October, 2020 archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery (Updated) (Updated Again) 0
Addendum:
And a special bonus Trumpling at an Aldi.
Addendum-de-dum-dum
The sign made of bales of hay that was subjected to a fiery Trumpling has been reborn with a new message.
QOTD 0
Patrick Stewart, in the voice of Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
To instantly tranform a society with new technology would be harmful . . . destructive.
Afterthought:
I suspect that, when Picard uttered those words, he did not expect them to become manifest on Earth four centuries before he said them.
Stray Thought 0
Pestering persons with a proliferation of unsolicited text messages is not a profitable tactic for promoting positive political participation.
Especially when the senders think my name is Jeremy and that I live somewhere else.
Also, who the hell is Jeremy?
Suffer the Children–It’s Republican Policy 0
In an article carried by the Las Vegas Sun, Tim Stellar dissects the lies the Trump administration has used to defend its practice of separating migrant children from their parents.
He explores four specific lies. Follow the link for a detailed debunking of each one.
- Lie 1. DHS did not have a policy of separating families to deter migration
- Lie 2: Separating migrant families is just like arresting American parents
- Lie 3: Obama and Bush separated families like this, too
- Lie 4: Family separation has ended
Trick Play 0
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution follows the money.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” (sic) discharges his responsibility.
Geeking Out 2
Listening to the Philo Vance mystery, the Movie Murder Case, from OTR.net with the VLC media player on Magiea v. 7 under the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Oh, and that’s Firefox and Claws Mail in a tabbed window together shaded (or “rolled up”) there towards the top of the screen, and Konsole shaded just beneath them.
You can’t do that in Windows.
