March, 2019 archive
How To Deal with a Threatened Trumpling 0
Spocko offers a case study.
Twits on Twitter 0
PoliticalProf anticipates the purity twits.
Missing the Message 0
Jamelle Bouie visits the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which commemorates the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and suggests that it ignores context.
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, in case you still wonder why I’ve lost interest in college sports (emphasis in the original):
I think that the phrase, “intercollegiate business partners,” is quite telling.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Schoolyard Trumpling.
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The post threatened an ethnic cleansing in the form of a school shooting and told white students at CHS to stay home. The person who posted the threat claimed to be a Charlottesville student.
The message boards 4chan and 8chan have been frequented by white supremacists. The sites were banned in New Zealand in the wake of last week’s mosque shootings for hosting video of the massacre.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Stray politeness.
The NRA will likely argue that, had she been packing, this would not have happened.
Freedom of Screech 0
Ed at Gin and Tacos considers “deplatforming.” A snippet:
It’s worth the 30 seconds of your time that it will take to read the rest.