March, 2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A three-year-old shows politeness to his mother.
The NRA would no doubt argue that, had the mother been packing, she could have defended herself.
We are a failing society.
All that Was Old Is New Again 0
In the Portland Press-Herald, Bill Nemitz reminds us that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.*
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*As Mark Twain said.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
In an interview recently, when Trump was asked about the Ukraine situation, he launched into some crazy BS about how this was related to the Green New Deal and that windmills were a root cause of energy market instability or maybe it was daylight savings time. And THIS is a man some believe should be back in charge of the nuclear codes.
Those Consistent Conservatives 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., looks at the record.
You think that’s harsh? You think it’s overly sweeping? The record begs to differ.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
David interviews Alexandra Hudson, who intriguingly argues that “politeness” and “civility” are not the same thing and that we need less of the former and more of the latter.
Stray Thought 0
Daylight savings time is a con and a scam which disrupts our lives twice a year and accomplishes little else.
Similarities 0
John Young enumerates some of the similarities between Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine and Donald Trump’s assault on the 2020 election. Here’s one.
Much like Putin assembling his forces, Trump telegraphed his intentions long before voters had their say.
Then, like Putin, Trump relied on pliant partisans to do the unthinkable, to rationalize tactics they knew they couldn’t.
Geeking Out 0
Updating a VirtualBox VM of Debian from Buster to Sid on Magiea v. 8 under the Fluxbox window mananger.
This is research. I’m planning to update my Thinkpenguin laptop from Buster to Sid. Debian unstable (“Sid” is Debian “unstable,” that is, a bit beyond testing, but not yet released) is more stable than most distros’ stable.
The Climates They Are a-Changing, Wide World of Sports Dept. 0
The Local reports that Norwegian Paralympians returning from China fear for the future of their sports in the face of global warming.
The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0
Have you noticed that, when a credible charge of voter fraud appears in the news, it almost always involves a Republican?
Suffer the Children 0
It’s a Republican thing.