June, 2022 archive
Short Attention Span Theatre, Florida Man Dept. 0
Farron points out, “You gotta pay attention the follow through.”
He has a point. Too often in the haste to chase breaking news, neither the media nor its audience and readers pay attention to the rest of the story.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0
Outlandish conspiracy theories seem to be going mainstream; think the “great replacement,” which Tucker Carlson has been touting to his large audience, just to pick one example from many.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Sara Gorman and Jack M. Gorman take a look at what might make persons receptive to conspiracy theories. It’s a particularly worthwhile read at this juncture. A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the authors’ theories about what makes some persons predisposed to drink this poisonous pilsner.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twits who would suffer the children.
Facts Are What People Think 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
The stupid. It burns.
Facebook Frolics 0
The things that you’re liable,
To read in the Bible Facebook,
They ain’t necessarily so.
Criminal Inactivity 0
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Charles Blow thinks he may have uncovered a common denominator in America’s epidemic of gunnuttery.
No other country has the level of American carnage, but no other country has American Republicans.
Follow the link for his explanation of that statement.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Clyde W. Ford points out that there’s nothing new about “replacement theory.”
The flaw is that equality is not “replacement” in any way. Nobody is being “replaced.”
QOTD 0
John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:
I’m a lawyer, for God’s sake. I was trained to ruin people’s lives, not save them.
Suffer the Children, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Dept. 0
Sam and his crew foresee an effort to return to the days of child labor and sweatshops.
It’s All about the Benjamins, Reprise 0
At the San Jose Mercury-News, Louis Klarevas, Sonali Rajan and Charles Branas call out the absurdity of the NRA’s plan for the proliferation of portable phalli. Here’s a bit from their article:
One the same topic, the writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times calls out the misdirection play:
Shooting up a supermarket is not what a well-regulated militia does.
Follow the links for the rest.
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
The Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson follows the money.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Court appears ready to tell Mike Lindell to get stuffed.