May, 2022 archive
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 8 with the Fluxbox window manager. Firefox and Thunderbird are shaded in their titlebar. Xclock and GKrellM are to the right. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Beach Blanket Dingo 0
The country used to slope to the southwest, but, apparently, it now slopes to the southeast, and everything loose now rolls to Florida.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert 0
We are a society of stupid.
Misdirection Play, Polite Society Dept., One More Time 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Michael Spivey runs the numbers and finds the correlation. A snippet:
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The correlation in Figure 2 does not even approach statistical significance. The prevalence of mental illness in a state does not appear to be playing a role in the prevalence of guns deaths in that state.
Follow the link for the more numbers and the figures to which he alludes.
The Privatization Scam 0
Jeff Shapiro looks at the latest antics of Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin as he seeks to undermine public education.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Totally convinced that if background checks were instituted, it could have severe, long-term negative effects on gun sales, (and subsequently on NRA lobbyist donations to campaign funds) NRA poster boys like Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz boldly say NO MORE. (No more questions that is.) A lot of the dead children in school shootings were probably going to expire soon anyway from diseases George Soros manufactured in China with Bill Gates, right?
Power Trippers 0
F. T. Rea gets to the gist:
Here’s what I see: Possessors of assault rifles adore the thrill of shooting those weapons of war.
Follow the link for the rest.
Ragged Individualism 0
University of South Florida Professor Murad Antia notes that, the United States had 12.5 times more deaths from COVID-19 than did Japan as a percentage of population. Indeed, he notes that Florida, with a population about one-fifth Japan’s, had more deaths than Japan.
He looks at some of the cultural issues which he suggests contributed to this. Here’s a snippet:
Here, on the other hand, we have a lot more freedom to do as we like, with dire consequences sometimes. Americans seem to favor individual rights over collective rights. In times of collective crises like World War II, collective rights have taken precedence, but only temporarily. In a nation where “rugged individualism” is infused in its DNA, individual rights eventually take precedence. We witness it in debates over gun control, education, climate change and health care.
(Broken tag fixed.)
