2024 archive
Suffer the Children 0
Farron discusses Republicans’ opposition to Joe Biden’s attempt to help poor students get out from under crushing student loan debt.
I think not enough attention is paid to skyrocketing college tuition costs.
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, my parents were able to pay my and my brother’s college tuition bills. Now, my parents were not rich, but they were relatively well off, and the college bills were within their reach.
By the time my kids were ready for college, we and they had to take out loans. The tuition was not within our reach.
These days, college tuition seems to be beyond the reach of all but the most wealthy.
It’s probably my cynical nature, but I can’t help but suspect there is something hinky about how the increase in tuition cost has outstripped the pace of inflations..
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play,
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 Undammed 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is skeptical that any court’s gag order with stifle the flood of vitriol, venality, and viciousness that streams daily from Donald Trump. A snippet:
Here Comes the Judge 0
The Late Show imagines how Judge Judy would react to Donald Trump.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom reviews the racist tactics of the Party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing. Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, and even Barry Goldwater must be turning over in their graves.
Wherever Did He Get That Idea? Dis Coarse Discourse Dept. 0
LZ Granderson has the revolutionary notion that known liars should have no role in covering the news.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness.
An 80-year-old woman is dead after being shot in the head in Jackson.
(snip)
According to the detective, there were multiple shooters. He says they were trying to shoot someone else who was supposed to be at the home, but wasn’t there.
We are a failed society.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:
Only the man who knows too little knows too much.
Stout, Rex, The Golden Spiders (New York: Bantam, 1955) p. 10
Meta: Ghost Posts 0
No posts went ghost today.
Still trying to figure out yesterday.
Freedom of Screech 0
Above the Law reports that, following Donald Trump’s attacks on the families of various court personnel, including Judge Merchan’s daughter, Trump’s gag order has been extended to include said family members, but that
Details at the link.
Driven to Destruction 0
The other day, I had a very scary experience.
I was behind a Tesla with a little bumper sticker that said, “I’m probably on autopilot.”
I’m just glad I wasn’t in front of it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More neighborly politeness:
On Saturday, March 30th, police responded to a shots fired call in the area of the Boothsville Apartments in Fairmont.
They spoke to a man who claimed that a bullet went through his wall and up into his ceiling, while he and his 11-year-old daughter were home.