally fired. The student playing with the gun suffered a hand injury, the witness told the station.
Responsible Fiscals 0
The Trump administration is indeed draining the swamp, but not of swamp creatures–they are thriving and, indeed, proliferating–but of our money.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Pap Discusses a school that’s being sued for not taking action against racist bullies.
Fruit Sordid 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Sasha Abramsky discusses how Donald Trump is putting the banana in the republic.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
Channel said Friday that while the sheriff’s office continues to investigate the incident, it is believed to have been an accidental shooting.
See Foot. Shoot Foot. 0
The Inky reports that Donald Trump’s tariffs, if enacted, are likely to destroy the last U. S. company making kegs and making them with American steel to boot. A nugget:
This will be a pivotal year for American Keg, which Czachor said is losing between $50,000 and $100,000 every month.
But if the price of imported steel is inflated with a defacto tax, shouldn’t that make American-made products more competitive?
No. And the reason is counterintuitive, said Czachor. He believes the cost of American steel will rise while “American businesses will suffer,” he said.
“If there were no tariffs, that would keep the domestic steel prices lower,” Czachor said. “We understand the administration is trying to solve a problem, but it is not holistically getting addressed.”
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
She’s standing strong on her right to proliferate poop.
More Trumpling at the link.
