There’s a trope going around, lately (i.e.: since 2016) that goes something like:
Person A: says something critical of democrats
Person B: (rageflail) If you don’t support democrats you’re setting us up for another Trump, and you’re killing the planet! You’re probably a Bernie Bro!
Fascist boot-lickers seem to think they’re funny. But I just think they’re stupid.
I was clearing up some cutoffs in the shop, and noticed a couple of largeish pieces of bog oak in the pile.
It appears that the tabloids are finally starting to turn on Trump.
Well, I’m back to sort-of normal.
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 was 3 when Malcolm X was assassinated. Naturally, I don’t remember anything about it.
[Warning: Ronald Reagan, racism]
It’s been a sort of open question as to whether or not Ronald Reagan was really a racist, or perhaps just a soupçon racist.
I’m going to share some of my ruminations about what the US can/should do about mass shootings, because I can.
This is brilliant. It distills philosophical enquiry down to its essentials: fuck it.