August, 2019 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to the children.
“Around 3:00 [Thursday], one of our teachers heard what she thought was a rock hit the window and saw broken glass,” Rev. Andy Oliver said.
That teacher quickly realized it wasn’t a rock, but a bullet that went into the preschool where 11 two-year-old kids were on hand.
Authorities have not determined whether the politeness was intentional of unintentional negligent.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of the byproducts of the Trumpling is that it has given bigots license to come out of the closet.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Gary Abernathy looks at Donald Trump and sees a creation of “reality” TV and cable news. Methinks his argument is worth a look.
A snippet:
On the entertainment side, television struck gold with “reality” programming, placing seemingly ordinary citizens in voyeuristic and titillating settings, asking viewers to cheer one contestant, jeer the other and cast their votes.
Out of this divisive and salacious swamp climbed the combative, shocking and polarizing Donald Trump, stepping onto a cultural stage constructed almost specifically for him.
Barefoot and in the Kitchen 0
Thom looks at the misogyny that underlies the anti-abortion crew.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a load of all the politeness.
One more time, “accidentally” is not a synonym for “negligently,” and “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
QOTD 0
Antoine de Saint Exupéry:
Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
The New Know-Nothings 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., finds the Republican disdain for knowledge and information to be somewhat disturbing. A nugget:
Pass lightly — again — over the fact that Obama never said any such thing. What’s more fascinating is that Santorum — holder of an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law — would identify higher education as a mark of elitism.
Pest Control 0
In a stunning act of sanity, my city has taken action against Silicon Valley’s latest pestiferous scheme.
The council voted 6-5 on Tuesday to ban them in most of the Oceanfront resort area and along streets with speed limits above 25 mph — effective immediately.
We’ll see how long sanity holds sway.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
What’s a gun show for other than showing off politeness?
It happened Sunday afternoon at the Greenville Convention Center. . . .
“A witness told officers that the teenager picked the firearm up and the weapon discharged as he was handling it,” said Donnie Porter, a spokesman for the police department.
The bullet struck a gun box and came to rest inside foam within the box.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Ed Kilgore argues that, when Donald Trump talks about “disloyal Jews”–“disloyal” meaning daring to disagree with Donald Trump–he is talking to his evangelical “Christians” devotees. A snippet:
Maybe he doesn’t; for an Ivy Leaguer, the president is impressively ignorant about an awful lot of things. But it’s more likely that all his talk about the Jews is really aimed at a very different audience: his white conservative Evangelical Christian electoral base, which has its own distinctive and unsettling form of philosemitism.
Snakes (Almost) on a Plane 0
The TSA says he ain’t getting his snake back.
QOTD 0
Robert B. Parker, in the voice of Spenser:
When in doubt, do something, and hope that if you keep doing it you’ll come to understand what it is.
Parker, Robert B., Playmates (New York, Berkley, 1990) p. 85
