2020 archive
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Right here, right now, it’s the heat.
And the heat is a sympton of climate change.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Take politeness out for a spin.
“It looks like he was literally playing with the gun, spinning it, and the gun went off,” Conner said.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
“But you don’t believe in magic,” murmured Phryne.
“But I do believe in belief,” he answered.
Greenwood, Kerry, Death before Wicket (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008), p. 106.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children with politeness.
The child went into his father’s bedroom and opened the drawer to get the socks when he was injured from an unsecured 9 mm handgun that his father forgot was in the drawer.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s still Republican policy, even in these viral times.
“As Seen on TV” 0
Will Bunch has a theory as to why Donald Trump has deployed his secret(ive) police in Portland, Oregon. Here’s the gist; follow the link for the complete article, which is well worth your while (emphasis added):
While on the subject, PoliticalProf has a thought.
Joe Biden 0
It will not surprise my two or three regular readers that I support Joe Biden for President. When I lived in Delaware, he represented Delaware well in the Senate, and he served nobly as President Obama’s Vice President.
I will grant that he does tend to put his feet, both of them, in his mouth from time to time, but he is a good and decent man, as our current President is not.
And, as I point out on the sidebar —–> over there, I vote in the real world, because it’s the world in which I live.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpled at the BLM protest (details and context at the link):
Aside:
. . . thus revealing the oft unspoken meaning of the “all lives matter” hockey puck.
The GOP’s One-Note Samba 0
Martin Longman speculates about the long-term results of the Republican Party’s decision to put all its eggs in one pasty-white basket. A snippet:
Of course, each act of racial polarization and every racist utterance and pronouncement only exacerbated the problem and thus served to justify the next round of outrages. Eventually, only a Donald Trump could adequately encompass and express the kind of racial fear and hatred required to keep the GOP viable.