For reasons not understood, Amy Alkon declines to run a victory lap for recommending, nearly ten years ago, that her readers get their finances in order and then freeze their credit with all three credit reporting agencies.

The negligence evinced in this week's Equifax revelations is off the charts. They deserve prison and/or to have their offices shuttered. (As did OMB.)

Check your card balances and order new ones. And then....

Go to teh Google, and type in "Credit Freeze Texas", where Texas is the name of the state you live in. You'll find instruction for substantially protecting your financial future at minimal expense, perhaps for the cost of sending a letter.

Learn how this works.

Do all three agencies.

Thank Amy. Like this: Thanks, Amy.

OPM, not OMB.

Still: Freeze your credit.

It's the weekend, and if you're not in flight from a hurricane, you have nothing better to do.

He called himself "Carlos Danger."

Thoughtful instructions.

Meanwhile, in Britain, Cambridge University is considering letting its students sit exams using a computer or iPad, versus the centuries-long tradition of students writing their exams by hand.

The reason? Apparently, the students' handwriting is getting so damned bad that many exams are nearly illegible.

Cambridge University: Home of an elite without penmanship.

How to "win."

Dreamers

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/dreamers/

Oooh, that's nasty:

https://twitter.com/MMagazineComics/status/906236694491303936

The Gyrotisserie, it'll give time-traveling a delicious mesquite flavor.

https://twitter.com/Paul_S118/status/906223196097142784

Melting permafrost flows like lava:

https://twitter.com/Lhatseri/status/906175294649753600

To liberals, "Mother Nature" is a conscious being who willfully directs her fury at those who deny anthropogenic climate change. And liberals laugh at the notion of the "invisible friend" evangelists have in Jesus.

So, this has basically devolved into "My invisible friend can beat up your invisible friend."

Wrong link. Use This One.

Talking about Mother Earth

https://i.imgur.com/27wV7iE.jpg

Be amazed by Irma.

Re: Equifax.

Does anyone remember and Alice Cooper lyric that goes

♫ Cry your eyes OUT! ♬

IrmaCane narrative.

We may soon need a distinct repository for Amazing Irma links...

...And the usual stupidities.

Non-Irma:

Likeness.

Commemoration.

This website, apparently offered for Irma-ish situations where bandwidth is unreliable, is fantastic...

After nearly forty years, I'm into CNN again.

Fish

What do you think will happen if Burma becomes half muslim?

http://birdjaguar.blogspot.com/2017/09/buddhist-monk-on-burma-situation.html

> How to "win."

Trump is animated by wanting to be loved + being vindictive to those who cross him.

Is there a prize for that?

http://birdjaguar.blogspot.com/2017/09/is-there-prize-for-thatezert-biztosan.html

> Trump is animated by...

No, you needn't compose flowery teenage essays about his psychological "animations."

He's an unremarkable twat, selfish and incurious.

You elected him president.