A few potential topics:
- Costa Pleicones elected S.C. Supreme Court chief justice — That development sort of snuck up on me. I knew it was his turn and all; I just hadn’t realized they were voting on it so soon…
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U.S.: Indictments are just the start of FIFA scrutiny — Hey, who around here cares? Let me know when they go after American football. And speaking of the world of sports…
- Clemson’s Swinney cancels appearance with anti-gay marriage organization — I was surprised to see that the coach was surprised at the controversy. It seems that sports figures can be as ignorant of politics as I am about sports.
- Nebraska Lawmakers Pass Bill Abolishing State’s Death Penalty — Not something that happens every day. At least not around here.
Or, whatever y’all want to talk about…
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Just when you think every last shred of common sense has disappeared in this increasingly, and disturbingly, conservative nation we have something positive happen. Three cheers for Nebraska taking the sensible step of abolishing the cruel and unusual practice of capital punishment.
I’m with you there, Bud. And did you notice this is a majority-Republican legislature?
This release came in from the Palmetto Family Council:
Pleicones will make a great CJ. Good for him.
Oh, and as part of FIFA’s punishment, they should be required to call it soccer, not football. From here on out, it’s FISA.
Isn’t FISA already taken?
I think that’s the joke
Good for Sweeney.The Palmetto Family Council is a hate group.Most thinking people know that.
I wonder if we are going to see the same swing against the death penalty that we have seen toward same-sex marriage. It’s a fascinating time to be alive. While politics seems to be moving more to the extremes, the population in general seems to be coming together on a number of issues that were once far more controversial. The arc of the nation seems to be a progressive one.
I sure hope so.Obama is too far to the right for me…
https://www.change.org/p/dabo-swinney-withdraw-from-the-june-2-fundraiser-for-the-palmetto-family-council?recruiter=1992234&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive
Norm, for a generation at least, the definitions of “right” and “left” have made little sense. People are complicated, and this ridiculous dichotomy that we try to use to explain EVERYTHING doesn’t describe reality very well.
That’s one of my beefs with parties. People have to lie to themselves, or just be irrational, to really embrace every tenet of a party and always agree with it. So it drives me nuts to see people do that.
In any case, you’re pointing to instances of people departing from the either-or mold, and whatever the issue, whatever their position, that’s a good thing.
Now, if only media will notice, maybe we can start writing and speaking about politics in more reasonable, nuanced ways…
Google Adsense is doing something new.
In composing this post, I noticed an extra space crop up between items 2 and 3. I couldn’t make it go away. I went into the HTML and kept trying to delete what looked like extra spaces between them, and then came back out — and the space was still there. And I went back into HTML and the CODE for the spacing was there as well, the stuff I had just deleted.
Then, I look at the post in its public form here — and there’s an ad there.
Weird…
I’m at work, so whatever is supposed to display there is blocked, but I was able to click on it and wound up at randpaul.com.
It’s a google ad. Completely annoying. Not even newspapers interrupted content to shuck ads inside stories.
A reader can delete the ad, but a weird space remains.
It’s different for everybody. At the moment I’m getting an ad for jewelry — the image is a diamond ring. Don’t know why. I’m not in the market for jewelry, and I haven’t done any searches for jewelry…
Those Google ads exist on a cusp. They’re mildly irritating, but not much — at least not to me. If they were REALLY irritating, I’d get rid of them, because they pay me such a tiny amount. They send me a hundred bucks or so every three or four months.
It’s pathetic. At the same time, given a choice between somebody sending me a hundred bucks every three or four months and someone NOT doing so, I choose the former, since I don’t have to do anything to get it.
In fact, I’m FORBIDDEN to do anything. I can’t even click on them out of curiosity, or urge y’all to do so. If I did, they’d yank them, and those little occasional windfalls would stop coming…
Maybe you could try a GoFundMe page and see if you make more from voluntary contributions…
The ads inside your posts just seem wrong. I know it’s a google thing, but it was a bad idea on their part.
You know what I hate? The ones that get inserted right before the last line of a column. Which means people probably don’t even see the last thing I said….
Back before there was a ‘web’ and newspapers still reigned, I thought several times about putting an ad in the local Greenville News simply saying “Send me $100 cash. I’m not in need but I’d like more money. In return, I will send every donor a hand-written thank you letter.” And I would have followed through on that generous promise. I figured I might augment my long-off (at that time) state retirement.
Never did it. Figured someone would think it was a scam and put the cops on me. Or worse, I’d be flooded with cash…have to spend all night writing the letters…and worry about the tax implications.
I don’t think there’s anything actionable as long as you send the letters. Definitely taxable income, though.