2022 archive
The Crypto Con 0
El Reg explains non-fungible tokens for dummies.
H/T to Harry Shearer for featuring this on Le Show.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Enjoy the cutting-edge fiendliness.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrated that said phrase is an oxymoron.
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.
Dis Dishonorable Discourse 0
For Veterans Day, Frances Coleman shared some memories of her father, who fought in World War II (as did my own father).
She mused about what he fought for–and about what he didn’t fight for.
Especially, they didn’t die so that this country’s worst enemy could become its own people.
Follow the link for the rest of her article.
Republican Family Values 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the heartlessness of the party of mean for the sake of mean.
A Shining City on a Hill
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Trudy Rubin thinks the shine has worn off from Reagan’s “shining city.” A little bit from her article:
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Corralling the Crazy 0
The moral of the story is simple. Don’t vote for stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness claims the life of yet another child.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who are not who they say they are.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they’re mailing it in.
(snip)
At least three businesses here (The Bronx–ed.) including Archie’s tap and table and Caliente’s seafood – another black owned business – were allegedly targeted.
The story goes on to say that, for all practical purposes, that particular neighborhood used to be a sundown town.
QOTD 0
Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:
TV has become nothing more than the petri dish where this country grows its idiots.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.