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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Aside:
A strong case can be made that Helen Kane was the inspiration for the classic cartoon character, Betty Boop.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
And it’s been a lot of years, indeed, over a millennium and counting.
Via The Japan Times, UGa. professor Stephen Mihm offers a brief history of the chattel slavery of African people. He notes that
Methinks it a timely and worthwhile read, as the myth of racial superiority created to justify it continues to poison the polity.
Mongers of Hate, Reprise 0
At the Psychology Today website, John Tsilimparis argues that “(t)he recent social media outburst from the highest levels of leadership is a result of narcissistic rage.” He then goes on to explore how such outbursts and the type of you-can’t-really-call-it thinking behind them helps poison dis coarse discourse.
His article is well worth the few minutes it will take to read it.
Mongers of Hate 0
Thom discusses how today’s Republican Party has weaponized hate and faction over the last four decades.
Aside:
I think that Thom is quite correct about the legacy of Ronald Reagan, but I think he should also have included as a contributing factor Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy, which has turned the party of Lincoln into the party of Jefferson Davis.
Honest to Pete, if Ev Dirksen or Nelson Rockefeller came back from their graves, they would be ashamed of what their party has become.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. Rather, it’s a Republican family value.
Truth in Labeling 0
The only massive voter fraud is Republicans’ false claims of massive voter fraud.
Image via Job’s Anger.
The Trumpettes 0
Thom talks with Mary Trump about Trump’s threats to commit war crimes against Iran and about the persons who are enabling and pretending that Donald Trump is, as my old doctor used to say, “within normal limitw” protecting Donald Trump.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, as we know, politeness is a family value.
Suffer the Children 0
Once again, we are prsented with evidence suggesting that that is not scripture, but, rather, a Republican fmaily value.
QOTD 0
John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby, and Montserrat Lombard, in the voice of Philomena Bell
Bell: Seb says it’s the modern disease.
Barnaby: What is?
Bell: Chronic dissatisfaction.
(Typo fixited.)
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A worm engineered to eat your brain? At the Psychology Today website, Jeremy G. Schneider, explains how, despite being a machine that doesn’t think, but rather regurgitates, “AI is engineered to create the feeling of connection and understanding,”
I knew that was just coding, that this was the AI engagement engine at work.
Aside:
I am reminded of Harry Shearer’s suggestion from some months ago that “robots should talk like robots.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.
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.