2020 archive
A Taxonomy of Trolls 0
You can’t tell the preyers without a program.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
Investigators are now saying the shooting was accidental. The 22-year-old man accused of pulling the trigger is a registered CPL holder who was showing off a new handgun, according to authorities.
He didn’t realize the gun was loaded until it went off, killing his friend, police said.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Decoding De Code 0
Frank Harris III, writing at the Hartford Courant, translates Trump (and, by extension, Trumpery).
The Rule of Lawless 0
Jim Jones, former Idaho Attorney-General and State Supreme Court Justice, is not happy with how his state’s U. S. Senators comported themselves in the impeachment trial.
A Saucerful of Secrets* 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Guy P. Harrison explores the continued fascination with unidentified flying objects and the desire of many to turn them into alien space craft. A nugget:
My own theory is that any civilization smart enough to circumvent the laws of physics and achieve interstellar flight is also smart enough to avoid our kind like the plague we are.
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*With apologies to Pink Floyd.
Obsession 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., reacts to Franklin Graham’s criticism of the Super Bowl halftime show. A snippet (emphasis added):
Beg pardon, but is it not a moral concern when you rip babies from parents’ arms? When the planet burns? When hate crimes spike? When government steals ballots — and thus, voices — from vulnerable voters?
You’d think these would be moral issues, yet somehow, the right never frames them as such. Congress robs the poor to give to the rich, people are sick because being healthy costs too much, a black man in Mississippi is doing 12 years for possession of a cellphone … and there is nary a flicker of indignation from the likes of Graham. But let a barely sheathed buttock flicker across his screen, and he’s apoplectic?
Read the rest. It’s worth the three minutes.
Full Disclosure:
I did not watch the Super Bowl.
All I’ve seen of the halftime show is a few pictures in the media.
It looks to me a lot like what happens in Las Vegas every day of the year.
PETA PITA 0
Sometimes I can sort of maybe understand where PETA is coming from a perhaps a tiny little bit, then they come out with something like this.
Super Bowl Boor
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Self-important culture warrior throws penalty flag for “backfield in motion.”