2022 archive
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
Aside:
I must say, I’m getting increasingly annoyed by persons who don’t know what “begs the question” means.
We are watching words lose their meaning before our very ears.
The Rule of Flaw 0
Mona Charen is not sanguine.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
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.
Vaccine Nation 0
There’s a little less disinformation crowding the Disinformation Superhighway today.
QOTD 0
John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:
To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
If you are a mystery buff, find a way to watch Inspector Morse and its spin-off, Inspector Lewis. They are both superb.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
Apparently, words mean what Florida Man wants them to mean.
Details at the link.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
The stupid. It burns.
Originalist Sin 0
Noz has a notion, elegant in its simplicity, for calling out the orginalists’ duplicity.
Because it’s crystal clear that they are originalists of convenience. Originalism will go out the window if it doesn’t fit with what they want to do.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Houston Chronicle follows the money.
Misdirection Play, Show Us Your Papers, Please Dept. 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sees through the smoke screen.
Aside:
Methinks the reason some Republicans and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers are so interested in the affidavit is to find out who had the unmitigated gall to tell truth about Trump to law enforcement.
But I’ve always been accused of being a bit cynical . . . .
Freedom of Screech 0
Federal Court calls out Florida Man’s “Stop Woke Act” for violating the First Amendment.
Overdrafted 0
I used to wonder how persons who use their debit cards to buy $1.39 cups of coffee (just to pick one example) kept track of their bank accounts. Then I read about the overdraft fees that banks collect and realized, they don’t.
Here’s a hint: carry cash.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness tries to fly the fiendly skies.