May, 2024 archive
The Privatization Scam 0
Michigan State professor Josh Cowen documents the duplicity. A snippet (emphasis added):
More documented duplicity at the link.
Those Who Forget History . . . 0
. . . are condemned to condemn themselves to repeat it.
Lead Poisoned 0
Anna Clark, reporter at ProPublica covering issues in the MidWest, discusses her recent reporting on the Flint water crisis, 10 years later.
Learn more here.
Republican Family Values 0
“Republican Family Values” has always been a con and a scam.
Nothing proves that more than Republicans’ fealty to Donald Trump, who has no family values, nor, for that matter, values of any sort.
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
Nothing like a really improbable quest to occupy a holiday. It prepared one for later life quests, like Justice and Truth, equally unattainable.
Greenwood, Kerry, Dead Man’s Chest (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2010) p. 64.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael Paul Williams hears echoes of the rise. Here’s a bit of his article:
(snip)
We’ve seen this backlash at pivotal points in U.S. history: the Reconstruction period following the Civil War; the aftermath of the American Civil Rights Movement; and in response to the election of our nation’s first African American president. Its latest iteration is the reaction to the 2020 racial reckoning that occurred after incidents of police brutality that took the lives of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Robert Reich argues that the America’s second Civil War has already begun.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Courting Disaster 0
Speaking as an ex-husband, my experience tells me that “blame the wife” is seldom a productive strategy.
Vaccine Nation 0
A prescription for peril:
The stupid. It burns.
Sycophantic Supplicating Surrogates, Reprise 0
Seth takes a closer look at Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert getting heckled outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse where they appeared along with several other MAGA weirdos in support of Trump.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A local high school baseball team has been benched because some of its members insisted on rising again.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll and poison our polity.
Afterthought:
That some of the team members are racist does not surprise me.
After all, racism is an American creation. Specifically, the belief that one race is somehow inferior to another and therefore can legitimately be subjugated and exploited is a construct created in the British colonies in America during the 17th Century to justify rationalize excuse chattel slavery. From there, it spread to everywhere Europeans established colonies during the Age of Empire.
I am, however, somewhat disturbed by how willing persons are today to flaunt their racism before others, over half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s.
Why, one wonders, do they think it has become okay to take their hate-full-ness public.
(Yes, I have my theories.)
Betting the Odds 0
The odds are that these folks don’t understand what a “gambling helpline” is for (and that they will need one real soon).