2021 archive
“The Pedagogy of Repression” 0
David and Professor Henry Giroux discuss the destruction of the concept of the common good.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another child is sacrificed in NRA Paradise.
(snip)
The sheriff office said that the boy found a firearm inside an apartment and “accidentally shot himself.”
The Propagators of Pandemic 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, a doctor speaks. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
Instead, our rage is directed at the disinformation profiteers — those bad actors with the big platforms who are behind each and every one of these deaths. Some of them run state governments, some have M.D. next to their names, others are millionaires who smugly sit on their Fox News perches and some spew bile from their radio pulpit. They are the ones who have helped drive us back into the throes of this pandemic.
And while we’re on the subject . . . .
Vaccine Nation 0
Elie Mystal minces no words. An excerpt:
The government can require people to be healthy. It cannot require people to get sick.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
Vaccine Nation, the Freaks Freak Out Dept. 0
Afterthought:
To again quote my history professor from many years ago, Dr. Shade, “history is irony.”
Here the irony, at least as I see it, is that many Republicans are willing to let voters sicken and die because they think that doing so will help them win votes.
Kale Fail 0
The traditional Southern way of cooking greens (spinach, turnip greens, collard greens, kale) is to put them in a pot of boiling water with a hunk of fat meat and simmer them until every nutrient has fled for its life.
I read once that the legendary restaurant critic and cookbook author Craig Claiborne*, who grew up in Mississippi, once said that, of all the greens, kale is the only one deserving of such treatment. (Unfortunately, these years later, I cannot track down an attribution.)
Me, I would rather eat dock weed.
I never have figured out a sensible reason for the recent lionization of kale. Neither, for that matter, has Charlotte Markey.
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*I have worn out three copies of his New York Times Cookbook and my copy of his New York Times International Cookbook continues to exist solely because of library tape.