2018 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron and Chauncey Devega discuss the overt racism of Donald Trump, his supporters, and his enablers.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:
The trouble was that I was sore. You can work when you’re sore, or eat or sleep or fight, but you can’t think straight.
Stout, Rex, “Blood Will Tell,” Trio for Blunt Instruments (New York: Bantam, 2002), p. 180
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses how racism and racist violence have ramped up in the last few years and suggests that the unifying force on the far right is hatred.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Practice random acts of politeness.
Leonard was watching football with friends when he heard a gunshot.
“I walked into the room and saw that he was hurt in the hand and was yelling and the girls were yelling,” Leonard explained.
Leonard said he found his best friend, Dustin Melton, and a teenage girl bleeding.
“What’s going on what’s going on?” Leonard added. “Then I saw that she had a gunshot wound and I got the phone to call 911.”
Leonard said Melton accidentally fired his gun.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ghost doesn’t stand a politeness of a chance. Or something.
Follow the link for more spectral speculation.
The Fired Next Time 0
Shaun Mullen prepares for the inferno infernal with a snack of milquetoast and a Graham cracker.
Laborers’ Day 0
Don Langrehr points out the irony in pretending to honor labor on Labor Day even as those who labor face persistent penury. A snippet:
Follow the link.
Now.
Monumental Lapses 0
Jon Broadway points out that those who defend Confederate monuments to secession and rebellion as representing “history” conveniently forget the history that they represent.
Follow the Money 0
Rachel comments on the carousel of confessions.
In the first portion of the video, she reads a portion of the transcript of the proceedings. If you listen to nothing else, listen to that for insight on what actually happens in court.