May, 2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
A TikTok Blockbuster 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Crypto-Con 0
Two professors from the University of South Florida explain that (no surprises here) it’s bubblelicious.
Follow the link for their reasoning.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball discuss the Finnish model for fighting disinformation and misinformation through teaching media literacy to (what here would be called) middle and high schoolers. A snippet:
But does such early education work? In a word, yes.
Follow the link for their reasoning.
The Entitlement Society, Reprise 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Cassandra Rice has a taxing thought:
Yet, thanks to our skewed tax code, they won’t have to pay more in taxes like the rest of us do.
Follow the link for more taxing thoughts.
Facebook Frolics 0
We are a society of stupid.
We will believe stuff we read on a computer screen, but, if the same stuff came in the mail, we wouldn’t even open the envelope.
Vaccine Nation 0
An anti-vaxxer debates Sam about vaccinations. The result is predictable.
Aside:
Unfortunately, we have no vaccine against stupid.
The Fear Marketplace of Ideas 0
Along these lines, in the context of a longer editorial about efforts to ban books in schools because reading books might lead to (gasp!) thinking, my local rag today points out
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Court that Eschews Precedent 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Roanoke Times poses an inquiry.
What’s in a Name? 0
Well, quite a bit, actually.
Such as casting a patina of legitimacy over treason, just to pick a for instance.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Still rising again after all these years, oh so politely.
