2024 archive
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Many have speculated that there must be something in the water down in Florida. If there is, it sappears Florida law prevents taking any action about it.
In other words, Florida is apparently the home of the dirt pour.
A snippet from the story:
The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that although 83% of voters in Titusville approved a 2022 initiative establishing the right to clean water, the city in Brevard County couldn’t enact it because of a 2020 state law preventing local government from giving rights to bodies of water, plants, and animals.
And, in related news . . . .
Pay Prey To Pray
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Jesu, Mary, and Joseph.
Barnum was wrong. There’s more than one born every minute.
“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”* 0
And, remember, there are those who don’t want us to remember the past, because they do want us to repeat it, and they still rising again after all these years.
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.” Another child.
The complainant, the child’s mother, told officers that she, the victim and two others were laying in a bedroom watching television.
She said she didn’t know how her daughter gained access to the firearm because it was supposed to be secured underneath the mattress.
Methinks “mattress” and “gun safe” are not synonyms.
So many guns. So much stupid.
Bugging Out 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jennifer Gerlach muses on what lessons we can learn from Bugs Bunny.
What’s in a Name? 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Jack Abell would like to know.
Establishmentarians 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lloyd Hill has a suggestion for America’s right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The dialog: That’s Tracy over there. I’m sure of it.
The closed caption: That’s crazy over there. I’m sure of it.
The intelligence: Artificial.
The stupid: Real.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Rep. Melanie Stansbury argues the we are facing McCarthyism v. 2.0, with extra added malice and stupid (commentary by Cliff Shecter).
Via C&L.
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*Mark Twain.
The Entitlement Society 0
A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet more evidence that “responsible gun owner” is a nonsensical phrase . . . .
