Friday, May 27, 2016
Long weekend plans
Relaxing and reading.
-- Mrs. Diddie is recuperating from having the rest of her left rear quarter panel replaced (her knee was switched out in January; her hip yesterday). Except for some post-operative high blood pressure which responded to medication, she's doing well this morning.
-- The best thing I have read about why the largest banks aren't being prosecuted is posted at ProPublica: they actually are, but the appeals courts are rescuing them. Just as appalling as it sounds.
-- Andrea Grimes speaks for me on the subject of public bathrooms.
-- Alzheimer's may be due to bacterial infections. An immune system response. That would completely change the thinking about how the disease might be treated -- or warded off, if you have a genetic dispensation (as I do).
-- From Wikileaks, this e-mail passed through Hillary Clinton's private server. Twice. Maybe 'gold', 'oil', and 'Qaddafi' were just code words for Chelsea's wedding. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-- Mrs. Diddie is recuperating from having the rest of her left rear quarter panel replaced (her knee was switched out in January; her hip yesterday). Except for some post-operative high blood pressure which responded to medication, she's doing well this morning.
-- The best thing I have read about why the largest banks aren't being prosecuted is posted at ProPublica: they actually are, but the appeals courts are rescuing them. Just as appalling as it sounds.
-- Andrea Grimes speaks for me on the subject of public bathrooms.
I’m more than a little creeped out about where the minds of men such as Paxton and Patrick seem to go when they think about public restrooms. There’s a certain predilection for prurience in drawing a straight line between “public restroom” and “opportunity to sexually assault a woman or child.” In the most disturbing example, U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert, the East Texas Republican, recently said in a radio interview that he’d have jumped at the chance to pretend to be transgender as a teenager in order to infiltrate the girls’ bathroom at his school.
When I think about public restrooms, I’m usually thinking about whether there’s going to be a functional soap dispenser or one of those fun Dyson hand dryers. I’m less likely to wonder if they will afford me an opportunity to commit a sex crime.
-- Alzheimer's may be due to bacterial infections. An immune system response. That would completely change the thinking about how the disease might be treated -- or warded off, if you have a genetic dispensation (as I do).
-- From Wikileaks, this e-mail passed through Hillary Clinton's private server. Twice. Maybe 'gold', 'oil', and 'Qaddafi' were just code words for Chelsea's wedding. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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