2025 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, University of Kansas professor Robert C. Schwaller points out that today’s Confederate sympathizers are redoubling their efforts to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the legacy of chattel slavery.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent source of medical advice? At Psychology Today Blogs, David Weitzner suggests that you’d best duck the quack.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.
Occupied Territory 0
David runs the numbers that show that Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D. C., is backfiring, even as Trump continues to lie about it.
Afterthought:
I wonder. Does Trump even know when he’s lying, or does he just believe what he believes because he believes it?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, a “responsible gun owners” has taken a child’s life while playing with his portable phallus.
We are a broken society of stupid.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Yastreblyansky reports that a lot of people seem to be resigning themselves from it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt hears something that sounds a lot like “McCarthyism.”
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*Mark Twain.
Occupying Army 0
Thom sees an ominous precedent for the Trump maladministration’s push for military occupation of American cities. (Warning: Short commercial at about the 1:30 mark.)
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier makes a strong case that the Republican thought police are coming for the U. S. Military. A snippet (emphasis added):
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg’s AI is involuntarily assimilating celebrities without their permission.
Words fail me.