Well, we've got a new day, new week and a new month to work with. One hopes it will be less depressingly stupid than the last couple, but one shouldn't get one's hopes up. There's been a mess of Dumb in the past 24 hours. First let's find our bearings. As of today, going on … Continue reading Monday, May 4, 2020
The Weekend: May 2-3
Because I initially forgot to include links to this week's News over at the Blogger site, I'm going to go ahead and do the links right now before I forget anything. Tuesday was all about aliens, either in games (yes, another XCOM: Chimera Squad plug) or visitors from another planet. I went off on a … Continue reading The Weekend: May 2-3
Friday, May 1, 2020
Well, we're seeing the start of a new month in this Brave New World where it seems like April lasted forever. Six weeks into the coronavirus novel epidemic that's sweeping the country and we're not really all that closer to a "solution", whatever that may be. A number of states are "reopening", like it or … Continue reading Friday, May 1, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
As noted in yesterday's Gibberish, I had some Actual Paying Work to knock out today. I had contemplated not doing a News today because of that, either swapping it with Thursday or just not doing it at all. However, today turned out to be worth talking about and since the APW is all over but … Continue reading Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
Man, we had us a goofy weekend to cap off an incredible goofy week. NASA released UFO photos, Justice Sam Alito basically telling us to screw off, and a temper-tantrum throwing Most Powerful Man in the World who spent the weekend rage tweeting about everything but the coronavirus as the death toll from that topped … Continue reading Monday, April 27, 2020
The Weekend: April 25-26, 2020
The dad-blamed internet keeps dropping in and out again. Started doing it yesterday afternoon. Maddening. Apart from the lack of good smoke, this is the worst aspect of living in the boonies. Yeah, I know, where's my benefit concert. We're wrapping up an incredibly dumbass week. The President of the United States of America, at … Continue reading The Weekend: April 25-26, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
People keep comparing the news of the day with dystopian fiction or that Trump's special brand of jibber-jabber has an Orwellian cast to it. That ain't so. For one, fiction has to have at least some sort of internal logic and make some kind of sense. Secondly, George Orwell had a much better ear for … Continue reading Friday, April 24, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The push-and-pull struggle between the "freedom means going back to work" crowd and, well, the rest of the country and most state and local governments continues unabated today. It's been kicked up to include freedom, liberty and, for some reason, the Second Amendment, all this despite medical officials and nurses almost begging people to not … Continue reading Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
I'm a little late getting out of the gate today. It's pushing 8 p.m. as I start this, but I had a helluva time getting started today. And as it's almost 30 minutes since I started writing this to this point right here, I'm obviously having a helluva time getting started still. I'm switched on … Continue reading Monday, April 20, 2020
The Weekend: April 18-19, 2020
It's been dumping rain all day. Off and on, there will be a deluge but it's been otherwise steady and the skies have been that dull silver grey a day of thunderstorms bring. We have not been able to take our constitutional and my buddy Otis, the Jack Russell, is not happy. However, best I … Continue reading The Weekend: April 18-19, 2020
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