Republican Family Values 0
They don’t seem to apply to families.
At the Detroit Free-Press, Debbie Dingell, who represents Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, looks at the harm the Trump maladministration is doing to Americans’ health and health care. A snippet:
An estimated 17 million people could lose their health care as a direct result. And premiums for everyone will go up. Without enhanced premium tax credits for ACA marketplace plans, more healthy people will drop coverage, making the risk pool sicker on average and more expensive to insure.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
They found politeness is a parking space.
Police say the two initially walked away from each other, but Floyd came back. The victim used bear spray on Floyd and investigators say that’s when Floyd pulled out a gun and fired three shots as the victim ran into an alley.
We are a broken society.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Truthful? Pigs. Wings.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Timothy Cook (no relation to Tim Apple) offers a four-step process for tricking AI into revealing its biases and fabrications.
Given the hype and hyperbole about these robotic search engines and given how many browsers and websites are trying to hornswoggle us into letting AI bots do our thinking for us, it is a worthwhile read.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Establishmentarians 0
Methinks the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun makes some good points in advocating that establishmentarians who want to use the government to conduct their inquisitions should pay to play.
Me, I’m a disestablishmentarian. I believe that established churches should be disestablished.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via WHYY, the AP looks at how the Republican thought police are leaning on learning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another case of politeness on the pavement.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Roger Kerson makes a strong case that “Musk” rhymes with “Ford.”
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*Mark Twain.