Hope Springs Eternal 0
Shaun Mullen is still an optimist.
Carrion Crows 2
Peter Whoriskey explains the hedge fund buy-out con and how it stiffs honest working persons. A snippet:
The anger arises because although the sell-off allowed Sun Capital and its investors to recover their money and then some, the company entered bankruptcy leaving unpaid more than $80 million in debts to workers’ severance and pensions.
For Sun Capital, this process of buying companies, seeking profits and leaving pensions unpaid is a familiar one. Over the past 10 years, it has taken five companies into bankruptcy while leaving behind debts of about $280 million owed to employee pensions.
The Year in Rebuke, One More Time 0
Juanita Jean catalogs all the winning, so much winning.
The Year in Rebuke, Reprise 0
Take the quiz.
The Fox News President 0
Mike discusses the implications of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s letter in the light of the Donald Trump’s diet of Fox News. (Mike must be truly upset. There’s much less language than usual.)
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
When: Monthly TWUUG meeting at 7:30 p. m. on the first Thursday of the month (January 3, 2018). Pre-meeting dinner at Chicago Uno, JANAF shopping center, 6:00 p. m. (map)
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room (map). (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
Wahrheitdämmerung 0
Ned Barnett muses on the twilight of truth.
Have a Trumpled New Year 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Addendum:
The link to the original image was broken and I could not fix it, but this one expresses a similar thought.
The Year in Rebuke* 0
Dave Barry looks back at 2018 and concludes that
We can summarize 2018 in two words:
It boofed.
We’re not 100 percent sure what “boofing” is, despite the fact that this very issue was discussed in a hearing of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. All we know for certain about boofing is that it is distasteful and stupid.
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*That phrase is not original with me. I shamelessly stole it from Harry Shearer.
The Uncertainty Principle 0
Writing at the Bangor Daily News, Gordon L. Weil explains. A nugget:
The biggest problem facing the U.S. is not immigration, health care or a trade war.
It is uncertainty.
(snip)
The source of the uncertainty is President Trump.
Follow the link for his rationale.