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I have always enjoyed having comments on this blog. A few years ago I got a few that made me decide to enable moderation. This means I get to read the comment and click ‘approve’ before the comment shows up up on the blog.

Of late, I find that I’m seeing a bit more name-calling and stridency in comments. I’ve had to start trashing some.

I don’t like that at all. I prefer to think that my readers are passionate about their thoughts but also mature enough to temper said thoughts to promulgate their ideas without flinging feces all over each other.

I appreciate all my readers and I appreciate that you take time to make your thoughts part of this little pothole in the informaiton highway. That said, lets dial it back a bit. You know who you are.

The Name Game

The Name Game #377

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It was in the mid-seventies at 0830 when I walked out to get the paper.  that’s a bit warmer than the historic norm, but it’s not eighty-something, so I won’t be picky.  We’ll see the mid-eighties this afternoon.

Opened the paper past the articles about the scramble for qualified workers for the expanding industries hereabouts and got to the birth announcements.  This week we have a report from the little hospital on this side of the river.  They give us thirty-one births from between September 1 and September 30.  Out of those, nineteen are born to unwed parents and three of the new mommies don’t have a clue as to who to tag as the baby-daddy.  Hillary’s ‘village’ will be raising these.  With my tax dollars.

Let us sally forth, shall we?

Hollye(!) B. & Mark C. got frightened by ‘cks’, so they tag their son with Jax Joseph.

Miss Arielle C. thinks ‘special ‘ spelling and capital letters will make up for an absent daddy, so we meet little MaKenna Chayce.

Kaliegh(!) F. & Christian R. give their son a stripper name, Blayze Adam.

The first apostrophe shows up as Alidia(!) D. & Skylar D. (different surnames) present their little girl, Ak’ela Nicole.  Note that these people are not adherents to the “Capitalize the first letter after the goofy-assed apostrophe” rule.

Samantha O. & Ashland M. give their son a manly name, Remington Daniel.  I’m expecting to see a sister, ‘Lorcin’, soon.

Taranisha(!) G. & Jaleel(!) B. apostrophicate their daughter, little Nevaeh Mi’yelle.

And the last apostrophe of the week shows up as Selina R. & Toshiro(! – I’m betting he can’t point Japan out on a map) W. tag their daughter with Taliyah Monae’.

And with that, I bid you adieu until next week.

History

Today in History – October 12

1492 – Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia. He finds the native people living harmoniously with nature while engaging in quaint and enlightened practices like slavery and human sacrifice.

1773 – America’s first insane asylum opens for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia. Today the name has been changed to the “Democrat National Committee”.

1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. Oh really? You mean there has to be a reason for people to get together and sing and drink beer?

1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House. That stops all the silly talk about painting it mauve or yellow…

1924 – Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow. Now moved to the USA and renamed “NPR”.

1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston. Most commonly associated with helping polio victims breathe, the iron lung was a specter of childhood disease until polio vaccines essentially eradicated the threat. Now most people either know nothing of the term, or don’t know what it means.

1973 – In the Yom Kippur War Israeli counter offensive pushes the Syrian army completely out of the Golan Heights and backward into southern Syria. Soon the Israelis are in artillery range of the Syrian capital.