In my recent posting about Glamour Bees[stderr], I mentioned that it’s a good idea to plan for what happens if your free photo hosting service decides to change their business model, as photobucket did. Astute Commentariat(tm) member Jenna K. pointed out that I appear prescient.
All those histories of this country centered on the Founding Fathers and the Presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the ordinary citizen to act.
A friend of mine asked me “does it really matter if I vote?”
Time for your periodic dose of Jay Smooth.
It is time for Argument Clinic to tackle one of the most important topics in argumentation today: how to deal with a hypocrite.
Is this the right room for an argument
What, another hurricane menacing the coast?
However cynical we may be about government, it’s hard to match the cynicism inside government. But, when I think about history, I remind myself that the really enthusiastic governments were also the most dangerous. When I started doing stuff at the White House it was exciting and glamorous for a little while.
Darn this tinfoil chin-strap, it’s hard to keep everything in position. Okay, I think I’ve got it. Ready?
Don’t you wonder what kind of bolt-holes the wealthy and powerful are building, now, against the new crop of threats? Other than the ridiculous “let’s colonize Mars with rich white people!” meme, they have to know the global warming hammer is going to drop soon and the die-back and displacement is going to be violent. They’ll want a “mineshaft gap.”
Fake news. So what? Doesn’t everyone realize that all news is fake to some degree or another? Yet, we are supposed to get excited about it, because it is the reigning popular explanation for the spectacular failure of the American political system.