August, 2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner discharges his responsibility.
Twits on Twitter 0
A twit with no self-awareness (and that surprise you how?).
When the Truth Hurts . . . . 0
Methinks he doth protest too much.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini highlights the hypocrisy.
Mongers of Fear, What’s in a Word? Dept. 0
What’s in a word? The short answer is, well, “fear.”
Via Job’s Anger.
Aside:
You can see the full quotation at Wikiquote.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At NJ.com, Michael A. Gottesman argues convincingly that DEI is the new CRT.
Danse Macabre 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susanna Newsonen tries to figure just what was the big deal about the Prime Minister of Finland’s daring to dance at a party with her friends.
The Box Boy 0
In Translation . . . . 0
. . . which is why, when we needed a new stove and dishwasher earlier this year, I told the salesman, “I don’t want any ‘smart’ appliances. Google doesn’t need to know when I turn on a burner . . . .”
Afterthought:
Yes, they both decided to fail on the same week, but they had served us well for many years.
(Broken link fixed.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner proves that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Happy Birthday to Me 2
As of today, this blog has spent 17 years chronicling the decline of the American polity.
Of course, that was not the original intent.*
But that seems to be what it has become.
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*The original intent was to simply self-host a website from a server in my guest room and learn stuff because I could, after an acquaintance told me that, by using Linux, I could self-host my website. I moved my existing website from members.aol.com to my home web server, one of the original IBM Pentiums which a coworker had given to me, and, on a whim, I added a blog. I brought the site live from my guest room with the help of noip.com on Slackware v. 10.x 17 years ago today.
Of course, I no longer self-host, and the blog is all that remains of my original site, as the rest of it became so outdated as to be no longer relevant to anything. But I shall keep the blog relevant . . . .
