2022 archive
Sauce for the Goose . . . 0
. . . sauce for the gander.
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Aside:
Farron missed the undercurrent. Let’s decode the code.
When right-wingers attack “welfare,” they are invoking the spirit and racist imagery of Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen.” The word “welfare” has become yet another racist dog whistle.
Stray Question 0
Why are so many persons surprised that the party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party is acting like today’s Republican Party?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Share your politeness with your loved ones.
“An uncle was visiting the residence. He does not normally live there, and he had a gun. The 9-year-old male found the gun and accidentally discharged, striking the 4-year-old in the head,” said Major Susan Cotter of Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
And again we are reminded that the elusive “responsible gun owner” is a creature of myth.
The (Kevin) McCarthy Era 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott discusses the core value of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a teeny-weeny bit of his article:
Another Voter Fraud Fraudster 2
Again, I think this is a classic example of projection.
Republicans are willing to cheat, so they believe everyone else is also willing to do so.
Stray Thought 0
T think it can be argued that Republicans are attacking public schools and public school teachers because educated voters are inimical to their intentions.
Meta: A Message to a Comment Spammer 0
From the spam commenter:
Hmm it seems like your website ate my first comment (it was super long) so I guess I’ll just sum it up what I submitted and say, I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog. I too am an aspiring blog blogger but I’m still new to the whole thing. Do you have any tips for first-time blog writers? I’d definitely appreciate it.
Yes indeedy-do. And it will continue to eat your spam comments and spit them back out.
Hoick! Ptui!
Aside:
The spam was not in the faux comment itself; that seemed innocent enough, like the quotation above. It was in the commenter’s (purported) email address, which linked to a hinky website.
It was not the first comment linking to said hinky website. It was more like the eleventy-first. And it will certainly not be the last.
Fortunately, I have software that catches the creeps and quarantines them so I can evaluate (and delete) them at my leisure. You have no idea how many creeps it has caught since I first blundered into the blogosphere a decade and a half ago. Heck, neither do I! But it’s well into the hundreds, if not the thousands.
Said software has served me and my two or three regular readers well.
Phoning It In 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal, whose job involves dealing with health insurance companies, describes dealing with “customer service” robots.
If you’ve ever spent 45 minutes or an hour trying to get through to a real live human being, only to be disconnected (thank you, land line telephone company), you will be able to empathize with her. Here’s a bit.
Craven Images 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., muses on what happens when you create your God in your own image. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
And they hold to that false deity with ferocious vigor. Author Eddy Harris once described a conversation with a white woman in Mississippi whose mother belonged to a whites-only church in the 1960s. The older woman was asked whether Jesus would have allowed African Americans to worship in his church. “Of course he would have,” she said, “but Jesus would have been wrong.”
