2025 archive
The Fifth Columnist 0
In World War II, my father was in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944-45. He almost never spoke of his experiences there, but I am confident that he would agree with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Adriana E. Ramírez, who writes
Go read the rest.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and get a complimentary bag of fiendliness.
Numbers Gaming 0
Congressional Republicans are designing a poke for their pig.
Much more at the link.
Vaccine Nation 0
In an article at the Washington Monthly, Bill Scher admits that he is less than sanguine about the Republican Party’s decision to abandon medical science. Here’s a tiny bit of his article (emphasis added):
Fears that the Kennedy appointment will lead to dire public health consequences ratcheted up this week with the abrupt cancellation of an annual Food and Drug Administration meeting necessary to select strains for the next flu season vaccine.
Sabotaging the flu vaccine will kill people.
(Broken link fixed.)
The Agent of Chaos 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey asks a question, then he answers it:
Follow the reasons for his answer.
Establishmentarians 0
In a letter to the editor of the Portland Press Herald, the Rev. Dr. Douglas Nielsen suggests that America’s far-right evangelical they-call-themselves Christians may have mistaken an identity.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
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.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk perceives a rhyme in the news. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Meta: Blogroll 0
I have removed a few sites which seem to have blog-faded from the blogroll. And I’ve added a new one.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Emma talks with Syracuse University professor Austin Kocher about our immigration system is “brokent by design” and about the racism that underlies much anti-immigration feelings.
This New Gilded Age 0
Robert Reich fears that the existence of independent regulatory agencies may be in the crosshairs of today’s Robber Barons, aided and abetted by the Trump (mal)administration and the Supreme Supremacist Court.
True Believers 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Diane E Dreher discusses the research of psychiatrist Paul Holinger on the psychological reasons why persons may be attracted to extremist groups. Given dis coarse discourse, I think offers a valuable perspective.
Here’s a bit: