Author: Mark Alexander

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I Didn’t Say It. Literally.

Stolen in full from I Should Be Laughing:

Joe Biden, on Trump’s  betrayal of the American public over COVID-19:

“He knew how deadly it was. It was much more deadly than the flu. He knew and purposely played it down. Worse, he lied to the American people. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information. He knew how dangerous it was. And while this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed do his job on purpose! It was a life and death betrayal on the American people. His failure has not only cost lives, it has sent our economy in a tailspin. It cost millions more in American livelihoods. This is a recession created by Donald Trump’s negligence, and he’s unfit for this job as a consequence of it. How many schools aren’t open right now? How many kids are starting a new school year the same way they ended the last one, at home? How many parents feel abandoned and overwhelmed? How many frontline workers are exhausted and pushed to their limits? And how many families are missing loved ones at their dinner table tonight because of his failures? It’s beyond despicable. It’s a dereliction of duty, it’s a disgrace.”

He’s.A.Murderer.

Kayleigh McEnany, AKA Bullshit Barbie, White House Press Secretary, on Trump’s lies:

“The president never downplayed the virus. The president expressed calm… This president embodied the American spirit, that when we face a challenge, a crisis, a pandemic, we come together, we can be optimistic. We can be serious about it, we can take it seriously with our actions, which is exactly what this president does. It’s why we lead the world in testing. Doing far more than the number two, which is India. he took this seriously but he still expressed calm.”

Um, Kayleigh, you ignorant fuck, his voice is on tape saying he would play down the seriousness of the virus. You’re either fucking dumb, delusional, or a pandering asshat.

No, I take that back, you’re all three and more, because you probably knew the truth in January, too.


Paul Eaton, retired Major General of the Army, on Trump’s disdain for our military men and women:

“I am pretty unhappy with you, Mr. Trump… I’m going to keep this short for your famous short attention span. You have shown disrespect to the military on countless occasions … I am stunned that anybody in the United States military would consider you anything but a loser and a sucker. You’re no patriot.”

Well, I knew he wasn’t a patriot when he tried five times to get out of military service, and then had Daddy buy him a doctor’s excuse.

Jenna Karvunidis, credited with creating the “gender reveal party” on the fire started in California from a gender reveal fireworks display:

“Stop it. Stop having these stupid parties. For the love of God, stop burning things down to tell everyone about your kid’s penis. No one cares but you. It was 116 degrees in Pasadena yesterday and this tool thought it would be smart to light a fire about his kid’s dick. Toxic masculinity is men thinking they need to explode something because simply enjoying a baby party is for sissies. Oh, and of course I’m getting hate messages. Excuse me for having a cake for my family in 2008. Just because I’m the [gender reveal inventor] doesn’t mean I think people should burn down their communities.”

For the record, Karvunidis’ gender reveal method was a cake. And no one died, and no property was destroyed.

Donald Trump Jr., promoting his latest book that someone wrote for him, when asked why the Trump Administration hasn’t condemned the actions of that 17-year-old Kenosha murderer:

“We’re waiting for due process. We’re not jumping to a conclusion. If I put myself in [I won’t say his name], maybe I shouldn’t have been there. He’s a young kid. I don’t want 17-year-olds running around the street with AR-15s. Maybe I wouldn’t have put myself in that situation. Who knows? But we all do stupid things at 17. But we all have to let that process play out and let due process take its course.”

And when the host remarked that murdering people was a “little beyond stupid” Junior snapped:

“Really stupid—fine.” Murdering people is really stupid. Funny, I also thought it was against the law, but for Diaper Don, as long as white people are murdering the ‘right’ people, it’s okay, buy kinda dumb.

Fuck off.

Pete Buttigieg, on Trump’s comments about our fallen soldiers:

“When he was a young man, he faked a disability so he could avoid serving when it was his turn. We watched him refer to prisoners of war like John McCain as losers with our own eyes. If you are watching this at home, here’s how willing Donald Trump is to insult your intelligence. Today he denied he ever called John McCain a loser. Again, if you’re watching this at home, grab your phone, go on Google, you can see video of him doing it. You can see a tweet of him doing it. So, I think it’s pretty easy to figure out who to believe.”

Never Trump. Never ever Trump.

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Quote of the Day

In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.” ~ C.S. Lewis

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Quote of the Day

He doesn’t understand people’s bravery and courage because he’s never had any of his own.” ~ Senator Tammy Duckworth, Iraq War Veteran, responding to the Orange Russian Wig Stand’s claim that veterans who died in service of this country are “losers.”

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You Can Save America in 8 Hours

From John Pavlovitz:

 











 





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How Much Data?

Byte – one grain of rice

Kilobyte – one cup of rice

Megabyte – 8 bags of rice

Gigabyte – 3 container trucks

Terabyte – 2 container ships

Petabyte – covers Manhattan

Exabyte – covers the UK (3 times)

Zettabyte – fills the Pacific Ocean

(h/t to David Wellman at Myriad Genetics)

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Playlists…and My Failing Memory

Because the entertainment center on my MINI isn’t exactly cutting edge, playing music from my iPhone requires an expensive (and frankly, ridiculous) adapter that both supplies power and allows playback simultaneously. It wouldn’t be such a pain if Apple hadn’t—in their infinite wisdom, dictating how we should use our devices—gotten rid of the headphone jack a few years back. Power and signal were two separate cables that worked even in my old MINI.

The other option with this system is to play music through a USB stick. This is the method I’ve been using because it works and only requires copying the music files over from my Mac.

The one feature I haven’t been able to figure out until recently, however, was how to get my playlists from my Mac into the MINI. A bit of internet sleuthing and an inexpensive bit of software allowed me to export the iTunes (excuse me, Apple Music) playlists to that USB stick.

Problem was, they didn’t work. In fact, they weren’t even recognized by the MINI. It turns out it’s because the playlists are based on the file structure on my Mac—not the structure on the USB. Looking at the actual text embedded in the playlists revealed that undocumented fact, so I’ve spent the last several hours correcting paths on the stick to reflect where the actual files are located.*

My dance music playlists are by year, and while editing these playlist files, I discovered I have a lot (and I mean a lot) of the same songs listed in multiple years. Horror of horrors, but it should be an easy matter of sorting them out, right?

Not so fast. Back in the day I could create mix cassettes and organize the tunes by seasons. Now I’m having trouble remembering what year these tunes were in heavy rotation—never mind if it was summer or autumn.

The original mix cassettes that would’ve definitively nailed this down are long gone and the friends I lived through this period with are long dead, so I can’t reference either of them, so I’ve done what any normal, aging disco queen would do: I just left the lists as they were. I mean, does it really matter if Come Into My Heart/Baby Love was getting heavy play in 1978 or 1979? With so many other things going on in the world, this is the least of my concerns and I should just sit back and enjoy the tunes and the memories—even if I can’t attach them to a specific month and year any more.

*It should be noted I haven’t actually tested this yet, but I can’t imagine the problem being anything else.

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