October, 2018 archive
VB City Council Candidate Forum 0
My friend Andrew Jackson tells me that there will a Virginia Beach City Council candidate forum–likely the last one of this election season–on Thursday, October 25, at 6:30 p. m. at the Morning Star Baptist Church, 4780 First Court Road, Virginia Beach.
There is no URL that I can point you to, but I plan to be there (heck, for all practical purposes, it’s just around the corner for me). You can be there too.
Aside:
After that, I should be able to finish my PVF Endorsements, over there (——>) on the sidebar.
I don’t expect to have an endorsement for every contest, but I’ll do the best I can.
War of Words 0
Ravi Chandra explores the similarities between the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Trumpettes to classic authoritarian propaganda. After pointing out that it’s common to try to gin up the base before an election, Chandra notes that
Follow the link for the rest, including specific examples.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Test Case Dept. 0
Thom looks back at the history of the Republican voter fraud scam.
Mobbed Up 0
Aside:
I think it noteworthy that, when Trump holds public events, those event are almost always only for his supporters.
Image via Job’s Anger.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
In the NRA’s Garden of Eden, politeness is a family value.
Arms Race 0
In a timely piece Psychology Today Blogs, Art Markman examines the current state of research into the extent to which race affects police shootings of unarmed suspects.
The five minutes it will take you to read it is well worth the expenditure. Some of the findings may surprise you, especially as regards information received from police dispatchers.
Election Daze 0
My local rag has a round-up of the candidates for the Virginia Beach School Board.
Read it, then pick your favorite in each race. Election Day is two weeks away.
Facebook Frolics 0
What was I saying earlier about “gullible” and about “if you see it on ‘social’ media, check it out first”?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 4
Politeness is a family affair.
The sibling found a gun under the seat of the car and shot the girl in the head.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
(Had there been two guns under that seat, perhaps she could have returned fire in self-defense.)
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen adds another troll to the roll of trolls.
Aside:
The trolling would not have had a significant impact if too many Americans were not so uninformed (or, in the case of Fox News disciples, misinformed) nor so gullible.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin, the voice of Gervase Fen:
You think it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie. Only, sooner or later, they wake up of their own
accord . . . .
Crispin, Edmund (pen name of Bruce Montgomery), “The Drowning of Edgar Foley”
in Beware of the Trains (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 34.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More responsible gun owners.
Two people in the Omaha metro area accidentally shot themselves Saturday.
One was old. One was young. Both have only themselves to blame.
Details at the link.
