It’s Showtime! 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear suggests that Trumpery is all about the spectacle. A snippet:
Trump’s obsession with spectacle continues. He still attacks “fake news” even in interviews with the AP and other mainstream news outlets that give him a platform. In his most recent interview he has infamously gloated about how his ratings on cable news were the highest since 9/11. He has defended Sean Spicer’s ineptitude by citing his “ratings” as well. He dropped the much-promoted “Mother Of All Bombs” in a military operation that was more spectacle that war. He has called the entire Senate to come be briefed by him in what is likely a photo-op rather than a national security summit.
Trump is a medicine show, and persons bought enough snake oil to blow up the world.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a load of the politeness.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that 55-year-old Darryl Rudolph was in a storage room fixing items at Sugar D’s Adult Club in West Palm Beach on Friday when another worker moved a gun off a shelf in an adjacent room and it fired.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
Neolinguistics 0
At The Roanoke Times, John Long updates the glossary. A snippet:
• “I don’t know what time it is. I left my phone in the car.”*
• “I wanted to take a picture but I didn’t have enough memory.”
• “I got a discount on my cup of coffee! Only four bucks!”
• “I wanted to finish my book today, but the battery died.”
More neologisms at the link.
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*That’s mine.
I haven’t worn a watch since that day about 10 years ago when I was at a job site discussing with three other folks about my age when to schedule a demonstration of something. After someone said, “What time is good?” all three of us pulled out our cell phones to check the time . . . .
Meta: Now You See It, Now You Don’t 0
If you were here long enough to see posts appearing and disappearing, it was happening because I was testing to find out what about certain posts was making my sidebar disappear.
Lost in a Lost World 0
Over reliance on a GPS device may be hazardous to your brain.
(I knew there was a reason to like maps besides that they are fun to look at.)
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Florida legislature works on new plans to convert the public good to private theft profit.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Will Bunch has more. A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is going to the dogs.
According to police, one of the individuals walking allegedly tried to shoot the attacking dog using a legally permitted gun, but accidentally shot another person they were walking with in the lower extremity.
Work Stoppage 0
Josh Marshall marvels at Trump’s threats to Trumple the govenment. A snippet:
This looks for all the world that the Republican Party is ready to secede, if not de jure, then certainly de facto.
More at the link.
Damn Computers 0
Expect you to obey the rules.
Grumble grumble grumble.
Most of the posts I had lined up for today don’t seem to be visible. There were several posts between “Career Move” and “And Now for Something Completely Different.” Figuring this out requires parsing the syntax of each one.
It seems to have something to do with this embed, for it and the some of the posts following it are not visible. Then posts are visible again. I previewed each post individually and each one worked, so it’s definitely something meta.
Blogging can be a most annoying avocation.