Many Happy Returns, Reprise 0
Dick Polman runs the numbers and includes a quote from my elected representative incongruously assembled:
Scott Taylor is a full-blown wingnut, but one who, like many Virginia wingnuts, knows how to behave in public.
By the by, this is perhaps the most surprising and most gratifying single result of this election.
The Persistence of White Supremacy 0
Thom and the Reverend David Billings explore the persistence of white supremacy in America.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Monetize the politeness.
The motive?
The sheriff’s office says the couple hoped to get cash from the company that manages their home. They contacted a personal injury law firm after being released from the hospital. Deputies said the claim of thousands missing from the “phantom” safe is unfounded.
Swift Retribution 0
Joe Patrice explains that, no, copyright doesn’t work like that.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Josh Marshall highlights a troubling trend, one which surprises nobody who pays attention. A snippet:
Many Happy Returns 0
As I have mentioned here from time to time, I do not follow incoming returns the night of the election. Why, I ask myself, should I waste hours looking at the television when I can read the results in 15 minutes tomorrow morning?
Tonight, though, my friend dropped in on the returns and shared some happy news.
I must confess, I am looking forward to tomorrow morning. But, for now, it’s time for another session with Nero Wolfe.
Sleep Fright 0
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404 0
Tom Lawrence explains what happened to your Comcast internet connection yesterday.
You can hear more from Tom on the Sunday Morning Linux Review.
Common Denominator 0
The New York Times wonders what could possibly account for the United States’s highest-in-the-world rate of mass shootings. Oh golly gosh gee, I wonder what it could be.
Let the Massacres Continue 0
Daniel Ruth excoriates the response of Donald Trump and many others to the most recent American gun massacre. If his column sounds kind of tired, the words “most recent” in the preceding sentence may give you a hint as to why. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Even more bizarrely, Trump expressed astonishment that a gunman could enter a church in rural Texas and kill 26 people. “Who would think a thing like this could ever happen?” he wondered.
To answer Trump’s question there in second paragraph, anyone who pays freaking attention to the headlines, for Pete’s sake.
This is the very picture of weaponized imbecility.
It’s Deja Vu All Over Again 0
The Des Moines Register’s, Dick Goodson reports that he feels young again:
As the country moves through the next year or so, it will be very interesting if the majority of Republicans come around on the side of supporting good government as they did in the 70s.
Follow the link for the rest.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
It is always wiser, when there is a choice, to trust to inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
Stout, Rex, Fer-de-Lance (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 174.
Fer-de-Lance was the first Nero Wolfe mystery, published in 1934.
Geeking Out 0
Running Spybot S&D while listening to Old Time Radio in a VM of Windows 7 in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current.
If you use Windows. you should use Spybot S&D.