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The Crypto Con 0

Above the Law’s Joe Patrice reports on a court’s ruling that not only do words have meaning, so too do pictures.

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The Mind Controller 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, professor emeritus A. Lee Fritschler takes a penetrating look at Florida Man’s attempt to turn public schools and universities into purveyors of propaganda to promote his political perspective. A snippet (emphasis added):

Conservatives are targeting public universities. Florida is leading the charge. Big government in the Sunshine State is led by a big-government Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. He decries big government but is eagerly willing to use the power of intervention when he finds a course or something on a syllabus with which he disagrees. His goal is to stop “wokeness.” His motto is, “Florida is where woke goes to die.” He views all classroom speech by faculty as something he and other politicians should control.

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All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

Sean Hannity says,

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Vaccine Nation 0

We are a society of stupider.

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Pressed Credentials 0

Donald Trump tries to escape from E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit by donning an implausible plastic shield.

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All the News that Fits 0

Florida Man.

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QOTD 0

Robert Dallek:

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

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Do You Find All the Scripts on Websites Annoying and Intrusive? 0

Then try w3m.

As far as I am concerned, it is easily the best text web browser.

It should be in your repos.

Oh, yeah.

You can’t do this on Windows. And probably not on Macs (I have no way of testing that, and don’t want one).

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Coming to America . . . . 0

International flight touches down in USA as pilot announces,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Emma and the crew discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Woke War III.

Aside:

She says she believes in freedom.

Just not in letting persons vote.

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It’s All about the Algorithm 0

Vultures representing social media sites sit on electric wire.  One says,

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The back story.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Decoding de Code 0

At The Seattle Times, Solomon D. Stevens decodes the code word, “woke.”

The word woke has no clear meaning, but to those who use it to condemn others, that doesn’t matter, because the word is just a way of announcing one’s membership in a kind of club or gang.

It is a culture war badge.

Follow the link for context.

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It’s Celebration Time, Come On! 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier remarks on how one celebrant observed President’s Day. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the complete piece.

While most Americans limit their Presidents Day celebrations to an earnest evaluation of whether it’s time for a new mattress, some have resolved to avoid holiday mattress sales altogether because they’re still embarrassed that they thought firm, plush, and pillow-top were the names of the Spice Girls. . . .

But most American are not Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman from Georgia, who celebrated Presidents Day by honoring her favorite president, Jefferson Davis.

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QOTD 0

John Locke:

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Today, I was running errands in my convertible. With the top down.

In February.

That is not–or at least didn’t used to be–normal in these parts.

Also, we haven’t had snow in at least four or five years.

When I was growing up about 40 miles north of where I type this, we usually had two or three snows a winter. True, they were seldom more than three or four inches (the biggest I remember was eight inches), but they were real white fluffy stuff falling from the sky in freezing weather.

Climate change is real and it’s now.

I fear we are well past the tipping point, and I fear for my grandchildren.

Addendum, the next morning:

Oh, yeah, and today we has to turn on the AC.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0

Bob Cesca and Buzz Burbank, in yesterday’s edition of The Bob Cesca Show, discussing Marjorie Taylor Greene and the New Secesh:

Cesca: Republican are the party of Lincoln, except for the things Lincoln believed in most.

Burbank: Repblicans are the party of Jesus, except for the things Jesus believed in most.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Yet another reminder that “social” media isn’t.

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