2021 archive
The Hollow Man 0
Writing at the Des Moines Register, retired professor David W. Leslie makes strong case that we knew all along that current federal executive was–er–less than adequate, but we (too many of us, especially in politics and journalism) chose to look the other way. Here’s a bit of what he writes:
A Picture Is Worth 0
At the Inky, Tim Tai explains.
“A Lightbulb Moment” 0
Sam and his crew discuss how conservatives suddenly see the light.
Phoning It In 0
The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey is making a list for the “Democracy Stoppers Hotline.”
Immunity Impunity
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The card that enforcers always use to trump their way out of being held responsible for their venality.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier considers the role played by “social” media in fomenting insurrection. A snippet:
Choosing the Low Road 0
Thom discusses why the Republican Party fears honest elections.
Lost in a Lost Cause 0
Elizabeth City, N. C., is trying to give away its Confederate monument, but it seems that no one wants it.
Parler Talk 0
He’s a braver person than I am: Bryan Parker joined Parler to see what it was like.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A polite society is a clean society.
He said he and his girlfriend, identified as Kelsey Lynn Smith,17, were in a room and she was on the bed. The teen said he was walking around the room playing with the gun, spinning it around his finger.
While playing with the weapon, he said, it accidentally went off.
“Accidentally” is not a synonym of “negligently.”
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.
