2019 archive
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
One of the brain’s most efficient departments is the one that turns possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1971), P. 123.
How Far Will Wells Fargo 0
One more time, pretty damned far.
The Lies of the Land 0
Will Bunch wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
Follow the Money 0
Trump’s political appointees will get raises as federal employees furloughed during the Trump shutdown suffer.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Above the Law reports on taking legal depositions during the Trumpling.
Afterthought:
Perhaps the most poisonous fruit of the Trumpled tree is that Donald Trump through his behavior has given bigots and haters permission to go public.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
(Link fixed)
Drive-thru politeness:
Brower grabbed a .45 semi-automatic handgun that belonged to his father from the pocket on the back of the front passenger seat. The gun discharged by mistake, shooting the child in the face, police said.
Aside:
“Discharged by mistake” is the most creative misspelling of “negligently” I’ve yet seen.
Mosquito Hawk 0
Not what I would expect to see on January 2, but I also did not expect to ride my bike in a sunny 70 Fahrenheits on January 1.
Plus ca Change 0
Over at Gin and Tacos, Ed is not sanguine. A snippet:
Authoritarians don’t have any strategy for digging themselves out of a hole except to do everything they’re doing, but harder. Changing course is not a thing they’re emotionally capable of doing.
