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The Rule of Flaw 0
Mark Peckham reminds that the Republican Party has become the party of flaw and disorder.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle disagreements with politeness.
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.
Republican Family Values 0
Yearning for the good old days.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Fair winds and following seas to Steve Lawrence.
A Choice, Not an Echo, Reprise 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at Katie Britt’s response to the State of the Union address.
He was not impressed:
America was looking for proof of normalcy.
And it got “The Three Faces of Eve.”
Follow the link to see why he said that.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via David Pakman’s Youtube page, Brittany Page explores the New Secesh’s attempts to whitewash (I use that term advisedly) slavery and slaveholders. (As my two or three regular readers know, I have found David to be a reasoned and reliable commentator.)
Afterthought:
I had ancestors who wore the grey. Indeed, one of them is immortalized in the Harper’s Ferry wax museum signing John Brown’s death warrant.*
I do not deny them, but neither do I try to justify what they did. (Understand, perhaps, as one who trained as an historian, but not justify.)
Those who refuse to learn from past evils doom themselves to repeating them.
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*I may have mentioned this before in these electrons, but it was a moment for me when, on a visit to that museum some years ago, Second Son, still in school at the time, looked at the exhibit and said, “So, he was on the wrong side.”
That brought home to me with emphasis that, yes indeed, he was on the wrong side.
It was the wrong side then, and it is the wrong side now.
And it is still rising again after all these years.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A case of filial politeness.
Afterthought:
It occurs to me that one of the sales techniques of the merchants of death is marketing fear. They have done so successfully, so that “shoot first, don’t ask questions,” has now become the default response of far too many oxymoronic “responsible gun owners.”
A Tune for the Times 0
Warming: Mild language.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes children to politeness.
Establishmentarians 0
Long-time Baptist pastor Stephen Jones argues that right-wing extremist they-call-themselves Christians get it precisely backwards:
Follow the link for context.
The Party of Flaw and Disorder 0
Michael in Norfolk documents the duplicity.