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When “Smart” Is Stupid 0
There’s a reason why, when we needed a couple of new appliances to replace ones who had given up the ghost after many years of long and faithful service, I said to the sales rep, “I don’t want anything ‘smart.'”
Insanity . . . 0
. . . is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
Blaming the Shoulder 0
Every time I think we have plunged to the deepest depths of stupid, I am proved wrong.
The Unnecessary Question 0
Michael Paul Williams has some thoughts about the motives for the muting:
“It’s not just anti-Blackness. It is an explicit act of legislating white ignorance … because they are being robbed of their history as well,” she said of white students.
She recalled the 2020 movement for Black lives after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer . . .
“There were too many white young people out there marching with Black people hand in hand,” Guy said. “That is the biggest concern that they have … white people being educated.”
Image via Job’s Anger.
Foxy Shaded 0
Fox News gets pantsed.
Aside:
As they trade in fiction, one would think they would recognize fict–oh, never mind.
Establishmentarians, Reprise 0
Rachel Laser makes a strong case that, as regards the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they are establishing their way along. A snippet:
As a Jefferson City Baptist minister observed during these debates, Missouri’s abortion ban is “Christian Nationalism.”
I commend her piece to your attention.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t. Rather, however it begins, it ends up being all about the Benjamins.
Via PoliticalProf.
Establishmentarians 0
LZ Grandersonn suggests that America’s establishmentarians are having Pence-sive thoughts. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
Both Sides Don’t 0
Thom discusses examples of false equivalencies in recent weeks.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” tries tries to fly the fiendly skies while packing politeness.
Low Common Denominator 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’shttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-george-santos-congress-gop-extremism-20230124.html Helen Ubiñas thinks she’s found the common denominator for success as a Republican Congressperson:
Follow the link for the evidence.