Autocomplete suggested that I title this “Rainy Saturday Morning.” I suspect that I wrote that sometime in the past, but I’m a little too lazy to go check. Maybe after I write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With football gone, I’ve been paying a bit more attention to news. This week’s been a doozy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Going kind of revers-follow order, what is going on in Moldova<\/a>? Just something I stumbled across looking at “Trending” on *glances over to see that WordPress is warning me about my colors being difficult to read. What? I’d be writing this in EMACS if there was a good way to do that, and only use your editor because it’s convenient. By the way, it’d be really helpful if there was a way to set to open new links in tabs so I don’t have to click on them twice. Kthxbai*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n But it looks like the Moldovans have been trying to integrate themselves into a modern Europe. You know, a place that respects the human rights as enumerated by Locke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But, like, see, my Uber drive once told me that there was this agreement between Gorbachev and Bush 41 saying after German reunification, there’d be no eastward advance of NATO. I mean, the guy who explained that there wasn’t genocide in either Cambodia or Bosnia<\/a> said it happened, so it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along those lines, also tailing the Steve Baker<\/a> and Catherine Herridge<\/a> stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether or not you appreciate their reporting, there’s absolutely a right to report whatever. And withhold your sources.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where you think those rights come from is entirely up to you. At one time, the enlightened world at least agreed on those rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, on the other hand, the only fundamental human right is to have a vote automatically tallied for you as being for one particular political party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I should fill out my absentee ballot, even though it’ll make absolutely no difference where I live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also have been following, from a distance, the stuff going on with the cases surrounding President Trump. Especially what’s going on in Fulton County, Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The merits of the case, as with most racketeering cases, seem very weak to me. I understand that Rudy Giuliani made a name for himself using similar Federal statutes against the New York Mafia families, but were things really better in New York because a bunch of well-dressed guys ended up slicing the garlic so thin you could see through it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Or was it because of other things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But back to Fani, I remember being a young dude working in broadcast, glancing at a young woman DJ who’d actually talk to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Don’t shit where you eat.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nTwitter<\/s>X. (The people really incensed about dead-naming never say anything when it’s done to a website; why is that?) Romania is a NATO and EU country. Moldova is the latter, and actually looks like it’d be a good fit for the former, so that means Russia should take it. Um.<\/p>\n\n\n\n