October, 2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
We are a failed state.
Car Talk 0
Not content with spamming my phone, sometimes multiple times a day, the car warranty scammers have resorted to using the mail.
I have received two car warranty scam letters in the past two days.
Aside:
When put down in black and white (or, to be more accurate, in one letter in black and green and in the other black and light red), the hockey puck is even more obvious in print than it is in a phone call.
Plus, I checked with a local Ford dealer in regards to something other. My vehicle is under factory not-about-to-expire warranty for three more years, even though I purchased it used. (I would not get an extended warranty from anyone other than the manufacturer on a bet and probably not even then.)
I must say, though, that this must be a lucrative scam if the scammers are actually willing to pay for postage to perpetuate it . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to your neighbor when remonstrating with him about the behavior of his feline companion.
He went to his neighbor’s home in Umatilla and threatened to shoot the cat, officials said.
James Arland Taylor Jr., 41, asked him not to shoot the cat, according to deputies. That’s when Bliss shot Taylor, they said.
“Citizen’s Arrest! Citizen’s Arrest!” 0
The EFF looks at the proliferation of what it refers to at one point as “neighborhood watch” apps and reminds us, once again, that “social” media isn’t. They mention three apps specifically: Citizen, Nextdoor, and Neighbors.
A snippet:
A Teaching Moment 0
As I pulled into the parking lot at my barbershop for my October haircut, driving my new(er) car with the top down, a woman was coming out of the adjacent child care center with her son, who looked to be about four years old.
As I maneuvered into a parking space, I could hear her say, “It’s called a convertible.”
Immunity Impunity
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I suspect that I’m not the only person who might find this to be rather a bit of overreach–and not just a little sadistic.
“But There’s No Other Possible Explanation” 0
New York University’s Social Justice Lab explores why persons who lean right politically are more susceptible to conspiratorial thinking than those who lean left. Here’s a bit, in which University of Cambridge (UK) professor Professor Sander van der Linden responds to a question:
Give the entire piece a read. It helps illuminate dis coarse discourse.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
David discusses how the pandemic paranoia is being harnessed to fuel anti-semitism. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Here’s the link to the MIT report David refers to.
