January, 2021 archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article cataloguing the many Capitol rioters who outed themselves on “social” media during their brief time in that building, the AP includes what I think is a telling comment:
On that same topic, can you do soul-searching if you have no soul?
Myth, Busted 0
At the Des Moines Register, Walter Suza explains that the Old West was nothing like what we were taught from movies and television shows and Zane Grey novels. Here’s a bit:
(snip)
The conflict between white and Native Americans was about land. Native Americans’ land.
White settlers wanted the land and would kill to obtain it, and the Native Americans were willing to die to protect their land.
Read the Footnotes 0
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executes a tour-de-force debunking of duplicitous drivel.
“Real Americans” 0
Tim Steller takes issue with the concept that somehow some Americans are more American than others. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
They are also real, everyday Americans from real America.
Afterthought:
Watch closely, and you will see that, when some politician or pundit starts avowing his fealty to “real Americans,” it precedes divisiveness and bile.
Patriot Gamers 0
Franita Tolson explores the pretzeled words of the seditionists telling themselves that they are patriots. A nugget:
Not coincidentally, the language of revolution reemerges when white Americans feel threatened by the rise of minority political power.
Geeking Out 0
VirtualBox VM of POP!OS on Mageia v. 7 using the Fluxbox window manager. The POP! wallpaper is from the POP! library. The host wallpaper is from my collection.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of Donald Trump’s most poisonous legacies was to give, by his example, racists permission to be racist in public in a manner not seen since the days of George Wallace and of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” Thom and Joe Madison discuss how to deal with this.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At NJ.com, Albert Kelly compares and contrasts.
All the News that Fits 0
Gene Collier looks at the deep distrust with which some Americans view the news media and considers the source(s). A snippet (emphasis added):
In a related vein, Beth Rabinowitz offers a look back at the era of yellow journalism and how objectivity became a journalistic value.
(Broken link fixed.)
Inside Jobs 0
Benjamin Carter sounds a warning. An excerpt; follow the link for the rest (emphasis added).
Imagine if the courts had been more generously stocked with judges willing to entertain the Trump campaign’s ludicrous arguments.
Above all, imagine if Trump had been a bit more competent, a bit more strategic, a bit more daring. . . .
It is much more common for democracies to be undermined by seemingly legal actions taken from within than by violence from without.
Connectivity 0
I find it eerie to wake up and find my internet connection is working. As I mentioned earlier, I was experiencing connectivity issues. Were it not for my cellphone hotspot, I would not have been able to maintain my stream of drivel . . . .
Last week, I prevailed upon my ISP to send a tech to my house, and he seems to have fixed it. I will admit that I have some grumps with my ISP, but their tech support is excellent.
I had earlier switched out my modem for a “new” modem from my ISP’s local store, and it turned out that the new modem was dodgy (if I were an ISP and someone moved away and returned their modem, I would repackage it too). The support tech did his thing and installed a different modem, and the connection has been rock solid ever since. But I am still somewhat surprised to get up in the morning and find that the connection is still working.
Of course, with my luck, when I wake up tomorrow, it probably won’t be working.:{
