In Memoriam

• Roy Dotricehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/obituaries/roy-dotrice-dead-veteran-actor-and-tony-winner.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-wellhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/obituaries/roy-dotrice-dead-veteran-actor-and-tony-winner.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well, actor.

Sima Wali, champion of Afghan women's rights

Mary Cochran, dancer.

Richard Wilbur, poet.

Secretaries of State Calling Their Presidents Names

Lance Mannion noting history of Secretaries of State. Current S of S used the term "moron" about Trump. 

Warning re:Politifact

"PolitiFact has been an invaluable resource for debunking politicians' misstatements and falsehoods."Politifact has been hacked from Washington Post article

Under ordinary circumstances, said Mursch, Coin Hive is used by some websites as an alternative to advertising. But in the case of PolitiFact, somebody has programmed the site to run multiple versions of Coin Hive simultaneously, basically bringing any visitor's computer to a processing halt.

(there were links to refutatons to "voter fraud" allegations.) twisted chick on dreamwidth notified readers.
WaPo dislikes ad blockers.

Body Mod Off the rails

Don't tattoo your eyeball.

Fascism is still evil.

Speech given by Trump to "Values Voters" Obama eulogy after massacre at church last year.

One of the sayings of my people is that solutions to problems which require time machines are not good solutions.  Corollary to that is anything requiring mass teleportation also is not a workable  or good solution.

Someone raised as a racist.

Yastreblyasky bitch-slaps Ross Douthat.  Because Clinton Derangement Syndrome apparently never dies.

Risk of cholera in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

In Memoriam

Tom Petty, musician
Anne Jeffreys, actress
Monty Hall, game show host (& co-creator)
Lady Lucan, not murdered
The 50+ people killed in Las Vegas

Some Things Shameful and Called Out

• Shameful. (Containing the video)

  "There is absolutely no place in our Air Force for racism - it's not who we are, nor will we tolerate it in any shape or fashion," said Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force Academy, saying the school strives to create a climate of dignity and respect for all. "Period. Those who don't understand that are behind the power curve and better catch up."

• Calling that out (video, Crooks and Liars)

I have to suspect that similar things went on in OCS in the 40s. And the '50s.

In Memoriam

Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine

Oh, Really?

• Mr. Kushner is easily confused.

According to a report in Wired Magazine, the voter registration form for Jared Corey Kushner held by the New York State Board of Elections lists Ivanka’s husband’s gender as “female.” The goof prompted Wired writer Ashley Feinberg to ask “Is Kushner a woman? Did he just accidentally fill out the form incorrectly? Is he the victim of a malicious voter impersonation scheme? Unfortunately, there's absolutely no way to know for sure, because he has yet to provide Wired with a comment. But based on his recent history with paperwork, option two seems like a pretty safe bet.”

Kali Holloway, AlterNet

The really important visitor to the UC Berkeley campus last weekend.  Too bad a meeting with this cat and the insignificant blabbermouth couldn't have been arranged.

Dot Connection (Video)

The Trump/Russia connection.

Post-Antibiotics

He found that without increased infection control measures, like regularly testing patients for pandemic resistance, and quarantining anyone who’s a carrier, CRE would be endemic—i.e. living full-time—at nearly every Orange County health care facility within a decade.

Wired, Megan Molteni

I was working oh, twenty years ago, tracking patients with resistant bacteria.

I've Mislaid The One Ring Again!

Via Zandar Versus The Stupid:  From The Hill:

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is facing criticism after his office revealed that four voicemails sent from a nursing home where eleven residents died in the aftermath Hurricane Irma were deleted.

Scott's office responded saying the four voicemails, which were all received during a 36-hour period before the first resident died, were handed off to the appropriate agency and then deleted.

Really, they want us dead.

In Memoriam

• Lillian Ross, writer & reporter
• Jake LaMotta, boxer
• Charles Owens, golfer
• Brenda Lewis, soprano
• Stanislav Petrov, helped avert nuclear war

They're Still Trying

The data problem.  (The Atlantic, Vann Newkirk)

They're Still Trying.

Senate GOP fast-tracks last-ditch ACA repeal

time to apply more heat. Fast.

Stepping on Schmucks

• And while I do not think that even Mr. Brooks is stupid enough to publicly cross swords with Mr. Coates again any time soon, in the black-and-white contrast between their reactions to the election of President Stupid you can see the fatal flaw in our media laid bare.
  
  Our media is in the hands of gatekeepers who are determined to abort any discussion about anything that threatens their privilege, their status as gatekeeper or the Both Sides Do It narrative that keeps their whole world propped up. And until that changes -- until talking openly about our real problems becomes something the media works hard to accomplish and not avoid -- nothing else will change.

  Driftglass, of course
  
• Yastreblyansky flicks some dandruff another conservative "pundit" from his shoulder for lying.

In Memoriam

Catherine Bond, mental health advocate.

Resolutely Ignorant

• He won't hear what he doesn't want to hear, Senator Scott. 
• From Raw Story:

  Donald Trump signed into law a Congressional resolution condemning white supremacists on Thursday, after lawmakers maneuvered the president into backing a text triggered by his equivocal response to racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
  Trump signed the resolution “rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups,” which was unanimously passed by Congress earlier in the week.
  
  The overwhelming passage of the text meant that Trump would have likely had any attempted presidential veto overturned.
  
  In a statement, Trump said he was “pleased to sign” the measure, adding that “as Americans, we condemn the recent violence in Charlottesville and oppose hatred, bigotry, and racism in all forms.”

• Oh, Facebook.  The Pro Publica report.  Making prostitutes look principled.  Big Bad Bald Bastard yelled at/about them for accepting a purchase of advertising from Russian "sources."  boing boing published Facebook's statement.  (In the extremely unlikely circumstance that a Facebook account has my name on it, it is, unequivocally a fake.)
  

In Memoriam

•  Len Wein, comic book writer
• Lotfi Zadeh, "fuzzy logic"
• Nancy Hatch Dupree, historian of Afghanistan
• Rick Stevens, singer (Tower of Power)
• ETA:  X Atencio, animator (and songwriter)

Schooled

The National Congress of American Indians kindly offered Steve Bannon a history lesson Monday after he blamed “leftists” for the notion that Native Americans were the first Americans.
The largest Native American advocacy group in the country said in a statement to TheWrap that indigenous people not only occupied the land that is now the United States of America long before Europeans, but also deserved much of the credit for the U.S. Constitution.
“‘America,’ a term Mr. Bannon uses to refer to the United States of America, owes its founding, its place, and its very survival to the original, Indigenous inhabitants of this land – the ‘First Americans,'” a spokeswoman for the organizations said. “America as a democratic society and government was modeled after the Great Law of Peace, the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy.”

Somebody had to do it.  If he graduated from a reputable university/college, the institution should be ashamed.