2021 archive
“We’re the Victims Here” 0
Seth comments on Republicans’ reactions to the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert, Reprise 0
Mike Littwin looks at the fuss newly installed Colorado representative and QAnon fan Lauren Boebert has stirred up since arriving in Washington, D. C. A snippet:
But Boebert, who knows nothing more than how to get noticed, put up a video that would go viral of her walking down what she called dangerous Washington streets, explaining why she needed a Glock at her side all times. Turns out, she didn’t yet have a D.C. concealed carry license and that the dangerous neighborhood is made up of multimillion-dollar houses.
Freedom of Screech, One More Time 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu explains that words can have consequences. A snippet:
Maskless Marauders 0
At the Roanoke Times, Keith Young marvels at those who go maskless in blunderland. (Frankly, the piece could use a little help from an editor, but he makes good points.) Here’s a bit:
Freedom of Screech, Reprise 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson offers a primer on the First Amendment.
Geeking Out 0
VirtualBox virtual machine of Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment on Mageia v. 7 under the Fluxbox window manager.
The Festering 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Benesch makes the case that hate-full speech corrodes the polity, not all at once, but slowly, over time. A nugget:
Every time Trump has made an inflammatory, hateful, and/or false remark since, journalists and Democrats called it out. But not Republicans, with the rarest of exceptions . . . .