Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Joust the Facts, Ma’am 0
University of Connecticut Professor Keith M. Bellizzi explores why persons are impervious to facts, with a focus on facts vs. political positions. Here’s a bit from the opening of his piece:
Your worldview, including beliefs and opinions, starts to form during childhood as you’re socialized within a particular cultural context. It gets reinforced over time by the social groups you keep, the media you consume, even how your brain functions. It influences how you think of yourself and how you interact with the world.
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position.
I commend his article to your attention. It helps explain dis coarse discourse.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” (sic) asserts that “negligent” and “accidental” are synonyms.
Look them up. They are not.
We are a society of stupid.
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.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Isaac Bailey remarks on the irony of Republicans’ outrage over Donald Trump’s having been served with a legal warrant at Mar-a-Largo. A snippet:
Facebook Frolics 0
The lede from the report speaks for itself.
Per the story, a warrant was involved.
Remember, the internet is a public place, even those parts of it that would have you think are private.
And “social” media isn’t.
Doing It the Old Fashioned Way 0
I have learned that, as phone companies have increasingly yielded to customer pressure to become more vigilant in blocking car warranty scammers, the scammers have taken to the mails.
Yesterday, I received a letter from a company I’ve never heard of (“Endurance”) warning me that the “extended service plan” that I never purchased was about to expire . . . .
Be forewarned.
(Gramatikal error correxted.)
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks used to think Trump followers were stupid. He longer believes that. Now Mangy has recognized that many are not only stupid, but would-be fascists as well. Their willingness to set aside the basic tenets of democracy, their willingness to throw out an election, their desire to co-opt the military in support of their fascist goals, and their willingness to plan violence against their fellow Americans in order to have their way show these folks are by no means patriots, small ‘d’ democrats or even REAL Americans.