2024 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” chooses to display his politeness on the pavement.
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 Happiest Place on Earth” 0
I don’t know where that is, but, as Gene Collier reports, it ain’t here. A snippet:
So that’s it; unhappily enough, we’re 23rd, 10 slots beneath Kuwait and nowhere near the perfectly chilled utopia that is Finland, which finished No. 1 for the seventh consecutive year. Generally, it again appears from the Top 10 that if you want to be happy, your chances spike dramatically in a smallish country that’s very cold.
Industrial Devolution 0
And, in related news:
(snip)
“Over half of littered single-use plastic bottles collected during Truckee Day, the annual Town-wide litter cleanup, were water bottles,” the town of Truckee wrote in a March 17 news release. “These plastics do not decompose but break apart into harmful microplastics that enter local waterways and are potentially consumed by wildlife or the public.”
A Pillow of the Community 0
Mike Lindell discovers that actions (sometimes) have consequences.
Afterthought:
Methinks F. T. Rea’s musing on “the believers,” though he does not mention Lindell, may cast some light on how Lindell got to this point. A snippet:
Stray Question 0
I wonder whether, if I owed a court money, I could talk the judge into cutting it by two-thirds just because I said it was too high?
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Writing at the Arizona Republic, E. J. Montini takes issue with a fake elector who is trying to claim that he did nothing wrong. A snippet (emphasis added):
Actually, I think the republic was founded on the democratic principle that voters — not fake electors — decided elections
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Follow the link for more of Montini’s musings on the matter.
The Money Pit 0
Seth discusses why big money donors seem reluctant to donate to a man known for not paying his debts.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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San Francisco judge dismisses Elon Musk’s empty suit.
Some of the judge’s comments, as quoted in the news story, delight the soul.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Both Sides Don’t Dept. 0
In a longer post about NBC’s fatuous decision to hire Trump apparatchik Ronna MacDaniel, Dick Polman points out a major fallacy in how media covers political news (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the full article.
Much Ado about Not Much of Anything:
What Drives Drivel on the Disinformation Superhighway
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I found the recent recent who-shot-john about Princess Kate to be–er, what’s the word I’m looking for?–stupid. Here’s a person who’s in the public eye only because of whom she’s married to, and who she’s married to is in the public eye only because he’s descended from folks who use to rich, influential, and powerful, persons who are now rich and not very influential (and, to the extent they are influential, they choose not to exercise influence, for fear the hollowness thereof will be exposed). Yet, persons spent a week or more speculating, questioning, and conspiracy theorizing on “social” media because she had not been seen in public for a couple of months.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan Albers takes a look at the the dynamics that powered this spectacular waste of time and energy, concluding that
Methinks her article is worth a read, as it sheds some light on how and why falsehood, irrelevance, and just plain stupid jams up the disinformation superhighway.