July, 2023 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As one who trained as an historian (with a focus of U. S. Southern) and as the descendant of persons who, as the saying goes, “held” slaves, I hold DeSantis’s and his tools’ hypocritical denial of the reality of chattel slavery, quite frankly, beneath contempt and disgusting beyond words.
I would add this: A point seldom mentioned is that, as far as slaveholders were concerned, slaves were not persons; they were, to put it bluntly, livestock.
The reason behind racism as it developed during the period of European expansion–the belief that white persons were somehow superior to persons of other skin colors–was to justify treating those persons differently. It was literally whitewashing cruelty.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . but only if you can get to the boarding gate.
This New Gilded Age 0
One of the things that often escapes us is this: most of the persons working in the entertainment industry are not stars and don’t make big bucks (for an additional perspective on this, listen to the first part of this podcast).
Sam and the crew shed some light on what’s behind the current SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood writers strike.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates why that phrase is an oxymoron.
Also, too.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Arkansas Senator wants to go back to the land of Cotton and to make sure the old times there are not forgotten.
