Saved comments for June 2020

[neonvincent]

My comment on Happy Birthday Mike Pence!

So, Mike Pence was born in 1959? That means he was born in the Year of the Earth Pig. That means he's a boar (and a bore). Oink!

My comment on Link round-up for 21 June 2020.

"If anyone who has been using the new interface knows how to fix the problem, please let me know."

I've been using the new Blogger interface for a month now and have been able to get the link breaks right, but I don't know if my method will work for you. I compose my entries in an offline editor (NoteTab Light), add in the HTML for line breaks [left pointed bracket br/ right pointed bracket] at the end of every line and again for every line in-between, then copy and paste the entry using the HTML option (the [left pointed bracket / right pointed bracket] icon above the space for the entry). That works for me.

If you're composing directly on Blogger's visual editor, then I recommend using shift-enter for the line breaks instead of just enter. Two of those gives me the right spacing. I hope these ideas help.

My question on Magic Monday for June 22, 2020.

You mentioned that you have some familiarity with Japanese occult practices, would you know about any specifically focused on gardens? I ask because I live in a house that used to be owned by a Japanese woman. She twisted the branches of two of the trees into knots, which creeped out my wife. After a year, we had both trees chopped down. While they were up, we had no problem with weeds. After they were cut down, the weeds ran wild. Both trees also sprouted from the roots and grew straight. Did we mess up some kind of nature working to restrain growth of unwanted plants?

My comment on June 2020 Open Post.

@Ben Johnson: “[T]here are no monuments to the British here.” Does the sculpture of Benedict Arnold’s boot count? It’s considered the only part of him patriotic to the U.S.
https://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/popup_arnoldsleg.html

My comment on TRUMP'S ATTITUDE TOWARD CORONAVIRUS TESTING EXPLAINS WHY HE WON'T POSTPONE THE ELECTION.

It's been 40 years since I read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," so the reference escaped me and I had to look it up. Lo and behold! When I did, one of the results was an image of the fictional creature with Trump's face at Green Mountain Daily's Trump the Bugblatter: some survival suggestions from two days before his inauguration. Thanks you for inducing me to find it!

My comment on Freepers Explain The Coronavirus For You.

They wanted an apocalypse that featured all of these instead: "the rural-urban disconnect, the fear of urban hordes ravaging the countryside, a lack of faith in progress, a not so subtle racism, and a desire to shoot their fellow Americans." Since they didn't get that, they're trying to make it happen.