July, 2019 archive
Tips for the Times 0
Meri Wallace offers some tips for surviving the time of Trump.
Suffer the Children 0
Seth and Heather Digby Parton dig into the situation at the southwestern border.
QOTD 0
Jean de La Fontaine:
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Geeking Out 0
The UPS that I had my modem and router plugged into died tonight.
The first symptom was that I could not load a webpage. I tried pinging google.com and 8.8.8.8. Nada, zilch, nothing.
Following the dictum, always check the hardware first, I saw that the router and modem were powered off. I unplugged them from the UPS and plugged them into the wall outlet, and lights started flashing and everything is working again.
I can’t complain. I’ve certainly gotten my money’s worth from that device, as it’s eight or nine years old, and stuff wears out.
As my old car mechanic in New Jersey would have said, that thing didn’t owe me a dime.
I’ll pick up a new one next week.
The Meme Chance 0
Tony Norman comments on the recent spate of videos of white persons calling the cops on not-white persons who are minding their own business. He starts with the recent incident in which, even as the phone call is placed, you can hear the white guy’s little boy pleading with him not to do it. A snippet:
Like “Permit Patty” and “BBQ Becky,” two fellow Bay Area would-be-snitchers that preceded him in media infamy by having their calls to the cops filmed by the indignant subjects of their call, Mr. Cukor operated in a sphere of privilege so elevated that he never considered the possibility that he would have to pay a steep price for being wrong, even after Wesly Michel promised him that he would be “the next” viral video sensation.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Walking Backwards? 0
Thom wonder whether the United States is moving backwards.
“Facts Are What People Think” 2
This remark, often attributed to Ronald Reagan*, seems unfortunately to be increasingly true..
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*I could not verify that attribution.
Unleashing the Stupid 0
We are a society of stupid, and “social” media is encouraging us to unleash the stupid.
And, natch, this happened in Florida.
Afterthought:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A Fourth of July firing.