2024 archive
“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.
Know Them by The Company They Keep,
Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept.
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One wonders just precisely what must one do so as to be given an “honorary membership” in the Ku Klux Klan.
Courting Disaster 0
Seth calls out the con.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Des Moines Register, David Skidmore looks at Republican obstructionism as regards aid to Ukraine and hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
The Vice of the Turtle 0
F. T. Rea ponders the legacy of Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader of the Senate.