Trenchant Thoughts #3

  • Apparently now if you say “All lives matter”, then you are a racist. Huh?
  • Identity politics is so insidiously wrong. Treating people as groups is hopelessly hateful. No group of people are homogenous. The better way is to treat everyone as an individual, as a minority of one. Everyone — everyone — is different.
  • Pursuant to that, this set of pictures is meaningless to me. I don’t care what color your skin is or what you have in your pants; I just care how you will vote.
  • It’s never appropriate to refer to the President of the United States as a “motherfucker”, no matter who the President is. Doing so is rude, disrespectful to one’s fellow citizens, and says way more about you than it does about your intended target.
  • I hope that this isn’t true, but if it is, I hope that justice is served. Some thoughts:
    • It’s very difficult in my mind to make a case for murder in a combat zone. That said, it doesn’t sound good, but of course, Chief Gallagher is innocent until proven guilt.
    • In my experience, and I have more than you might think, the NCIS — despite what you see on TV — is half a notch above the Keystone Cops.
  • I have to admit, I don’t follow the Mueller investigation to much. But I do know that I’m sick of hearing about it.
  • I just installed PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and it works a treat. Took a little tweaking to get the settings right in my router, but now I don’t see ads and am protected from a lot of malware. I actually don’t mind ads. I don’t mind good content providers making a little cash, and most ads are things that I’m interested in. I’m going to investigate ways to have ads get through but still protect against malware.