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Friday, March 25, 2022

Welcome to the circus






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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.

Monday, March 21, 2022

‘I’ll Stand on the Side of Russia’: Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/technology/russia-supporters.html

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Sunday, March 20, 2022

How the Far Right Faction of the GOP is embracing the Russian invasion of the Ukraine

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-russian-disinformation-goes-from-the-kremlin-to-qanon-to-fox-news


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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.

Friday, March 18, 2022

Link between high cholesterol and heart disease 'inconsistent', new study finds

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-link-high-cholesterol-heart-disease.html

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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Curmudgeonly




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These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

1. "He had delusions of adequacy " Walter Kerr
2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."- Winston Churchill
3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow
4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response
11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here" - Stephen Bishop
12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson
15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating
16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard
26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed
27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdell
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Monstrosity

Mike Luckovich for March 15, 2022

Mike Luckovich Comic Strip for March                        15, 2022

 
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Monday, March 14, 2022

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

>>
>> Points of Enlightenment
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>>
>>
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>> Al McGuire
>>
>> "The only mystery in life is why
>> the kamikaze pilots wore helmets."
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>>
>>
>>
>> Albert Einstein
>>
>> "The difference between
>> stupidity and genius
>> is that genius has its limits."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ambrose Bierce
>>
>> "War is God's way of teaching
>> Americans geography."
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>>
>>
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>> Andy Borowitz
>>
>> "It would be nice to spend billions
>> on schools and roads, but right now
>>
>> that money is desperately needed
>> for political ads."
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ann Landers
>>
>> "At every party there are two kinds
>> of people those who want to go home
>> and those who don't. The trouble is,
>> they are usually married to each other."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ashleigh Brilliant
>>
>> "My opinions may have changed,
>> but not the fact that I'm right."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Benny Hill
>>
>> "Have you noticed that all the people in
>> favor of birth control are already born?"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Watterson
>>
>> "The surest sign that intelligent life
>> exists elsewhere in the universe is
>> that it has never tried to contact us."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Buddy Hackett
>>
>> "As a child my family's menu
>> consisted of two choices:
>> take it or leave it."
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Caroline Rhea
>>
>> "My favorite machine at the gym
>> is the vending machine."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Casey Stengel
>>
>> "All right everyone,
>> line up alphabetically
>> according to your height."
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Dave Barry
>>
>> "Never under any circumstances
>> take a sleeping pill and
>> a laxative on the same night."
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>>
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>>
>>
>> Benjamin Franklin
>>
>> "Trouble knocked at the door, but,
>> hearing laughter, hurried away."
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>> Edward Abbey
>>
>> "The duty of a patriot is to protect
>> his country from its government."
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>>
>>
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>> Emo Philips
>>
>> "How many people here have
>> telekinetic powers?
>> Raise my hand."
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>>
>> George Burns
>>
>> "If you live to be one hundred,
>> you've got it made.
>> Very few people die past that age."
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Burdened.



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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Shame!




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A NASA software engineer for more than 20 years (retired), Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for 25 years, former reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal. I favor open source development, Linux, network neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, among other things.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Putin & Friends

https://theweek.com/cartoons?utm_campaign=cartoon_newsletter_20220301&utm_source=cartoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=EC00810C762AB56EC3E80756621BFB88

Editorial Cartoon.

John Cole | Copyright 2022 Cagle Cartoons

Editorial Cartoon.

Chip Bok | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate

Political Cartoon.

Mike Luckovich | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate

Political Cartoon.

Nick Anderson | Copyright 2022 Andrews McMeel Syndication

Political Cartoon.

Steve Breen | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate

Editorial Cartoon.

John Deering | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate

Political Cartoon.

Clay Jones | Copyright 2022 Claytoonz.com

Political Cartoon.
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Steve Kelley | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate

Political Cartoon.

David Horsey | Copyright 2022 Tribune Content Agency


Editorial Cartoon.

Michael Ramirez | Copyright 2022 Creators Syndicate


Editorial Cartoon.

Joe Heller | Copyright 2022 Hellertoon.com

Political Cartoon.

Bill Bramhall | Copyright 2022 Tribune Content Agency--

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