March, 2024 archive
Keeping Up with the Times 0
Thanks to climate change, the saying is now
March showers bring April flowers.
(Or maybe it’s “February showers,” as the daffodils by our back steps started to bloom well over a week ago and now their blossoms are fully deployed.)
What’s in a Name? 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wants to know.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Show off your politeness at the high school sporting event.
An FCSO deputy was already in attendance when the shot rang out. Police later determined Yeager had two loaded handguns in his backpack.
On the bright side, they did conceded that it was negligence.
From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Stinkin’ 0
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells a tale of devolution.
Establishmentarians 0
Hal Crowther tries to figure out how, despite the evidence and the testimony of those who have worked closely in his administration, Republicans cling to Donald Trump. The entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read, but this bit in particular caught my eye:
The Hunt for Hunter 0
David points out that even Fox News admits that there’s no there there.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He had politeness in the bag.
Kerr said an investigation determined that Benjamin Russell Calloway, 70, of Spring Meadows Lane, was shot when the handgun fell out of a golf bag and went off.
I live next to a golf course. (No, I don’t golf–I just point and laugh.) I have not yet seen anything take place on that golf course which would require the presence of a portable phallus, well, a portable phallus other than the ones normally toted about on a golf course.
I do not think it an exaggeration to say that America’s firearms fetish would give Freud pause.
The Art of the Con 0
At NJ.com, Kevin Manahan reports on how Trumpish hucksters gulled the gullible with “Trump Bucks.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Mary McNaughton-Cassill recounts two experiences she had recently when health insurance “AI” bots turned down her claims because, well, they thought they were smarter than her doctors.
Here’s a tiny bit:
It is a distressing read, but methinks a worthwhile one. Go decide for yourself.
Afterthought:
Automating greed does not make it less greedy.
Mitch McConnell’s Parting Words 0
PoliticalProf decodes de code.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Using the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp court case as a starting point, Rebecca Watson discusses how bots and trolls are debasing dis coarse discourse.