In my previous post, I tried to explore some of the problems of non-violence, namely the difficulty of dealing with a collective that is willing to harm you and is not concerned with your moral arguments why what they are doing is a bad thing. [stderr] At what point do you treat all of the individuals that make up your attackers’ forces (or even the attackers’ civilians) as targets?
It appears that the tabloids are finally starting to turn on Trump.
No, that wasn’t Sun Tzu, it’s attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte (it’s in his book of collected military maxims) – I don’t believe that was one of Bonaparte’s; it sounds more like Talleyrand, who had a great deal of experience at standing on the sidelines watching Bonaparte make mistakes.
I’m going to share some of my ruminations about what the US can/should do about mass shootings, because I can.
Quoted en bloc from Counterpunch [counterpunch] by Jeffrey StClair.
This is a sign I saw outside the grocery store where I usually get my stuff.
Fascists like to broadcast their intentions; it’s part of their “thing.”
It seems to me that, now that we are building a better idea of the effects of inheritance on a person, that humanity needs to somewhat re-assess how we treat offspring, in both positive and negative manner.
There’s a piece over at Daily Kos that repeats some of the Jesus-freaks’ statements on Trump.
Monday, I drove down to Baltimore to disassemble and re-wire my parents’ entertainment system. I swapped out a first-generation DVD player for a new little Sony blu-ray player with an HDMI connector, and that made the remaining problem one of plugging a couple of wires into the back of the flat panel. I was supposed to get there around lunchtime but I was an hour late because of America.