“Stand and Deliver” 0
Josh Marshall tries to make sense of the Republican Party’s rush to rape the middle and lower classes with its tax bill. A snippet (emphasis added):
The Republican tax deform bill is to the poor and middle class what Harvey Weinstein was to women.
Facebook Frolics 0
Germany suggests the Facebook is being intrusive. I’m shocked, shocked, I say.
“We are mostly concerned about the collection of data outside Facebook’s social network and the merging of this data into a user’s Facebook account,” said Bundeskartellamt president Andreas Mundt.
He noted that this data gathering “even happens when, for example, a user does not press a ‘like button’ but has called up a site into which such a button is embedded.” Visiting a webpage with a Facebook ‘like’ button on it phones homes some info about the netizen to the Mark-Zuckerberg-run business, in other words.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness goes for the dogs:
Deputies say this was no accident. They arrested Todd Sweitzer after finding Remi’s 3 GPS dog collar trackers in his home as well as the gun used in the shooting.
Just another day in NRA Eden.
Throwing Away the Key 0
Sam Seder and Katherine Hawkins discuss the bizarre proceedings that masquerade as “justice” in President George the Worst’s most enduring legacy–the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay.
You can read Katherine Hawkins’s article here.
Facebook Frolics 0
In case you ever wondered why I seldom use Facebook and why, when I do, I do so only in “private” or “incognito” mode, the reason is quite simple.
The Zuckerborg makes the NSA look like amateurs.
Newspeak, Reprise 0
Daniel Ruth comments on the proscription of the Center for Disease Control’s vocabulary. A snippet:
Sort of puts a new spin on swearing like a schoolmarm, doesn’t it?
Just why an agency charged with doing stuff related to health, which unfortunately requires committing science, would be prohibited from using words and phrases that are an intrinsic part of the medical lexicon isn’t entirely clear. But this is an administration that recoils in horror over a term like “climate change” as if it was a line of dialogue from Reservoir Dogs.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Let’s have open-carryings-on.
If more persons had guns in their pockets, this would no doubt not happened.
Afterthought:
Why the hell was he packing in the first place? Was he afraid the horses were going to make a break for it?
Furrfu.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen’s mind is boggled.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
. . . a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks (New York: Pyramid, 1963), p. 137
Not with a Bang, with a Whimper 0
I cannot help but fear that Jason330 is correct.
Missed Messages 0
Juanita Jean explains the true moral of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”
Suffer the Children 0
In related news, Will Bunch comments on Republican profiles in courage:
More courageousness at the link.
Hints for the Holidays 0
Gina Barreca offers some guidelines at The Hartford Courant. Here’s a sample:
(snip)
Don’t ever say, “I’m sure he only did that because he likes you. Lighten up.”
Don’t ever say, “Lighten up.”
More at the link.