September, 2023 archive
Left Holding the Bags 0
Shorter David Mills: Plastic bag people, you’re such a drag.
Aside:
Thanks to the arrival of the German chains Lidl and Aldi in our neck of the woods, we’ve become quite used to supplying our own reusable bags, and, frankly, it works out quite nicely. Usually, two of the reusable bags suffice where, before, we would leave the store with five or more plastic bags.
QOTD 0
Alison Golden and Grace Dagnall:
Anger is poisonous to reason, and prejudice obscures facts better than a think winter fog.
Golden, Alison and Dagnall, Grace, The Case of Sampson’s Leap, (San Carlos: Mesa Verde, 2021) p. 310
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
So often, it seems that those who spout the slogan “America, Love it or leave it” are the sort that hate an awful lot of their fellow citizens and hate a good portion of The Constitution and even the basic tenets of democracy. Funny it never occurs to them that perhaps THEY should be the ones leaving, since the principles upon which our nation was founded seem to really rub them the wrong way. Marjorie Traitor Greene is a prime example of this type. She has said that states need to think about seceding. I imagine this is in an effort to make America more like Marjorie and her fellow unhinged conspiracy-loving friends, and less like the clear-headed, logical, well-informed citizenry Thomas Jefferson dreamt of. Good luck with that Marge. Mangy Fetlocks thought it was time someone told her that maybe SHE is the one who needs to leave, not the rest of us.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Bangor Daily News, University of Maine professor Nicole Coffey Kellett argues that truth-full truth matters.
The Disinformation Industrial Complex 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Mary Blankenship looks at how our polity has become flooded with lies and falsehoods; she points out that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
And, in a similar vein, Robert Jay Lifton looks at a recent book about Timothy McVeigh and explores the influences that led him to violence.
Given the state of dis coarse discourse, both pieces are worth your while.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” thought the gun was unloaded.
The grandfather confirmed that he shot his grandson with a Glock .45 pistol but said he thought it was unloaded.
The Uninformed and the Uninformers 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest.
The Wedding Industrial Complex 0
I also had two weddings, but they were years apart and to different persons.
A Stark Choice 0
Melinda Henneberger lays it out.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Train your pets with politeness.
According to a court affidavit, Shane Braley, 36, was “extremely intoxicated” last week when he executed the dog outside his home in Jensen Beach, an Atlantic Coast locale.
None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0
. . . because, as the Rude One points out, they are terrified. He cites an article from The Atlantic (warning: language):
