April, 2024 archive
Establishmentarians Look Eastward 0
The Washington Monthly’s David Atkins analyzes today’s Republican Party’s partiality for Putin. An excerpt:
Follow the link for context.
Sleepy Don 0
As the saying goes, if you snooze, you lose.
The Pusher Men 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues dissects the Sackler family’s strategy to use bankruptcy law to avoid being held accountable for the actions of Purdue Pharma. Here are some of the points they make; follow the link for a detailed exploration of the Sacklers’ strategy and its implications.
- In the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case, the Sackler family sought a nondebtor release.
- The release barred opioid lawsuits against the family, protecting them despite having not declared bankruptcy.
- Those claimants who opposed the bankruptcy plan wanted a “day in court” against the Sacklers.
Loan Sharks 0
Emma and the crew parse the perfidy.
As I have mentioned before in these electrons, I’m so old that I remember when college costs were within the reach of middle class families.
Methinks the larger question is, why are they no longer?
For that matter, where did the middle class go?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Display politeness whilst traversing the nation’s highways.
An Alternate Reality 0
The Inky’s Will Bunch tells what it was like when he visited a Trump rally over the weekend. A snippet:
Vaccine Nation 0
Speaking of merchants of death . . . .
Disseminators of Defamation, or Accountability for the No Account, Reprise 0
Mark Bankston updates the Majority Report on his case against “social” media liars and the media that propagates the lies thereof. As an aside, the discussion sheds much light on how the disinformation highway disinforms.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
A gunshot rattled a Chuck E. Cheese in Gaston County on Sunday, police said.
(snip)
Officers said a father reached into his pocket and accidentally touched the trigger as he was leaving the business.
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.
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
