Qualification Nation, Reprise 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, John A. Danaher provides a real-life example of one who would fail the test cited in the previous post.
Squeaker of the House 0
PoliticalProf runs the numbers.
It’s Not about the Benjamins (Despite Claims to the Contrary) 0
Michael in Norfolk offers a theory as to why Republicans are against aiding Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion.
A Prophecy Fulfilled 0
H. L Menchken:
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The juvenile fired one shot on Monday night, hitting one child in the arm and the other in the torso, Apopka police Chief Mike McKinley said during a news conference.
We are a broken society.
Geeking Out 0
Debian Sid with the Fluxbox window manager on a ThinkPenguin laptop. Firefox and KeePassxc are shaded*. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Aside:
Debian Sid (aka “Debian Unstable”) is more stable than many Linux distributions’ (aka distros’) stable.
I now have two ThinkPenguin laptops, one of which I’m using as a media center. I’m quite satisfied with both of them.
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*No, you can’t shade or “roll up” windows on Windows. I also don’t think you can do it on iJunk, but I have relatively little experience with crapple that product.
How Far Will Wells-Fargo? 0
Pretty damned far, and all they get is a slap on the wrist. In the video, Mike points out:
In corporate America, they don’t look like criminals because they’re all dressed up. They got gold chains, they got Rolex watches, they came up in a Jaguar, so they don’t look like criminals, and this is how we treat them, because they don’t look like criminals.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Roy Johnson makes a compelling case that Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville prefers to judge persons, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
Trump Cards and Trumpbots 0
At Pyschology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman discusses how jerks jerk people about. (For some reason beyond my ken, he chooses to refer to them as “trumpbots.”) Here are his main points; follow the link for an in-depth exploration of each one.
- Wisdom is knowing the healthy moves for the different circumstances.
- The opposite of wisdom is absolute hypocrisy, which can be had by claiming that whatever you do is the best.
- People grant themselves trumped-up (fake) trumpcards, whereby whatever they do is automatically ideal.
- We enable “trumpbots” by thinking that they think or believe or care about anything but winning.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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“Freedom of speech” is not freedom to lie, though some persons act as though it is.
(snip)
“The reality is that too many powerful people with enormous audiences are being reckless with their accusations against private people,” reads the lawsuit against Musk. “The damage they cause is not easily repaired by apologies or counter-speech, no matter how persuasive. Repair of reputations, compensation for harm, and effective deterrence can only occur in our courts.”
Much more at the link.
The Rising Star 0
Methinks that Texas A & M student Hudson Kraus has a bright future in today’s Republican Party.
No There There 0
Tom Moore looks at House Republicans’ impeachment “inquiry” and concludes
Follow the link for his reasoning.
