April, 2024 archive
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
More mean for the sake of mean.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At NorthJersey.com, Jim Beckerman asks how dis discourse became dis coarse. Here’s how he starts his article:
“It” being: everything. Our current mess. The low information, disinformation, gullibility and hysteria that are breaking out like measles during Election 2024. Who was the prophet — if only we had listened! — who warned us it was all coming? And begged us to do something before it was too late?
George Orwell, with his doublethink and his thought police? Richard Hofstadter, who warned us about The Paranoid Style in American Politics? Maybe.
But there’s another thinker, less well known, who may have nailed it better than either.
Follow the link to learn who, in Beckerman’s opinion, correctly foresaw the current state of dis coarse discourse and his reasons for reaching that opinion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind. A snippet:
According to the Lake County sheriff’s office, deputies were called to West Rose Avenue near Mundelein at approximately 2:50 p.m. Saturday for a report of a 17-year-old with a gunshot wound to his left leg.
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.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
Megaphones on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
The Crypto Con 0
Yes, indeedy-do, it seems that there’s an app for that.
Self-Made Men Lucky Ducks
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Sam talks with Professor Ingrid Robeyns about the tendency of persons to attribute to virtue or divine favor that which is actually the result of pure dumb luck.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, a “responsible gun owner” allows his politeness to become child’s play.
And he was not the only “responsible gun owner” to allow a child to discharge his responsibility.
We are a society of stupid.
False Equivalence 0
Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, points out that both sides don’t.
Republican Thought Police 0
Heaven forbic that students be exposed to knowledge.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at the Tampa Bay Times, pediatrician Shetal Shah find the recent uptick in the number of measles cases in the U. S. to be quite alarming. Here’s a bit of his piece:
