2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another person practices random acts of politeness.
Vaccine Nation 0
Tony Norman is not sanguine. Here’s a bit of his article:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Gulling the Gullible 0
At the Des Moines Register, Roger Patocka argues that too many of our polity are allowing themselves to be led into a fantasy world by fabulists:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
(Broken link fixed.)
The Research 0
Warning: Short ad at the end.
Remembe, “social” media isn’t.
Vaccine Nation 0
Covidiocy is taking a toll on health care workers. Here’s a bit of the report from The Michigan Advance:
Workers described people throwing punches and hurling cascades of threats at them after long waits in understaffed emergency rooms. Others will yell at doctors because they don’t believe their COVID diagnoses, and patients have threatened legal action if they don’t receive ivermectin — a drug used to deworm horses that some prominent conservatives are pushing as a COVID-19 treatment despite a specific warning from the Federal Drug Administration not to do so.
Tony Norman has more on the topic.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom explains to his guest that one thing is not like the other thing.
The Bullies’ Pulpit (Updated) 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Vicki Larson wonders where the civility went.
And, elsewhere in the same paper, sportswriter Ray Brewer laments similar issues in high school athletics.
Addendum:
For many years, my brother has umpired baseball games, mostly for high schools, but also for youth leagues. He gets a little bit of money for it, but he does it mostly because he loves baseball.
He tells me that umpires for amateur and scholastic games are in increasingly short supply and that one of the primary reasons for this is the behavior of parents, fans, and coaches.