2019 archive
In Translation 0
Susan Estrich parses what she considers the key passage in the Mueller Report. A nugget:
Meaning, “We aren’t going to apply the law to him. You can.”
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Geeking Out 0
The Fluxbox window manager on Ubuntu MATE. If you seen some of my other screenshots, you already know that I like an analog clock in the upper right and GKrellm in the lower right.
Psyops 0
Eric Hazeltine theorizes that Russian interference in American politics (and, no doubt, others’ politics) benefited from a deep understanding of psychology and tribalism. Here’s a snippet:
Specifically, I believe the Russians took advantage of what evolutionary psychologists call “Darwinian scripts” operating deep in the brains of the American public, especially “scripts” encouraging tribal conflict.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0
The North Jersey Record takes a long, in-depth look at how vaccinations became controversial. I commend the article to your attention. Here’s a bit:
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, also chided Amazon for accepting paid advertising from anti-vaccine groups.
Russian Internet trolls and bots (one used the hashtag #VaccinateUS) have also “weaponized” public health messages to sow discord among the American public, using vaccines as a wedge issue, researchers found.
By issuing both anti- and pro-vaccine tweets and memes they attempt to make it seem vaccine safety and efficacy are open to debate and create mistrust of public health institutions and experts.
I can remember pictures of rows of children suffering from polio ensconced in iron lungs. And today we have some who would willingly bring those days back.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
It’s unclear where the little girl was shot.
Police said she was alert and asking questions when first responders got to the scene.
The stupid. It burns.
Twits on Twitter 0
Martin Longman discusses the permeation.
Aside:
This correlates with the increase in incidents of Trumpling.
“The Bourne Identity” 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, as we know, a polite society is a clean society.