St. Bob's Basilica

Yet another online habitat of The Rev Dr Sherwood Forrester

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Bye bye, murderer.

So Wayne LaPierre has resigned as CEO of the NRA. Good riddance to a damn terrorist who'd rather see blood in the streets than see one violent asshole be denied an AK-47 and a thousand rounds of ammo.

The Second Amendment doesn't say "anything goes". It specifically references "a well-regulated militia".

"Well-regulated" says that if my neighbor buys a gun, he should have to undergo more stringent training, licensing, and insurance than he'd need for a car. It says that if he has a history of domestic violence or other violent crimes, he can *not* be trusted with a firearm.

It's sickening that my barber has to be licensed by the state in order to cut my hair, but any fucking idiot can buy a gun without anything more than the most cursory of checks and zero fucking training.

WELL-REGULATED. That's an integral part of the Second Amendment. Someone without training is not well-regulated. Someone with a history of violence is not well-regulated. It's not that fucking difficult.

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The Islamic Republic of Texas

Texas is basically Iran as run by extremist “christians” -- I genuinely don’t see any difference between them and the most extreme sharia-observing nations.

This is what the Republicans want to impose on everyone: apparently, they've decided The Handmaid's Tale was a how-to manual and not a warning.

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'Tis the season to go vote

Some time this week, probably today (Monday), I will go vote early, voting YES on Issue 1 (reproductive freedom) and YES on Issue 2 (marijuana legalization).

I was talking to a conservative (classical Ford/Eisenhower conservative, not modern sociopath MAGA loony) friend Friday, and she's also voting yes on both. Because classical conservatism means taking personal responsibility, not EVERYONE HAS TO DO WHAT I WANT!!1!

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An open letter to someone who will never read this

Wow, I pointed out the hole in your assumptions without rancor, insults, or name calling... and you replied privately (because you're clearly too much of a coward to do so publicly) with "I hope you die".

I think I know which one of us is happier, and which one desperately needs some therapy.

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Please tell me Randy Rainbow is on Tumblr

I vote your next song should be 'Mug Shot Thug' to the tune of 'Muskrat Love'.

[opendirectories]

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Aw, that's adorable! The 11/750 was the first computer I did serious coding on!

The kittens are cute, too. ;)

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This is ridiculously adorable, and I don't care who knows it.

[wilwheaton]

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Thank you my fellow Buckeyes! You know it's going to be a bad day for Republicans when there's a line at the polling station at 6:45 in the morning...

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Hypocrisy! It's what's for breakfast!

Well. Judging by the early returns, the message Ohioans have for the state GOP and their gerrymandered majority in the state house is, "Fuck you sideways and without lube." Just after they passed a law eliminating August elections, a Reproductive Rights ballot initiative was approved for the November election that they *knew* they were going to lose, so all of a sudden statehouse Republicans decided that August elections were keen and squeezed in Issue 1, to take away majority rule in Ohio by changing the threshold for a ballot initiative from simple majority to 60%.

Their cynical hypocrisy is currently going down in flames. Normally red counties are coming in as just barely Yes, just barely No (and in some cases Definitely No), and all ten of the largest counties are voting No by margins of around 60-85%. The only counties that are largely Yes are the tiniest ones, unlikely to make a difference.

Around they fucked, out they found.

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An open letter to Donald Trump

Grow the fuck up, you whiny-ass dickweed.

Sincerely, --Everyone with more than two functioning braincells.

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If we’re doing pet peeves, for the love of god please, stop using “anyways” instead of anyway.

Unless that character uses that dialect, obviously. But get this, most don’t!

I don’t care about your own personal dialect, it’s not as cute as you think, and it makes me backbutton instantly.

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Yeah, that one pings me as OOC a lot too.

[cleverthylacine]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/lets-talk-about-anyways

I get how you feel.  My personal pet peeve is “the both of them” for “the two of them” when used in dialogue for someone who is not Midwestern, because I never heard anyone say that before I lived in Ohio.

But anyways has been around since the 13th century, kinda like they/them pronouns.

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I am desperately torn between the knowledge that languages can, and should, and do evolve... and being a pedantic SOB who wants to see the language used "correctly".

I'm sure there's a middle ground somewhere, but Bob only knows where it is. I think I can settle for "okay, I won't complain about your abominable neologisms, but at least use proper spelling, punctuation, and capitalization."

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Lone Skum strikes again

In following with his long tradition of not actually doing anything, but just buying into other people's ideas and then forcing them out and taking the credit... is it just me, or does the new X logo for The Service Formerly Known As Twitter look like a minor tweak on the classic X Windows logo?

[reading-writing-revolution]

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Actually, you're probably more likely to find a virginal prostitute than a Republican who cares about the Constitution or working Americans...

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Fundamental

Why do I love Bach? Because he is to music what Newton is to physics, what Lavoisier and Mendeleev are to chemistry, what Darwin is to biology, what Shakespeare is to literature.

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Everything you need to know about "AI"

It's only artificial, there is zero intelligence. It's just easier to say than "really complicated Markov chainer".

[soberscientistlife]

Vote Blue

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Remember: voting isn't a right, it's a responsibility. And the more of you who get out there and say, "Fuck no, this is my country too!", the fewer MTGs and Ron DeSantises and Ted Cruzes there are.

Do you have any idea how close we got to dumping Lauren Boebert in 2022? For fuck's sake, voting works!

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A private commission by David A. Hardy, depicting a balcony on the planet Terminus from Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series.

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This is pretty much exactly the way I thought the view from Terminus would be. There is just not enough Foundation fanart (and I do NOT mean the recent miniseries) out there.