Sabotage as a Strategy 0
David sees a pattern. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Aside:
Yes, I was turned off by what little I saw of the commercial, but I think the David’s commentary is still worth a listen.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.
On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.
To translate, the words
portray the country’s past in a negative light
is New Speak for
tell the truth about.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Attracting acolytes? Apparently.
Or you can read the transcript.
Afterthought:
No matter how gussied up they may be in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, how decked out that may be with bells and whistles and seductive voices, computers are tools that do what their programmers tell them to do.
We forget that at our peril
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
As we all know, politeness takes practice.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
A Notion of Immigrants, One Man’s Story Dept. 0
Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University, tells what it’s like to be renditioned by the Republican thought police because he had the unmitigated gall to dare to express an opinion.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They get fiendlier every day, and, via the Seattle Times, Michael Hiltzik offers some theories as to why.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Whatever happened to what I was taught are the first two rules of gun safety?
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1. Always assume a gun is loaded.
We are a society of stupid.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At The Denver Post, Krista Kafer details the undoing of due process.
Aside:
The most disturbing thing, of course, is that some members of Congress, persons who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution, seem quite willing to violate their oaths of office so as to undermine the very rights guaranteed therein.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0
Intellectually stimulating? Let’s talk about the bridge I’ve got for sale in Brooklyn.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:
Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.
Read the report that Farron discusses.
The Storms This Time 0
Michael in Norfolk explains why, despite what Elon Musk and his minions may think, having a properly-funded Weather Bureau (to use the phrase that was common when I was a young ‘un) is a good thing.