I suppose I could have farted around with the font a bit to make it look pseudo-Greek, but if we just stick with Times New Roman, it might breeze right past, unnoticed.
I suppose I could have farted around with the font a bit to make it look pseudo-Greek, but if we just stick with Times New Roman, it might breeze right past, unnoticed.
The last month has been eye-opening, indeed. Already a non-fan of representative democracy, I’ve learned that I was insufficiently cynical – when you have a system that has been designed to be corrupt, it’s rife with holes to allow corruption; such a system cannot withstand adverse gamespersonship. It is built-in.
Are you tired of this stuff? I’m sick of it, personally. It’s depressing. I feel like I’ve been wandering around blissfully ignoring how horrible nearly half of my fellow citizens and neighbors happen to be. To be fair, since I live in deep “Trump country” it’s more than half. What’s wrong with these people? [I actually have a fairly good idea but we don’t have time or inclination to do a class analysis of American history]
How does this guy still have a career? And, for that matter, how is there still a New York Police Department?
My friend Michael, out in LA, is a photographer and photoshop genius, and he sent me this thing he put together the other day. Posted with his permission.
Seriously though, I am sending thoughts and prayers.
This is to help defray FTB’s legal debts from Richard Carrier’s defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below:
For those of you who think that 2020 is the worst year ever, consider the possibility that there is no bottom to how bad things can get.
When I started seeing stories about this, my immediate reaction is “someone’s lying.” That’s a given, because exaggerating things just a bit is built into every part of the fabric of US military procurement. As is secrecy, greed, and other bits of Lovecraftian evil. So, take everything here with a grain of salt because public information is mighty thin, right now.
Yesterday I published a posting that was substantially wrong. Ow! [stderr] But, it got me looking into the question of how cop departments pay off awards against them. It’s unsurprisingly murky, but there are stories that indicate how the delicate maneuvers are made.