February, 2024 archive
Foxy Shady 0
David parses the perfidy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness at the politeness show.
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.
The Fifth Columnist 0
At AL.com, John W. Davis savages Donald Trump’s ahistorical, incorrect, incoherent, inane promise to lead the United States to violate its commitment to its NATO allies. Here’s a bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
Former President Trump said he would not defend NATO allies if invaded, if he deemed them financially delinquent. Says Trump, who regularly reneged on just payments to his own contractors. Says Trump who would encourage Russia to, “… do whatever the Hell they want” to our allies. Our NATO allies risked all to trust and join NATO, so to shed Soviet chains and torture chambers. Russia’s leaders want nothing better than to enslave Eastern Europe again.
The Surefire Sales Strategy 0
PoliticalProf sums it up.
Recommended Viewing 0
This show examines dangers that persons invited into their homes without realizing that they were dangers.
It really is quite disconcerting.
I’m watching it on Tubi.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
This song was part of the Piano Puzzler on this week’s Performance Today Weekend. (And, no, we didn’t solve the puzzler.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness can be a moving experience.
Rand Gestures 0
Cliff Schecter discusses Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s reaction to Rand Paul’s Putin fetish. (Warning: Mild language.)
Via C&L, which has commentary.
Tesla Trucks Spotted in Cali 0
A finish with a blemish:
Another forum member, listed as Will, wrote that he noticed corrosion forming across a few days of Los Angeles rain in February. His photo showed dozens of orange and black dots on his Cybertruck’s steel exterior. He later wrote that an application of the cleanser brand Bar Keepers Friend removed the spots easily.
Aside:
I will second the endorsement of Bar Keeper’s Friend. It’s the best brass and copper polish I’ve found.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Des Moines Register, a history professor argues against a bill currently being advanced in Iowa to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the teaching of American history in primary and secondary schools.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood, in the voices of Phryne Fisher and Jillian Henderson:
Phryne: I’m shocked. Have you no regard for the truth?
Jillian: If you had entered the law, you would know that truth is a very dicey quality. “What is truth?” said Pilate, and I have always thought he must have been a solicitor.
Greenwook, Kerry, Flying Too High, in the collection Introducing the
Honourable Phryne Fisher (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011) p. 239.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. Firefox is shaded near the top of the screen under the Plasma menu. Xclock is in the upper right, GKrellM in the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Recently, I ran an online upgrade from v. 8 to v. 9. The online upgrade from v. 7 to v. 8 went smooth as glass, and this one seemed to also, but, when it was done, I was unable to run updates or install new software from the repos. I poked at the problem for a while, but was unable to resolve it, so last night I installed v. 9 from optical media while listening to a BBC Lord Peter Wimsey mystery at the Old Time Radio Theater.
The installation went quickly and easily, and, as I have a separate /home partition, when I fired it up, all my configuration files were still in place without my having to restore anything from backup (and, no, you can’t do that on Windows). I’m currently cleaning up the dust bunnies, such as, for example, installing the few applications, like Xclock and GKrellM, which are not part of the standard Mageia installation.
