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Tribune Publishing sharpens the ax
In a country designed upon a four-legged chair, removing one of them (the Fourth Estate) will not increase stability. Maybe everybody-as-journalist will work out somehow? Tw— October 5, 2015 8:15 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
" Don Bauder Oct. 3, 2015 @ 7:17 p.m. Twister: I think that is generally true of people who are disabled. Providing doorways and bathrooms accessible to them does not make them less independent. Best, Don Bauder" When I (we?) were kids, disabled people didn't need no stinkin' badges--everybody gave 'em a hand in as inconspicuous and non-patronizing way possible. And they didn't need no stinkin' LAWS to MAKE them do what's right. Tw— October 5, 2015 8:13 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
This is the brainstorming stage of the process. We pile up all possible relevant alternatives after which we sift through them, debating the merits and demerits of each. "To illustrate a point," said Bagehout, "one must omit much and exaggerate much." You are exactly right, of course, that cherry-picking is the very mother's milk of polemics. Hence the simple rules of debate, no? Tw— October 5, 2015 7:56 p.m.
State coastal commission bonkers?
Odd that anyone believes or ever believed that nuclear waste could be safely stored anywhere. Homo sap. is like any other mass murderer--after he gets rid of all the other species, he will turn the gun on himself. Tw— October 5, 2015 7:41 p.m.
This county is lousy for the disabled
The issue before us is how to make innocent people, especially children, safer from the predations of others without restricting the freedoms of the innocent. If we are going to logically examine all the relevant aspects of this subject, we will need facts that bear upon the question. We certainly should not cherry-pick our facts, and we should address all of the relevant comments, including speculations (judgment presumed to be restricted until facts become available). Once we have committed ourselves to such a discussion, we should not quit when the going gets rough (e.g., when our biases are not holding up). “Straw-man” arguments and other fallacies, digressions, and diversionary tactics should not be used. Replies should be honestly responsive and to the point. Conduct should be of the mature kind rather than the kind of play-pen political manipulation that is commonly practiced by politicians and pundits. The case at hand is, shall we say, school and workplace and other “soft target” shootings? The all-too-typical scenario takes place in a place that is easily “penetrated” where the potential victims will be particularly vulnerable. Shall we begin by listing as many relevant facts and factors as we can think of at the moment, with each participant adding and editing at will, with the consent of the ungoverned? I’ll throw out a few, just to get the ball rolling. 1. Make soft targets more difficult or as impossible as possible to penetrate. 2. Have guards. 3. Enact “common-sense” gun laws. 4. Expand gun-free zones. 5. Have everybody “open-carry” who wants to. 6. Train on-site people in weapons tactics and have professional law-enforcement people design site facilities and procedures. 7. Lock up everyone who fits the profile of a nutcase. Once we have a fairly complete list, shall we then proceed to discuss the pros and cons of each until we have reached some kind of consensus? Shall we file a majority report and include minority reports? Respectfully submitted, Tw— October 5, 2015 5:36 p.m.
Biotechs belted
The correct form of expression is “the other animals, but I, too, often catch myself making this error. Tw— October 5, 2015 4:43 p.m.
Rocky for president in 2016?
May safely assume that you don't make idle threats? Tw— October 5, 2015 8:15 a.m.
Loretta Lynch, former president of P.U.C., says it is a “corrupt, co-opted agency
I suspect that a Master's would be a demotion for CaptD, who seems to have it nailed. I honestly don't know what a hashtag is. Martin also has it nailed. As long as there is a cap on expenditures for propaganda and "executives." And other ways of money-laundering. They don't call them No Good Organizations for nothin'. More good reasons for looking into the Mondragon concept. Tw— October 5, 2015 8:08 a.m.
Rocky for president in 2016?
It's one thing when a "definition" shifts in a "living" language lock, stock, and barrel, and quite another when a word is so scattered by misuse that all powers of discrimination and discipline are lost. "It means what I say it means" is an open door to such a pile of babble that misunderstandings become increasingly likely. Tw— October 4, 2015 9:23 p.m.
Another echo from the dot-com bubble burst
A whole discipline called anthropology is dedicated to understanding the differences between cultures, and linguistics is dedicated to understanding language, with semantics and phonetics attempting to tease out subtleties of meanings. A hilarious book could be written or compiled on the odd contrasts discovered therein. If only "administrations," so stupidly obsessed with their supposed omniscience that they refuse to pay any attention to those and other disciplines when it comes to dealing with other cultures and complex professional matters, places like the "Middle East" would not be falling apart, we would not be ineptly squandering billions on impotent “measures” to deal with wildland fires, and our own culture would not be coming apart at the seams. Our culture is suffering the same fate as our neighbor to the south, were drug kingpins murderously rule in open contempt for the social mores that have been the glue that has held that and other cultures together for so long. This is the Age of the MBA—dominance of the experts of nothing in particular. We have to re-learn disciplined thinking.— October 4, 2015 5:58 p.m.