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Election 2024
It's a Web Log not a Link Log, because some things on the Web don't really deserve links. Viz. Robert Reich's reaction to this news item: "The FBI is investigating the source of suspicious packages sent to election offices in 21 states." Long story short, he blames the victim of two attempted murders, ex-President Trump.
Well, that's just tacky. Granted, Reich's tolerance for tackiness is obviously well above average, but he ought to be intelligent enough to know what's too tacky and stupid and mean-spirited to say even in the routine of political mudslinging.
Does anyone seriously think Trump is doing it? Does anyone seriously doubt that, if Trump or Harris, or Kennedy for that matter, were inclined to commit murder, they could hire more competent hitmen than the ones who've come after Trump? They're professional politicians, which is to say professional extroverts. They're not burdened by sensitive individual consciences. But they are playing a game they can't win by cheating as obviously as hiring murderers. I don't think they're very likely suspects.
Ignorant people, the type who have not adopted "redneck chic" as a style but have always been what most Southerners mean when we say "rednecks," might be stupid enough to have done some of it. They're not usually intelligent enough to figure out how to build a bomb, but you never know.
My guess would be the people who want the D Party to remain the Party of Censorship. Un-American, often actual foreigners, but not the immigrant laborers Trump likes to denigrate. People who come in as exchange students, teachers, and professionals, who aren't really what they appear to be, and their US-born counterparts. People who really want Mean Girl and the mean-girl politics of censorship and "social credit scores" she represents to destroy American Democracy. It's in their interests to bomb and threaten to bomb election offices.
Moving right along, here's another news item that represents my idea of legitimate, respectable political mudslinging:
Who votes for Tackypants? The IRS employees' own private and peculiar labor union, that's who. Now that ought to get out some votes against her.
English Usage
Michael Moore documented last summer that the separating-words-to-indicate-emphasis thing is not confined to Southern Ladies. Scroll down to the statement, which may be true for Detroit, "WE. ARE. THE. MAJORITY." The rest of his post? Ds may appreciate the guide to polite, ethical electioneering, and Rs may want to know the opposition's game plan--well, the printable one anyway.
Glyphosate Awareness
"Pesticides" generally, more carcinogenic than cigarettes? No surprise there. Now watch the chemical companies whine that a study of "pesticides" generally tells us nothing about what to ban. What about all sprayable forms of anything, outdoors, with exceptions for water and alcohol. (But not vinegar, because when people spray vinegar widely rather than splashing a bit on a target plant, it acidifies the soil and harms most crops, other than blueberries. Vinegar, the farmers have to apply by hand.)
This study isn't about spray poisons. It's about what some mad scientists imagine God will allow them to use instead. Just call them Hubris-R-Us. Sustainable agriculture has to get back to basics: more manual labor, more natural methods, fewer and healthier babies.
Religious Persecution
Start with the fact that cell phones are obsolete in any case; modern people use e-mail. Add the fact that Amish people are not modern, and never adopted even land phones. But the real crime here is that when these Amish families crossed the Canadian border, legally and peaceably, to visit their Amish relatives in the US, they were not warned that not using a cell phone app was going to cost them money; they were just told to "download the Arrive Can app." Download to what?
Justin Trudeau ought to have to pay every penny he's demanding these Amish people pay, seven times over.
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