First Looks category archive

Off to drink liberally.

John Locke:

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

This witch.

We went out for breakfast, then swung by the Central Library to cast our ballots. (Virginia Beach satellite early voting sites are open this week, so you don’t have to drive way down into the boondocks to City Hall to vote early.)

There was a line, but it moved along very nicely.

Now all we have left to do is sweat out the wait until the results are in to find out whether we still have a democracy.

The EFF hears a rhyme:

Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook to wage war on your privacy, according to Jake Snow of the ACLU of Northern California. We agree.

Follow the link for a parsing of the poesy.

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*Mark Twain.

No surprises here.

More courtesy on the concrete.

Detectives said the 75-year-old Giddens pulled a rifle out in the middle of the road rage incident, then shot and killed a 40-year-old father of three, identified by the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office as Jeffery Guida.

Giddens then turned the gun towards Guida’s truck where his three children, ages 13, 11 and 2 years old, were and pulled the trigger.

Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .

I am not as charitable as Mike and Farron. They seem to concede that there might be somewhere somehow some legitimacy to crypto.

I think they are, as my old boss used to day, “in error.”

As far as I can tell, crypto is the most fiat of fiat currencies. It’s backed by nothing and no one and has value only because persons think it has value. It is the tulip of the computer age.

It persists only because persons will believe stuff that they see on computer screens when they would not believe the same stuff if it happened in real life before their eyes.

“Broligarchs.”

Methinks it’s spot on.

H/T Kimberley Johnson on last week’s Bob Cesca Show After Party.

In the course of discussing Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson’s refusal to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, David suggests that the past is prologue. He notes that

This is the trap of preparing people to go along with yet another attempt to overturn or invalidate an election.

I think David makes a valid point. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Via Dick Polman, who has commentary.

Off to drink liberally.

Constable Topinka (aka Sergeant Topinka), which follows the (mis)adventures of a self-important, but somewhat–er–less than competent police officer in a small town in the mountains of northeastern Czechia. As near as I can tell from the credits, it is a cooperative effort of Czechian and Slovakian television networks.

The episodes I’m watching are dubbed in English, without subtitles. Frankly, the dubbing is not great, but the stories are an absolute hoot and a lot of fun.

I’m watching it on Tubi, but a web search indicates that’s it’s available on a number of streaming platforms.

Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.

Even if you are not a mystery buff and a Hercule Poirot fan, as I am, it’s worth viewing for the cast, which includes David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, and George Kennedy, among others. And much of it was filmed in Egypt, so the scenery is authentic.

I saw it on Tubi.

Yet another child . . . .

Thus passeth another life in NRA Paradise.