March, 2021 archive
Misdirection Play, Cancel Culture Dept. 0
A snippet:
When in doubt, create a moral panic.
Meta: Blogroll 0
I’ve removed some entries from my blogroll because they have not been updated for some time or are no longer active; I do this from time to time. I shall add some new entries over the next few days.
Maskless Marauders 0
F. T. Rea has had enough.
Devolution 0
At the Hartford Courant, James Rosen discusses the Republican Party’s path from being a political party to being, well, a nihilist gang. Here’s a bit:
(snip)
And so, back in Washington, over the coming months I covered the Republicans’ increasingly radical attempts to cripple the federal government. Intoxicated by his newfound power as House speaker, Gingrich’s ambitions extended far beyond the modest reforms in the “Contract with America,” his savvy campaign-marketing ploy. His acolytes, many of them political outsiders with ignorance of government (something that would become a hallmark of Trumpism), followed his dictates with fanatical fervor (another trait of the ex-president’s current congressional enablers).
He makes persuasive arguments, but I think he’s made one fundamental error.
The transformation began almost three decades earlier with Richard Nixon’s odious “southern strategy,” which paved the way for Gingrich.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He spoke the truth (though I doubt this ammosexual was aware of how much truth he spoke).
Why I Put Quotes around “Social” in “Social” Media 0
Because far too often, it’s anti-social.
Susan Cousins describes a recent experience on Twitter:
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
Geeking Out 0
My new laptop from ThinkPenguin. I selected Debian for the distro, and it arrived in a timely fashion with a clean Debian install from the vendor. It’s pictured running the Plasma desktop environment; that’s swisswatch and GKrellM running on the right side of the screen. The wallpaper is from my collection.
It has an i5 CPU. a 500 GB SSD, and 16 GB RAM and works quite nicely, thank you very much.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
