2021 archive
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel points out that
Republicans say they don’t like “cancel culture.”
In truth, they like it just fine when they’re the ones doing the canceling.
Follow the link for their evidence.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Honest to Betsy (Pete’s on vacation this week), you can’t make this stuff up.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The drum beat goes on.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Fly the fiendly skies, with politeness.
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.