2019 archive
Mitt the Flip Clutches His Pearls 0
PoliticalProf sums it up.
The Privatization Scam Meets the Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free 0
It’s supply and demand.
Privatizing prisons creates a demand for prisoners, a demand that the enforcers are happy to supply.
By any means possible.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s nothing like celebrating the New Year politely.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Hope Springs Eternal 0
Shaun Mullen is still an optimist.
Carrion Crows 2
Peter Whoriskey explains the hedge fund buy-out con and how it stiffs honest working persons. A snippet:
The anger arises because although the sell-off allowed Sun Capital and its investors to recover their money and then some, the company entered bankruptcy leaving unpaid more than $80 million in debts to workers’ severance and pensions.
For Sun Capital, this process of buying companies, seeking profits and leaving pensions unpaid is a familiar one. Over the past 10 years, it has taken five companies into bankruptcy while leaving behind debts of about $280 million owed to employee pensions.
The Year in Rebuke, One More Time 0
Juanita Jean catalogs all the winning, so much winning.
The Year in Rebuke, Reprise 0
Take the quiz.
The Fox News President 0
Mike discusses the implications of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s letter in the light of the Donald Trump’s diet of Fox News. (Mike must be truly upset. There’s much less language than usual.)
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (January 3, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
Wahrheitdämmerung 0
Ned Barnett muses on the twilight of truth.