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And yet again…
Sarah Taber, who describes herself as a small farmer, crop scientist, & ex-farm worker & crop scientist (and was a candidate for Agriculture Commissioner in North Carolina) wrote this on Mastodon. It’s worth a look. Mastodon, by the way, is a web-based tweeting system that works on the basis of lots of small, local or Continue reading
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And yet…
Reinhold Niebuhr was a widely known public intellectual in 20th Century America. He was a theologian who spent the bulk of his career as a professor at a seminary in Manhattan, NY. Did you know they had those there? Seems unexpected. Anyway, he had some fascinating ideas, including something called “Christian Realism.” I’m not sure Continue reading
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It’s over
More and more people, at least those who post the things they write, are realizing that the American experiment is over, done, and failed. This country is not a democracy any more, and it’s no longer organized according to the founders or the Constitution they wrote. The elderly, rich, white men who somehow got themselves Continue reading
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Future infamy
Funny thing happened in 1857. The US Supreme Court heard the case Dred Scott v. Sandford. Their ruling was that African Americans could never be considered citizens of the US, and that Congress could not prohibit the practice of slavery in the territories of the rapidly expanding United States. The decision was written by Roger Continue reading
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This pretty much sums it up
Amazing post on Reddit:“…whatever else there is to say, the most important thing about Donald Trump, the thing that is obvious from watching him speak for just 14 seconds, is that he is profoundly stupid. Whatever it is that he might be talking about or doing at any given moment, it’s clear that while he Continue reading
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Orange Gangster
The term “gangster empire” seems pretty apt. The orange baby has, throughout its adult life, functioned like a crime boss (or at least like what normal people understand a “crime boss” to be. Source material: Lucky Loser. “We have now entered a new phase of Western-led global savagery — prefigured by the genocide in Gaza Continue reading
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Dispatch from nerdland
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has just released (or re-released, sort of) the MS-DOS Editor that shipped in 1991 with MS-DOS 5.0. I used that version of MS-DOS, and remember it pretty fondly, even though by then I was mostly using Macs. And I even remember the editor, which in those days was just called Continue reading
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There is a FASCIST DICTATOR in the US now
This is not something to worry about maybe happening; it’s immediate and real. The orange baby actually was elected for real. Then handed a “can’t be prosecuted for anything” card by John Roberts’ court. Now it’s not going to allow any possibility (or election) to remove it from office, because that’s how fascist dictators operate. Continue reading
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Abuse of grace
Sarah McBride is a member of Congress, representing Delaware. She’s the first member of Congress to be openly transgender, and the highest level elected official in the US to be so as well. Earlier this week she had this to say as part of a conversation on Ezra Klein’s podcast: “On social media, we have Continue reading
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Just the latest version of nonsense
The Pessimists Archive posted an article about how modern refrigeration really started in the US in the late 1840s, when the inventor Dr. John Gorrie served ice to guests in the summer, in Florida. He got a patent on his new process a couple years later. But this was Florida, which has been…well, Florida…for a Continue reading
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