June, 2022 archive
All the News that Fits Meets
Still Rising Again after All These Years
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“It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means” 0
Thom explains the true origins of the Second Amendment to a caller.
Aside:
The Second Amendment was all about slave patrols. Any other explanation is, shall we say, ahistorical.
The Pipe Dreamer 0
Writing at the Tampa Bay Times, Roy Peter Clark suggests that Republicans’ current efforts to shut down the free market place of ideas may have unintended side effects (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
Methinks he is an optimist.
For every adventurous soul who would open a closed door, there are nine sheep who would knock once, then walk away, and twenty who are retweeting randos on Twitter and liking zombie bots on the Zuckerborg.
I am not sanguine.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
We are again reminded that “social” media isn’t.
QOTD 0
Jean de la Fontaine:
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Facebook Frolics 0
Well-regulated Slap-on-the-wrist frolics.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
In Republican World, sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.
Vaccine Nation 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Dustin Ballard tells the story of a friend of his, whom he calls “Alice,” who got sucked into the cultish anti-vaxx world. In the process, he explores what attracts persons to and keeps them loyal to cults that feed on and ratify misinformation. Here’s a bit:
I think his article casts some light on those among us who would deny the evidence of things seen.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman argues that Florida Governor DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law stand squarely in the middle of a long tradition of suppressing speech in the American South, a tradition which, like so many of the negative aspects of our society, ultimately reaches back to racism and slavery.
Follow the link for his reasoning.