2024 archive
Post Mortem 0
Cliff Schecter wonders why it can happen (is happening?) here. (Warning: Mild language.)
The Tales They Tell 0
To answer Curtis’s question, darn straight they do.
I went to all-white school under Jim Crow.*
They told us a lot of lies and even more half-truths about life in the old South.
And the lies live on.
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*At least, it was all-white until I think it was the tenth grade when one I’m sure very carefully chosen black girl joined the senior class; the next year, a few more black students joined the junior and senior classes, and so on.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Apparently, he just couldn’t resist the temptation to shoot down Walmart’s delivery drone.
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.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
Yet more evidence that the fabled “responsible gun owner” is a mythical creature.
Normalization Nation 0
Methinks the Rude One makes some good points.
Aside:
I gave up on television news, whether broadcast or cable, a long time ago. (Except if there’s a snow storm, and, as the climates they are a-changing, it’s been several years since we had even a little one of those.)
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Writing at the Des Moines Register, Bruce Lear argues that we have become an uncivil society and will suffer–are suffering–for it. Methinks he has a point.
A tiny bit:
. . . we seem to have forgotten how to be civil or to compromise.
Follow the link for context.
Responsible Fiscals 0
Some Republican Congresspersons want to go all in on the Crypto Con.
Republican Family Values 0
Thom talks with Jacob Soboroff about the film, Separated, which documents Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents.
It would appear the “suffer the children” is a Republican family value.
You can learn more about the film at this link.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Baited and switched? Most definitely.