2023 archive
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
(I’ll leave it up, because it’s Dinah Shore and my father was a big fan of hers. Just go listen at Youtube. But, really, if they didn’t want to embed it, why did they let me copy the embed code?)
Thought Police 0
Farron discusses a Virginia pol who wants to ban children from libraries if they are not accompanied by adults. (You can learn more about this from a report in the local newspaper.)
When I was kid in elementary school, the local bookmobile would visit my school regularly. I forget now whether it was every week or two weeks or what, but, when it came, it was the highlight of my day. I would regularly check out several books because I liked to read and learn. I would check out fun books and I would check out learning books, and I would read them all before the bookmobile’s next visit.
And now comes clowns (I thought of several other terms to use, but I’ll stick with “clowns”) like this who would deny school children the opportunity to read and learn because they fear that, if children read something, they might learn something. And that, if the children learn something, they might recognize the lies they are being told.
Methinks persons who fear truth are amongst those most to be feared.
Aside:
I can’t blame Farron for getting this wrong, but it’s not “Boat-tort” County. It’s Botetourt (bot’-te-tot) County, named after Lord Botetourt.
I’m a Virginian. I know my state and its history, both the good and the bad.
The Courage of Their Conniptions 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Precedented 0
Gene Lyons sees a precursor of the laughing misnamed “Moms for Liberty.” Here’s a bit from his article; follow the link for the rest. You’ll be glad you did.
Back in the ‘70s, when a former Miss Oklahoma named Anita Bryant and the Rev. Jerry Falwell were running a similar scam, they used to say that because “homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children … they must recruit our children.” That’s not actually true, of course, but it sounded right to a lot of yokels.
But back to the Moms. I love how they call it “Liberty” when they’re demanding censorship and conformity.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
inside a larger story about a house fire on North Carolina’s Outer Banks is a warning that the climates they are a-changing, and they’re coming for all of us:
Doubting Clarence Thomas 0
Thom runs the numbers.
Have Cake, Eat It Too 0
Apparently, Texas believes in the “right to life,” except when it doesn’t.
Just go read it. See if you can wrap your brain around it.
I certainly cannot.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Signal your politeness.
“One of the victims had actually said that the suspect had actually come blocked their vehicle in and cocked the gun back, pointing it at them,” said Officer Mercesed Phillips with the Cape Coral Police Department.
The mope is 73 years old. You’d hope that by now he’d have learned how to behave in public.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
