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The Internet Devolution 0

Sir Rodney:  What will become of media in the future?  Fortuneteller:  Unlimited access will be granted to all.  People will be so bombarded with media that it will affect their attention spans.  And, dang it!  They've stopped reading.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

When persons make innocent, honest mistakes, point out the error of their ways with politeness.

A woman was attacked while mistakenly walking up the wrong driveway when searching for her acquaintance’s house, with the homeowner shooting at her 17 times as she fled.

(snip)

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QOTD 0

Bob Cesca:

I don’t give liars the benefit of the doubt.

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Shell Game 0

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What Are the Odds? 0

Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro has a question:

Week 1 of college football drew historic TV ratings. That’s proof, it’s being said, that pay-for-play and the portal aren’t the fan turnoffs they were supposed to be. But isn’t it just as likely that online gambling has a lot to do with getting more people to a TV? What do you bet?

Next time you see one of those “you can bet from your phone” commercials, remember that those for-profit competition casinos couldn’t afford to buy all those ads if they weren’t cashing in on the marks and suckers who forget that, in the long run, the house always wins.

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The Fifth Horseman, Reprise 0

Senator John Warner (who I have voted for before and will happily vote for again) calls out RFK Jr.’s hockeypuck and highlights his willful malicious ignorance.

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The Fifth Horseman 0

THe Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse are joined by RFK Jr.  One asks,

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A Report from the Front 0

Eric Chastain, a retired army veteran, writes of what it’s like to live in under military occupation–in this case, in Washinton, D. C. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit of his article.

The sight of troops with weapons patrolling sidewalks, boarding trains and standing post outside coffee shops has now spread from the nation’s second-largest city to the nation’s capital. What was once extraordinary is quietly being treated as routine.

That should alarm us all.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Accomplished? Not really.

An accomplice? Who we knockin’ over, boss?

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s a couplet:

Throughout history would be dictators have used claimed emergencies to enhance their power and to suspend the rule of law. A famous example is how Hitler used the Reichstag fire – which historians believe was set by Hitler’s goons – to claim emergency powers that allowed him to attack opponents and adversaries. The Felon has seized on this playbook . . . .

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Harold Evans:

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Making Childhood Great Again.  Image:  Boy and girl getting off schoolbus.  Boy says,

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Trumped Up Charges 0

Farron discusses how Jeanine Piro keeps trying to throw the book at persons for minor offenses, and how (and why) she keeps missing her targets.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.

A four-year-old boy was injured after police say he accidentally shot himself Tuesday night at a home in the Berclair neighborhood.

And yet again we are again reminded that “accidentally” and “negligently” are not synonyms. Yes, the child may indeed have shot himself accidentally, but a “responsible gun owner’s” negligence made it possible.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Always sure of itself? Is a hot air balloon high on its own supply?

At Psychology Today Blogs, Mona S. Weissmark cautions, “Don’t be fooled by bloviating bots.” She notes:

People often trust AI because it is authoritative, articulate, and seemingly objective. But confident-sounding information can still be completely wrong. The result is an illusion of credibility.

Follow the link for some tips as to how not be taken in by over confident-sounding erroneous bots.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Speaking of Florida Man, it seems that the state of Florida wants to make polio great again.

Afterthought:

Now there’s brilliant political strategy:

    “Kill some kids,
    Own the libs.”

Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.

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The Hand in the Glove 0

Florida Man.

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Jane Wagner:

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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