Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
Prepare for the Ides Of March with us.
When: Thursday, March 14, 6 p. m.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
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Budget Bluster 0
Remember, in Republican World, a federal budget deficit is a cause for crocodile fears only when a Democrat is in the White House. Here’s a bit from the AP’s report on the current state of the deficit:
Trump’s 2017 tax cut bears much of the blame, along with sharp increases in spending for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies and the growing federal retirement costs of the baby boom generation. Promises that the tax cut would stir so much economic growth that it would mostly pay for itself have been proved woefully wrong.
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“Toxic Nostalgia” 0
Methinks she has a point.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Afterthought:
I must say, Gracie Fields reminds me of one of my favorite fictional detectives.
If you like mysteries, get to know her. Her author, Kerry Greenwood, makes words dance.
Beta Dog 0
Farron points out the the United States’s international ratings have been thoroughly Trumpled.
All the News that Fits 0
Foxy shady, one more time.
Facebook Frolics 0
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced efforts to clean up Facebook’s act.
The AP’s Frank Bajak urges us to take that announcement with several pounds of salt. He suggests that it’s Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for a shifting strategy from the Zuckerborg for assimilating its victims users. Here’s a bit from his report:
Facebook “wants to be the operating system of our lives,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of media studies at the University of Virginia.
Aside:
When have any of Facebook’s promises to stop misbehaving come to pass?
Mark Zuckerberg is the Eddie Haskell of Silicon Valley.
All the News that Fits 0
It’s time to stop worrying about “fake news” and start worrying about fake newspapers.
Snopes reports that wealthy right-wing donors are setting up websites pretending to belong to local newspapers and designed to look like local newspaper websites for newspapers that do not, in fact, exist. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Remember, just because you see it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so. Check the bona fides of sources you use for news.
One technique is to check the purported news stories for links to sources; no links indicate dubious or nonexistent sources. Also, links from random Facebook Frolickers and twisty Twitter Trolls are hysterically unreliable.
H/T to The Bob Cesca Show for this news item.