I’m a sucker for electronic gadgets. Earlier this year I bought a handheld digital recorder for dictation. I bought it along on the trip to Brittany and had it with me yesterday at the Fete des Islandais. I was going to post these clips on Facebook, but it won’t let you post or link to audio clips. Boo hiss boo bad Meta bad. SSS Blog to the rescue! Here is […]
One of my consistently-Trumpiod friends from high school posted this on Facebook. There are two big lies here, one explicit and one implied. The explicit big lie is that this event was not reported by the “liberal mainstream media” – a favorite poor-me, oh-we’re-so-oppressed right-wing trope. A Google search that took me less than three seconds quickly reveals the lie, with three of the first four links being from the […]
My thought experiment is simpler. It doesn’t require understanding of quantum physics or the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. It requires only self-honesty and a moderate level of knowledge about our current politics.
In high school I took an advanced writing class, which required me to write a research paper of at least 10 double-spaced typewritten pages on a subject of my choosing (provided the instructor approved it). My paper was about the impact of nuclear power plants on aquatic life. The instructor required every factual statement in the paper to have a footnote identifying its source. Not only was this requirement a […]
I went off on a friend (by now, probably an ex-friend) on Facebook about her unreasonable, unbreakable support for Trump. I had made the argument that Trump’s actions and inaction increased deaths from Covid-19. In particular, I argued (see if there’s a flaw here, I don’t think so): The more widespread the Covid-19 virus becomes, the more people will catch it. The more people that catch Covid-19, the more people […]
Of all the falsehoods, half-truths, prevarications, distortions, misstatements, deceptions, … oh heck, let’s just call it what it is … of all the lies you’re going to hear during the Trump convention, this will be the biggest and most-repeated: that Trump took a poor Obama economy and turned it into a great Trump economy. Fact: On job creation, Obama beats Trump — Obama created 1.5 million more jobs in his […]
Suzie was starting to go stir crazy from being in the house in Kensington so long, as was I to a lesser extent, so we decided to go on a 4-day getaway. We were wanting to go someplace new, someplace not too far of a drive away, someplace warmer (it had been coolish in Kensington for about a week). We settled on Amador County, and found a very nice, cozy, […]
I have a question for Trumpers: Setting aside all political differences, don’t you think we should have a federal government that is competent? Shouldn’t we have a federal government capable of good management? What if the coronavirus had hit during the Obama years, and this was the graph of how well the Obama Administration had done in fighting it — would you still think everything was hunky-dory, or would you be screaming your lungs out?
Title 4, Section 8 of the United States Code — federal law — is titled "Respect for the Flag." Trump and his supporters make a big deal out of respect for what Trump calls "our GREAT AMERICAN FLAG" (no need to yell, lay off the Caps Lock button for God’s sake). Surely Trump supporters — who excoriate athletes who kneel during the national anthem to protest racism — wouldn’t do […]
Laugh-my-ass-off quote from Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale today in Politico: Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale played down concerns of a confrontation [at Trump’s upcoming Tulsa rally]. “I’ve been here since day one, and I found all Trump supporters to be really caring, loving people that care about this country,” he told Fox News. As to protesters who might come to Tulsa, Parscale said: The protesters, he argued, “want that […]