June, 2020 archive
Maskless Marauder 0
I have to agree with the masked fellow who was ahead of me at the drug store the other day. I overheard him saying to the clerk, “Why do they want to go around infecting people? I just don’t get it.”
On the other hand, I don’t get persons who are driving alone in their cars and wearing masks. I put mine on when I get out of the car to deal with people; the rest of the time, it hangs from my cell phone holder.
No Questions Asked 0
Badtux wonders why good cops are so willing to protect bad cops.
All the News that Fits 0
Aside:
At the end of the piece, the columnist, Bill Goodykoontz, seems to imply that Fox News is “reputable media outfit.”
It isn’t. It never has been. Indeed, it has never tried to be.
It’s always been nothing more than Roger Ailes’s dream of “Republican TV.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
“I realized it was a gunshot, and we saw my dog run down the hill,” Masson said. “He only made it 10 – 15 feet down the hill before he laid down.”
Masson looked up the hill to see who was responsible for firing the weapon and injuring the dog, named Lucky.
“That’s when I noticed two individuals walking over and kind of looking directly at him and watching him kind of lay down,” he said. “And then they turned around and walked away.”
“The New South” 0
When I was in grad school for history, I wanted to concentrate on the ante bellum South.
I had several reasons for this, including an interest in the causes of the Civil War; the disconnect between history that happened and the “Virginia Cavalier” mythology I was taught in my all-white Jim Crow elementary school; a Virginia heritage that dates to the 1600s; and an ancestry that includes slaveholders, Confederate officers, and proponents of slavery.
In our first meeting, my faculty advisor, whose interest was “the New South,” asked me why I was interested in a society that was–I can still see him say it–“gone with the wind”
But, as we see every day, it was not gone with the wind.
It has not even gone.
And, ironically, that novel to which said adviser so sarcastically alluded was without question one of the most poisonous and effective works of political and social propaganda ever propagated.
All Tuckered Out 0
David looks at the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and explains how, despite the plaints of the Trumpettes, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
