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When Fiction Becomes Reality 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kathryn Grossman makes a strong case that, under the Trump maladministration, we are being transported into the world of George Orwell’s 1984.
The Deserter 0
Der Spiegel takes an in-depth look at Donald Trump’s decision to abandon America’s allies, as illustrated by his recent meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A snippet (emphasis added):
Methinks it safe to say that, under America, America is no longer “a shining city on a hill,” to quote Ronald Reagan.
What it seems to be becoming gives me shudders.
And methinks it is influenced in great part by the legacy of America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
QOTD 0
Hugh O’Brian, in the voice of Wyatt Earp, and Mason Alan Dinehart, in the voice of Bat Masterson:
Masterson: Well, just what is vagrancy?
Earp: If you’re playing poker and you win, you’re a sportin’ man. But if you lose, you’re a vagrant.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Heather Rose Artushin talks with Eve L. Ewing about how America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to affect our society. Their conversation focuses primarily on how schools have served to perpetuate the myth of white racial superiority that was created to justify theft of labor through slavery. Given the recent assaults on schools and libraries and on efforts to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, I recommend this as a timely and valuable read.
Here’s how the discussion starts (emphasis in the original):
Eve Ewing: The United States has very specific origins defined by the unique intersection of two forms of violence: the institution of chattel slavery and the mass killing and dispossession of the people indigenous to this land. In order for people to abide by these structures in a republic that defines itself as being the “land of the free,” where all men are created equal, requires a kind of mental gymnastics to reconcile a pretty obvious self-contradiction. That’s where schools come in . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” just couldn’t resist the temptation to play with his portable phallus in public.
The Rule of Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino interprets the inducement to incitement.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The name of yet another secessionist general dons a disguise a returns to (dis)grace a U. S. Army base.
Aside:
Do the Party of the New Secesh really think that they are fooling anyone with their silly cover stories here?
A Tune for the Times 0
Warninng: Short promo from minute one to minute two.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
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.
Vaccine Nation, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
Pediatrician Susan Kressly, who happens to be president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, writes that anti-vax lies about vaccines have pediatricians worried. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The stupid. It burns.
Name Gamers 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth notes that Republicans’ fascination with renaming things has reached the Florida legislature, so he offers several suggestions. Here’s just one of them; follow the link for the others.
We could rename the thoroughfare outside Trump’s cheesy resort the Convicted Felon Freeway.