Happy Birthday, you grand fellow.
August 04, 2018
July 22, 2018
July 21, 2018
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Social Media
True stories took, on average, six times longer than falsehoods to reach at least 1,500 people.
The reason false information does better than the true stuff is simple, say the researchers. Things spread through social networks because they are appealing, not because they are true.
—On Twitter, falsehood spreads faster than truth, The Economist, March 10, 2018
July 20, 2018
Kidnapping Babies As State Policy One Week, Genuflecting before Putin the Next. Are We There Yet?
A good laugh:
With the exception of his Nazi association, Heidegger’s life was relatively uneventful.
—Martin Heidegger: The forgetfulness of Being,Times Literary Suplement, July 18, 2018
July 14, 2018
I Suggest Checking His Papers Very Very Carefully Before Letting Him Back Into The Country. Zero Tolerance
How do we know that the person we take to be "Donald Trump" isn't actually a trained impostor cleverly substituted for the original Trump by Russian agents during the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow back in 2013? Doesn't Ian Fleming demand this of us?
We should require DNA testing of the presumed president before letting "Donald Trump" return, just to be on the safe side.
July 06, 2018
Standards And Practices
I would append Dante to every comment deriding Trump and his Republican enablers I ever make now that I've run across it.
Tu stesso ti fai grosso
—Paradiso, Canto I, lines 88, 89, 90
col falso imaginar, sì che non vedi
ciò che vedresti se l'avessi scosso.
July 05, 2018
One Hundred Per Cent Outstanding
“I don’t believe them at all,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, according to pool reporter Todd J. Gillman of The Dallas Morning News. “I believe him.”
“Jim Jordan is one of the most outstanding people I’ve met since I’ve been in Washington,” Trump continued. “I believe him 100 percent. No question in my mind. I believe Jim Jordan 100 percent. He’s an outstanding man.”
Outstanding man, that Jordan.
July 01, 2018
The San Francisco Giants ballclub recorded its 45th victory today by completing a sweep of a three game series in Arizona against the division-leading Diamondbacks. The victory lifted the team to five games over .500 for the season.
Last year, in a season left unremarked if equanamity is to be preserved, the club reached its 45th victory on August 8, never reaching .500 the entire season long.
Presently the lads are five weeks ahead of last year's pace, suggesting that last year's result will be surpassed as well.
Play Ball!
June 30, 2018
June 29, 2018
Future Treatment
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the right to an abortion devolved to the states, leaving much of the country without reproductive services of any kind that could be linked to the practice of abortion, and a few more fortunate states where women's reproductive rights continued to be respected.
Thus a ramshackle network of drivers grew up to serve the needs of women who wished to take advantage of services that could only be acquired in an often distant juristiction.
The drivers found themselves targeted by a self-described Christianist militia centered in the Southern states, whose purpose was to distrupt, fatally if necessary, the journey of these women.
SYFY network, 13 episodes…
June 26, 2018
Original Intent
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
June 25, 2018
June 24, 2018
Organizing Principles
The question of whether all the children recently kidnapped from their parents by ICE at the border as a feature of the Trump Administration's zero tolerance policy will ever be properly returned does occur.
I mean, didn't people who run the sort of outfit ICE aspires to be discover long ago that tattooing the arm provides ineradicable indentification?
(A simple bar code on the back of the wrist in this age might easily attach to all manner of information about its bearer, given the ubiquity of bar code reader technology. A properly labelled child would be difficult to lose track of given such a scheme.)
June 22, 2018
June 16, 2018
June 14, 2018
June 01, 2018
Wait, What?
Pentagon officials said that over the next three years, the Defense Department will take responsibility for all background investigations involving its military and civilian employees and contractors. But according to a U.S. official, the White House is expected to soon give the department authority to conduct security reviews for nearly all other government agencies as well.
— Pentagon to take over security clearance checks, Associated Press, May 31, 2018
May 28, 2018
May 24, 2018
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We have the unearned distinction of living contemporaneously with Bob Dylan, an artist whose creations are of such magnitude that from here on out his corpus will live as long as that of Shakespeare. Who in Shakespeare's day suspected his stuff would be carried to the end of whatever English is? But we know now that Dylan's will.
Happy Birthday, maestro.
April 22, 2018
April 16, 2018
Sean Hannity And The Rule Of Three
Michael Cohen's attorneys have reluctantly revealed, when pressed by Judge Kimba Wood in Federal Court, that Michael Cohen's law practice extends to exactly three clients: Donald Trump, of course, Elliot Broidy, surprisingly, and, after a round of foot-dragging in court today, client number three.
So everyone knows the one about the Irishman, the rabbi and the Scotsman walking into a bar, or the Englishman, the priest and the zen master sharing a parachute, or the president, the adulterer and the broadcaster doing whatever the hell it was they were doing that made them clients of Cohen. The rule of three makes for solid jokes.
April 07, 2018
On A Happier Note
Newly added Andrew McCutchen had a career day at the plate for the San Francisco Giants this evening, going 6 for 7 with 10 total bases, four RBI's, 2 runs, and a game-ending 14th inning three-run walk-off home run. To beat the Dodgers.
April 04, 2018
This Post Is Hereby Retracted
Perhaps shipping containers full of human waste could be stacked along the southern border instead of parked in unlucky Alabama towns. Contributions in kind from all over the United States would eventually make possible as complete and repellant a barrier to entry as any nation state has ever assayed, and revive our nation's rail infrastructure to boot.
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