November, 2021 archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., explains.
All the News that Fits, “What If” Dept. 0
Aside:
Methinks the author, in some sort of inane gesture to bothsiderism, grossly overestimates the influence of MSNBC.
MSNBC has viewers (of which I am not one, by the way, as I gave up on television news a long time ago–except when there’s a snow storm). Fox News has disciples.
Supply Change, Reprise 0
Clogged up supply chains around the world have garnered much publicity, especially as the time for holiday giving approaches. At the San Francisco Chronicle, Christopher S. Tang takes a look at conflux of factors why we may not be able exactly what we want exactly when we want it oh poor wittle us-ens. A snippet:
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
As Elizabeth Dye points out at Above the Law, the executives of OAN (the right-wing One America News network) lack the courage of their conniptions.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun asks a (rhetorical) question:
Follow the link to see how they answered it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A turkey at a turkey shoot.
“It was completely accidental,” said Maness.
No. It was not “completely accidental.”
Five persons were injured, one seriously, because a practitioner of politeness precariously positioned his politeness pole in a negligent manner.
QOTD 0
Kila Markham as Mrs. Morgan and Kenneth Graham as Jude Langham:
Mrs. Morgan: I’ll get you coffee and the paper.
Langham: Just the coffee, I’ve had enough bad news.
Misdirection Play, Supply Change Dept. 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Gier cuts through the caterwauling and continues to the crux. A nugget:
Follow the link for the complete article.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Demonstrate politeness while in the TSA screening line.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Addendum:
PoliticalProf has a comment.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
As my two or three regular readers know, I’m a bit of a mystery buff.
I’ve recently reread one of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels, Champaign for One, which was first published in the mid-1950s. Prominent in the plot is a “home for unwed mothers,” a place where expectant unwed mothers could go to hide their shame until their children were born and given up for adoption, once a common practice. (The one featured in the story, the Grantham Institute, was no Magdalene Laundry by any means, but a gracious and humane institution, but that’s neither here nor there. A true Magdalen Laundry does feature in one of Kerry Greenwood’s Phrynne Fisher stories.)
Rebecca Watson fears a return on such institutions (Magdalene Laundries, that is, not Grantham Institutes) may be in the offing.
