2025 archive
A Matter of Perspective 0
Why is Donald Trump trying to steal Greenland from Denmark?
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz may have nailed it.
Follow the link for the rest of his article.
Disorder in the Court 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Some polite Facebook frolics.
Republican Thought Police 0
Atrios provides an example of the exercise of freedom of the surpress.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Able to appreciate beauty? Neel Burton, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, points out the, per Kant, it can’t.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Kimball Shinkoskey listens to the man who would be king and hears a rhyme from a millennium ago. A couplet:
Follow the link for context.
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*Mark Twain.
A Bad Spell 0
Methinks they misplet “victimizers.”
The Name Gamer 0
As I mentioned, like my old dog, he has to spread his taint on everything.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play,
For once, note seems to have been taken of the difference between “accidental” and negligent.”
Cui Bono? American Stasi Dept. 0
Who’s making money from the racist crackdown by the New Secesh? Truthout follows the money. A snippet:
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they’re coming for the Smithsonian.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Speaking of the Rerpublican thought police, Karl J. Skutski writes at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of hearing a rhyme from 1930s Russia.
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*Mark Twain.