Saturday, January 18, 2020

Facebook, be like, dumb

     Your faithful corespondent has always had a difficult relationship with Facebook simply because trying to get what is and is not allowed is trying to pick up a blob of mercury.
     So, since Facebook is playing a game of some sort this writer, and your friend, has decided to limit his links to this blog. If nothing else, your friend has control over what he writes and does not grant his purported creativity to a bunch of bots and tools in Silicon Valley.
     So here goes:
     Today was the annual Women's March in the United States during which a bunch of middle and upper class women express how oppressed they are and always have been despite what DeToqueville wrote 200 years ago. One hopes that the said slaves marching while wearing their pink knit caps (sometimes called Pussy Hats despite the fact that they are caps and not hats -- people are so stupid these days) they will remember this woman who does not want to have anything on her head:
   
Iran chess ref Shohreh Bayat fears returning home over hijab row - BBC News

     Not all actors are nuts:
   
Question Time: Laurence Fox on Meghan Markle racism debate | Daily Mail Online

     And finally, the United Methodist aren't so united any more:

     Liberal Methodists Toss Out the Africans | The American Conservative

     Let's get through the weekend with this:

     George Harrison's -- "The Pirate Song" - YouTube