*smh* at an otherwise quite competent writer who committed two wrongs in a recent work: consistently misusing “surly” when meaning “surEly” and failing to hire a competent proofreader (or editor). Apart from that consistent error, this particular piece is actually pretty good. Still. . . it’s little things like this that irk–sometimes more than major gaffs.
Plus ça change. . .
Strategizing my day.
Years ago, in my last 9-to-5 and spent a lot of time warming a seat in front of a computer, I used a one-cup coffee warmer because, while I needed coffee in copious amounts, I tended to be a “distracted drinker.” *heh*
Nowadays, that same effect has me drinking my last half of a mug cold. Switching to smaller mugs is fairly effective, though, and has cut down on my tendency to be distracted by computer time sinks from tasks I’ve assigned myself, since I reach the bottom of a cup more quickly and have to get up for a refill.
I Believe This View Has Some Merit
Note again: I do not like TRump and would not invite him for dinner or even want to be invited to dinner with him. I don’t need to like him to note that he has done more good for common Americans than the last three or four presidents combined. Hate to admit it, but still, facts are facts. The post linked below was written almost nine months ago. I just saw it the other day, and I’ve taken a couple of days to digest it.
“Everyone Is Smart, Except Donald Trump:” Rabbi Dov Fischer
Read the whole thing.
Baltimore *munches popcorn-sips beer*
Sequence:
Trump verbally “trashes” Baltimore.
Loony Left Moonbat heads explode in rage.
Video after video after video emerges of past comments (over just the last few years) from Loony Left politicians confirming Trump’s remarks and some going even further.
Loony Left Moonbats: “Unfair!”
Hivemind “reporting”: largely *crickets* or simply attempts to bolster Loony Left Moonbat outrage.
Reporter gathering “[homeless] man on the street” remarks to bolster the “unfairness” of Trump’s original comment has rat photobomb her “report.”
Meanwhile, wwhile politicians and governments are sitting on their hands and pointing fingers at one another (and isn’t THAT a pleasant picture? Ewww. . . ):
Trump supporter organizes Trash Cleanup Day to support Baltimore< /a>
Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind: *crickets*
Folks, entertainment just doesn’t get more amusingly farcical than this. *munches popcorn-sips beer*
Always Another Option. . .
My Lovely Wonder Woman has a way about her. . .
I mentioned to her that completing the repairs on a ceramic “canister” (ceramic can?!? *feh*) would take ~$11-$12, but that I’d end up with a lot of extra materials to store, possibly for future projects. . . or whatever. *heh* Her solution?
“Well, I could break more things.”
Another possibility? Just replace the thing, I suppose. *sigh* I hate not just repairing a broken item, but sometimes. . .
“Good Riddance. . . “
“. . . to bad rubbish,” as the saying goes.
It’s not schadenfreude to celebrate a very minor manifestation of the comeupance rightly deserved by evil behavior. As ye have sown, Bobby Boy. . . Kurt Schlichter rightly alludes to Robert Mueller with his “good riddance” tag. Shame on Bobby Boy. Shame, shame, shame.
When Is “Received Wisdom” Not So Wise?
Here’s a simple sample. “Received wisdom” is that someone walking, say in a forest or somewhere without readily-discernible reference marks, will tend to veer toward their dominant side, because the dominant side stride will be longer. My dominant side is right. But. My left leg is a wee tad more than an inch longer than my right side.
Yeh. In fact, I pretty much do NOT “walk in a circle.”
Choices, Choices. . .
Since I have used and really appreciated a Huskvarna machine in the past (OK, so it was my Wonder Woman’s super capable Huskvarna sewing machine, still. . . ), I am strongly leaning that way for my next chainsaw purchase, but for homeowner use, on a small lot, should the significant price differential between a Husky and, say, a Poulan be a factor in choosing between them? Keep in mind, I will likely also be using a chainsaw mill for much of my use of the new chainsaw (means replacing whatever crosscut chain comes with it with a ripping chain, of course).
This isn’t an immediate concern, since we are awaiting a place in the local reliable tree guy’s schedule to poll some trees and take down others.
Oh, and Stihl is right out of the running, since, though we actually have a local dealer, the prices for Stihls at the local dealer are even more than comparable Huskvarnas. *smh* Apparently one just cannot get the “street prices” HUskys are available for with a Stihl. (Or. . . maybe not. I just noticed the local dealer is having a sale through Fathers Day. . . Hmmm. . . Nah, the only ones at “reduced prices” are unsuitable for my needs.)
Also been needing a small chipper-shredder for a while, now. And then there’re the upgrades I need to make in my charcoal making process. . . and. . . and. . .
Looks like I’ll be too busy for a while to even think about shuffling off this mortal coil. ?
Why Stable Marriages Are More and More Rarely Depicted as Normative in the Media
An acquaintance’s recent comment about “stable marriages” recalled to mind a conversation with Son&Heir about the Decalogue and the differences between laws that are related to acts that are malum in se (wrong in and of themselves) and those that are merely about acts that are malum prohibitum (offenses ONLY because there is a law prohibiting the acts).
The Decalogue deals only with those things God defined as malum un se. After some discussion, we ended up classifying the prohibitions in the Decalogue into purely relating to God and those that governed relations between humans–number five “honor father & mother” probably leans toward only interpersonal relations. Of the five commandments (the last five “thou shalt nots”) that are clearly in the latter category forbidding murder, false witness, adultery, theft, and lusting after that which belongs to another, one can easily see where each of those acts either directly violates the rights of another person or, as in the last commandment, leads almost inexorably to such violation. Of course, each of these malum in se behaviors is deprecated by our society today. Murder? Abortion is celebrated by many. False witness? Heck, it’s become routine practice among large segments of _law enforcement_. Adultery? *smh* Normalized and even celebrated. Theft? Quotidian practice again for law enforcement (can anyone say “asset forfeiture” absent ANY conviction of a crime?). Envying the possession of others to a degree that qualifies to “lusting after that which belongs to others”? *cough* Bernie Sanders-Occassional Cortex-et al*cough*
It is no wonder at all, at all, that Hollyweird in general, the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, Academia Nut Fruitcake Bakeries, DC and most local and state governments militate against public display of the Decalogue.
“Stable marriages” are a slap in the face to a society that worships only self. Stable marriages require an honorable committment to one’s vows, freely given, integrity, among other virtues deprecated or openly derided, even rabidly attacked, by those committed to their polar opposites.
Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your path.”
Of all the systems devised by humans to deal with ethics and morality, Pragmatism, as a system is IMO, least dependent on emotions and biases, but Pragmatism fails at the point where incomplete, inaccurate human knowledge intersects with partial and faulty understanding of that incomplete and inaccurate knowledge. Other system that are more dependent on preconceptual biases (Pragmatism has some of its own, you know) and that either assume more knowledge than is available or are even more blind to their own misunderstandings are even less appealing that Pragmatism.
Unless one is both omniscient and infinitely wise, the best one can hope for is that one’s own understanding of circumstances and consequences is partial, and one is as likely as not, if one relies only on one’s own knowledge and understanding, to be quite wrong in predicting ultimate outcomes. Short-term outcomes? One might have a better chance, but relying on guidance from Someone who knows juuuuust might be a better idea, hmm?
Oh, for the record, I choose my guidance wrong far more often than I should. *sigh*