Categories
Browsers

It’s just a tool

I gather that Mozilla has named some marketing person as interim CEO as they search for a replacement who would be acceptableeffective. I don’t care, really. Mozilla is an organization that provides support for Firefox, a tool I use. I’m using Firefox because it is the browser that irritates me the least at this time. I […]

Categories
Stuff

The crap and cute day

My plan to post on Friday what I’m going to be writing about in the coming days has gone to the same place all plans go in the end…into the silent void where we hope no one remembers what we promised. But I do think Fridays deserve something special. After all, for most people, it’s […]

Categories
Just Shelley

Walker Evans: I am a Writer

I am not a Walker Evans expert, but from my recent readings about him, I sensed there were three significant events in his life that shaped the man, and subsequently, the photographs we’ve come to cherish. One of the events I briefly mentioned in the last Walker Evans writing, and that was his search for […]

Categories
Diversity

Corporate actions vs personal beliefs

2023 update: In 2023, I find I disagree with this, completely. I do think that corporations hiring known bigots reflects poorly on the corporation.   Earlier Second Update Andrew Sullivan in The Hounding of a Heretic: Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts […]

Categories
Government

The Affordable Care Act: Field tested in battle conditions

How can you tell if armor is any good? You field test it. You shoot stuff at it. You shoot a lot of stuff at it. Think Progress created a one-page timeline of GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act. After looking at the extraordinary degree the GOP went to undermine and/or kill the ACA, I came […]