Nixon Had the Plumbers, Trump Has the . . . Leakers? 0
One of the characteristics of Special Counsel’s Mueller’s investigation has been the absence of leaks. The team, all experienced investigators, knows how to keep its collective mouth shut. (That’s why you haven’t seen much about the investigation here; I don’t care much for speculation and there’s been little in the way of facts about what’s going on behind the Mueller curtain.)
So who was responsible for yesterday’s leak of topics that that team wishes to address with Donald Trump?
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal makes a coherent argument that Donald Trump’s lawyers are engineered the leak. Here’s a bit of his reasoning:
Aside:
I admit this is speculation, despite what I said above, but I’ve read enough of Mystal’s writing to respect his reasoning.
Speaking Truth to Cower 0
Thom muses on the furor over the White House press corps dinner and offers his opinion as to what Michelle Wolf said that most angered the media minions.
If the embed doesn’t work, click this link. I do not know what’s going on with the embeds–it may just be one of my machines, but too cautious is better than not cautious enough.
Facebook Frolics 0
Aside:
Frankly, I sympathize with the frolicker, but I believe that he forgot, as many do, that the internet is a public place, and one should comport oneself accordingly.
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 (May 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.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
Deputies soon found two people from an adjacent property who had been target shooting just before Almond was found dead. Three guns, as well as ammunition, were seized from the two.
When I was growing up, I would set up cans on a log and practice shooting them. Knowing that even a .22 calibre bullet from a rifle can carry up to a mile (and, at close range, can penetrate through seven 3/4-inch thick pine boards before lodging in the eighth), I would not do that during hunting season, as there might have been hunters in the woods, the woods you can see behind the house in the picture on the banner at the top of the page.
And these clowns–maybe not the ones mentioned in the story, but certainly some clowns in the neighborhood–were shooting in the direction of a residence.
Nerd Prom Pr0n 0
PoliticalProf explains why the White House press corps was shocked–shocked! I say–that someone dared commit humor at their little insider party.
Facebook Frolics 0
Oh what a tangled web the Zuckerborg weaves,
as these discovered when they tried to leave.
Snowflakes 0
(If the embed doesn’t work, click here. And, no, I don’t know what the problem is. The code looks fine.)
And this surprises you how?
The Environmental Protection Pollution Agency
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Robert Redford has penned a scathing indictment of Scott Pruitt’s malfeasance. A nugget:
He’s not protecting the environment. Pruitt has become a one-man public-health risk to the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. From day one, he has worked to gut the EPA and hamstring its ability to protect the environment and public health. He works on behalf of the fossil-fuel industry and other industrial polluters, not the American people. That’s the greatest scandal – and the reason, first and foremost, he’s got to go.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
After all, turkeys also walk on two legs . . . .
QOTD 0
Robert van Gulik:
And both nearing middle age, when passion burns with a more intense fire than in one’s youth.
van Gulik, Robert, The Phantom of the Temple (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995), p. 174
Swoosh! 0
That’s the sound of the broom sweeping sexist pigs out the door at Nike. A nugget:
As women — and men — continue to come forward with complaints, Nike has begun a comprehensive review of its human-resources operations, making management training mandatory and revising many of its internal reporting procedures.
Nowhere that I ever worked did I witness conduct like that described in the article.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Slip yourself a little politeness on the side . . . .
