2021 archive
Three Parts Suppression, One Part Kabuki? 0
At the Washington Monthly, David Atkins suggests there is a second element to Republican voter suppression attempts such as the recent law passed in Georgia. He suggests that, in addition to wanting to suppress likely Democratic votes, Republicans feel constrained by Trump’s “Big Lie” to show the Trumpettes in their base that they are taking real action against the mythic fraud which Trump continues to allege.
I think his theory is worth a look.
(Spellink era correxted.)
Recommended Listening 0
The Librivox audiobook recording of The Red Thumb Mark, by R. Austin Freeman.
R. Austin Freeman’s Dr. John Thorndyke was fiction’s first forensic detective.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,” Reprise 0
In a tour-de-force of truth, Seth skewers the sociopathic sophistries of the ammosexuals and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that this symbolism was not intentional.
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves” 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emory University Professor Falguni A. Sheth discusses the recent mass shooting of women of Asian descent and punctures the pretense that racism had nothing to do with it. A nugget:
The absurdity of these statements is insightful: It allows us to glimpse the ways in which racist violence is denied and separated from its longstanding history in the United States.
Follow the link for the rest.
