2025 archive
QOTD 0
Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby, to DS Ben Jones, voiced by Jason Hughes:
It was true when the show was first broadcast, and it’s still true today.
A Tune for the Times 0
Trump is marking (what he conceives of as) his territory much as my old dog used to do.
Mangy suggests an alternate and, in his opinion, more apt phraseology.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A device that’s dumbing us down? At Psychology Today Blogs, Timothy Cook (no relation to Tim Apple) reminds persons who are letting AI do their brainwork for them that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another child shows politeness to his friend.
The 10-year-old, who is not being named because he is a juvenile, has been arrested for aggravated second-degree battery and juvenile in possession of a handgun. He has been placed in the Renaissance Home for Youth.
And thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
The Crypto Con 0
In the midst of a longer post, almost as an aside, Atrios gets to the heart of the crypto con in five words:
Stray Question 0
Does this headline make you think of anyone in the news?
Rogue State 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones draws upon his own experience in combat during the war in Viet Nam to discuss the Trump maladministration’s overt and willful violations of the rules of war in their campaign against Venezuelan fishing boats.
Just read iit.
Was “Republican Family Values”
Always a Misdirection Play?*
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Thom argues that Republicans have shown that what they value is money, not families.
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*You bet your sweet bippy it was.
The Idiot Box, Dis Coarse Discourse Dept. 0
In case you missed Donald Trump’s televised speech Wednesday night (as I did–I had better things to do, like watching an episode of Midsomer Murders, where the story made sense, and visiting my favorite online forum), the Rude One offers a fine summary of the event.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another child is sacrificed to the NRA’s leaden idol.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Kansas City Star, Joel Mathis argues cogently that the Republican thought police do not just want to stop students from being “indoctrinated” (something that isn’t happening except in their own warped minds:, they want to stop them from learning. He asks
What good is higher education if it doesn’t broaden a student’s understanding of the world?
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts on the matter.
The Republican Health Care Plan:
“You’re on Your Own, Buddy”
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Sam and the crew discuss the Republican nothingburger.
Aside:
If you wonder why the Party of the New Secesh is so determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamnacare” by the Republican Party, I think the answer is quite simple.
Barrack Obama is not white.
And he is a Democrat.
Every time the Party of the New Secesh hear the word, “Obamacare”–a word which they coined, mind you–it reminds them that a not-white Democrat crafted a somewhat successful plan to make America’s health care you-can-hardly-call-it-a system a little fairer, and it drives them nuts.
They just want to make it go away.
But that’s just my take.