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The Pen Pal 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Andy Young discusses his (mostly one-way) correspondence with Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee.
No excerpt, summary, or description will do it justice. Just go read it for yourself.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another responsible gun owner (sic) exercises poor judge-ment.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
Incongruously Assembled 0
Suzanne Degges-White has some pointers that may cast light upon some of our polity.
QOTD 0
John Quayle, in the voice of Jolyon:
It has been a guiding principle in my life always to put pleasure before business.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
A false notion, spread, natch, on “social” media.
Karen Karen-Like 0
They just can’t seem to keep from showing us who they really are.
Left Holding the Bags 0
Shorter David Mills: Plastic bag people, you’re such a drag.
Aside:
Thanks to the arrival of the German chains Lidl and Aldi in our neck of the woods, we’ve become quite used to supplying our own reusable bags, and, frankly, it works out quite nicely. Usually, two of the reusable bags suffice where, before, we would leave the store with five or more plastic bags.
QOTD 0
Alison Golden and Grace Dagnall:
Anger is poisonous to reason, and prejudice obscures facts better than a think winter fog.
Golden, Alison and Dagnall, Grace, The Case of Sampson’s Leap, (San Carlos: Mesa Verde, 2021) p. 310
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
So often, it seems that those who spout the slogan “America, Love it or leave it” are the sort that hate an awful lot of their fellow citizens and hate a good portion of The Constitution and even the basic tenets of democracy. Funny it never occurs to them that perhaps THEY should be the ones leaving, since the principles upon which our nation was founded seem to really rub them the wrong way. Marjorie Traitor Greene is a prime example of this type. She has said that states need to think about seceding. I imagine this is in an effort to make America more like Marjorie and her fellow unhinged conspiracy-loving friends, and less like the clear-headed, logical, well-informed citizenry Thomas Jefferson dreamt of. Good luck with that Marge. Mangy Fetlocks thought it was time someone told her that maybe SHE is the one who needs to leave, not the rest of us.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Bangor Daily News, University of Maine professor Nicole Coffey Kellett argues that truth-full truth matters.
The Disinformation Industrial Complex 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Mary Blankenship looks at how our polity has become flooded with lies and falsehoods; she points out that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
And, in a similar vein, Robert Jay Lifton looks at a recent book about Timothy McVeigh and explores the influences that led him to violence.
Given the state of dis coarse discourse, both pieces are worth your while.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” thought the gun was unloaded.
The grandfather confirmed that he shot his grandson with a Glock .45 pistol but said he thought it was unloaded.
The Uninformed and the Uninformers 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest.