2018 archive
Recommended Reading 0
Robert van Gulik’s last book of the Judge Dee series, written shortly before his untimely death, Murder in Canton.
I’ve just started it and I’m already enraptured.
Profiles in Discourage 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that the recent New York Times column about Donald Trump by “Anonymous” does not mean what its author thinks it means. He takes issue with the implication that Anonymous and his fellow insurgents are somehow bravely standing between Donald Trump and catastrophe. A snippet (emphasis added):
The Con of “Colorblindness” 0
Thom explores how “colorblindness” is a cover for racism.
Blatherskate 2
In case you wonder what lies white Southerners tell to convince themselves and others that the Civil War was not about slavery and theft of labor based on race, you need look no further than this heaping mound of propaganda which for some fool reason a reputable newspaper has published.
How do I know that this is Southern propaganda?
Because it’s the sort of stuff I heard over and over when I was a young white Southerner growing up under Jim Crow. Most Southerners don’t want to admit, even to themselves, that their ancestors fought to preserve chattel slavery, even though every state that seceded cited preservation of slavery in its secession documents.
End Game 0
Steven M. advances a theory as to why so much excrement has impacted the ventilator this week. A snippet:
. . . as far as establishment Republicans are concerned, Trump’s work is done.
Follow the link for a lengthy explanation as to why he says that.
Afterthought:
I find that his argument sounds plausible, but I am skeptical. It assumes a degree of organization that does not seem manifest in the Trumpling.
I also wonder that any such thing as an “establishment Republican” remains in a Trumpled party.
