2020 archive
A Modest Proposal 0
At AL.com, Alabama Republican John Meredith has a suggestion for the Republican Party:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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 (February 6, 2020). 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.
Epidemiological Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
Given the similar wording in the twits Farron cites, one must needs wonder to what extent they may have been of robotic genesis.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Introduce children to politeness at an early age.
A bullet remained lodged Sunday in one Emahleeah’s vertebrae. It missed her spinal cord by about an inch, according to her father.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Stray Question, A Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
I once knew someone who was “second generation Italian.” The family’s grandmother came to the United States as a baby, sleeping in the drawer of the family dresser in steerage on the boat.
Am I the only person to see the distasteful irony of someone named “Cuccinelli” being rabidly against immigration?
Dis Coarse Discourse, Tilting at the Bernie Windmill Dept. 0
I am not a fan of Bernie Sanders.
I admit that this is a purely personal reaction and concede that it is fed partly by the obnoxious behavior of a segment of his acolytes, the “Bernie Bros,” rather than one based on rational analyses of positions on issues before the polity.
Nevertheless, I must say that much of the opposition to his candidacy amongst what was called, when I was a young ‘un, “the Establishment” (as witness the meltdown by Chris Matthews that has been much in the news) is based on a mythical Bernie construct little related to the reality of his positions on the issues or to his record.
Martin Longman, in considering a recent column by David Brooks (aka, the man who is always wrong), offers an excellent analysis of said mythical Bernie construct.
I commend it to your attention.
Afterthought:
I don’t base my vote on whether I find someone likable (or whether I’d like to have a beer with him or her, for Pete’s sake).
And you shouldn’t either.
Racism Goes Coronaviral 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, television newsperson Nydia Han, who is of Asian descent, makes a request:
My dad does not have coronavirus. Neither do I. So please don’t treat us like we do.
Follow the link for the rest, and feel shame that she had to say it.
. . . To an Epidemic of Stupid 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., offers a eulogy for competence. A snippet:
Follow the link for the recap.
From an Epidemic of Epidemiology . . . 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Eva Ritvo notes the dissonance:
She goes on to offer some hints for remaining sane as the coronavirus goes, you will pardon the expression, viral.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Sam discusses Betsy DeVos’s commitment to charter schools and the smokescreen of sophistry surrounding charter school privatization scam.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” exorcises his responsibility.