Scrivener's Error

At least they're human.

One of the fundamental tensions in American (and, arguably, Western) culture and law is the five-way tug-of-war amongst privacy, freedom of speech, intellectual property, distrust of monopolies, and access to information.

The Settlement Administrator has given claimants another extension.

It's that time of year again: All the quarterly and annual appointments piled up in a relatively short window.

On September 17, 1787, the United States of America was born with the signing of the Constitution.

How does one actually build something when the tool available is a hammer and there are no nails — not even any screws — in the inventory?

Unfortunately, there's no Virgil handy to guide us out afterward, either.

Some of these sausages are based on recent items; some… are not.

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed.

Badgers in the UK are demonstrating their commitment to public service by tearing up golf courses that — unlike parks and recreational areas accessible to the great unwashed — are being allowed to water their greens during the worst drought in England in a

There are babies involved in all of these link sausages, and really not in a cute way.

Taking a break from misanthropy today.

🦉

The first question on the mind of Bartz claimants is going to be "When will I get paid?"

Before diving in to any of the details regarding the actual meaning of "final approval" of the Settlement on 20 July, it's fairly important to revisit a couple of context items.

There's only one Canadian product that merits a punitive tariff: Wildfire smoke.

(Not cicadian, no bugs approved here.)

Fortunately, not all of these casualties have been fatalities.

Well, FIFA has once again moved ahead in the battle to be recognized as the most-corrupt sporting organization.

Fireworks are for those with the training, the appropriate equipment, and the appropriate location (and conditions).

So the Supreme Court issued a pile of decisions this morning, including one in which the only good part was intellectual honesty about being disingenuous (of which more in the future).

Two hundred fifty years ago — give or take a couple months, since it had to be sent by sail and not e-mail — a bunch of uppity colonials provided a convenient checklist of objections to their monarch, whom they accused of tyranny.

Burn sinners at the stake!

In the quadrennial (off-year!)

Beware the ingredient labels!

If we needed any proof that Major Major Major has no clue about being an officer and has been promoted well beyond any trivial evidence of competence — much like the origin of that name — it was clearly demonstrated with the graduation speech given at West

So the DNC commissioned a "post-mortem" on its failures in the 2024 election… that even aside from its other flaws (like actually providing/citing evidence) failed to consider whether the deceased had multiple terminal conditions, and most especially whet…

Almost no-one engages with the undercurrent: Isuzu was, in fact, selling not-so-great vehicles.

One of the memes put forth by ignorant narcissistic power-seekers — usually, but not always, from an extremist element (more often rightist than leftist) — is that their leader demonstrates that he's so much smarter than the inferior opposition by playing…

Not just to the news, either.

It's 04 May.† Fifty-six years ago today, ill-prepared and ill-led members of the Ohio National Guard fired on a group of protesters against the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four (including one quite some distance from the protest), overtly