2024 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Confederate gentlemen ride again.
The slurs were etched into the side of St. Daniels Community Church of Iron Hill.
Meta: Ghost Posts 0
I seem to be experiencing some issues behind the scenes.
Several posts show in my dashboard as having been posted, but don’t appear on the front page. The odd thing is that the posts show up when I visit the site in a text browser, such as w3m, and there is nothing the posts’ syntax that is out of the ordinary.
I’ll deal with it tomorrow.
Not that, in the great scheme of things, they would be any great loss to humanity . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy points out that grifters gotta grift.
Republican Family Values 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye follows the money.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
AI CTO goes all “I don’t know” when asked what data was used to “train” her company’s software. Emma and the crew discuss the potential licensing and copyright issues. (Warning: Mild language.)
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Peter Gariepy suggests that, instead of going to court to block a KKK member who wants to run for the Republican nomination for governor of Missouri, perhaps, instead, the Republican Party should ask itself why a KKK member feels at home running for the Republican Party’s nomination.
The Rule of Flaw 0
At the Hartford Courant, attorneys Kenneth Laska and Michael Jainchill argue that Donald Trump poses a clear and present danger to the concept of the rule of law. A snippet:
Imagine any other civil or criminal litigant making the slanderous and dangerous public statements that Donald Trump has made about the judges and court personnel involved in the civil and criminal cases brought against him. Anyone else would be reprimanded, chastised or found in contempt of court. Donald Trump’s unwarranted assault on the court system gives others permission to disregard and disrespect the courts in future matters. This cannot be allowed to continue.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Yet another news writer demonstrates his or her ignorance of the meanings of the words “accidentally” and “negligently.”
QOTD 0
Ronald Howard, in the voice of Sherlock Holmes:
When dealing with the occult, Watson, it is best to remember the natural phenomena come first.
By the way, if you can find Ronald Howard’s Sherlock Holmes television show on your streaming service, give it a look. It is indeed rather amusing, especially if you are a Sherlockian.
The Eastman Codex 0
Farron looks at a California judge’s ruling that Trump lawyer John Eastman should be disbarred. He starts by noting that the ruling does not disbar John Eastman; rather, that is up the the Bar Association. Nevertheless, the ruling has implications for Donald Trump, as Farron explains.