Author's archive
QOTD 0
Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:
It’s fine to do a tradition once, but, after that, they get kind of repetitive and restrictive.
The Marketplace of Ideas, Reprise
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Writing at the Austin American-Statesman, Tom Leatherbury argues that recent attempts by right-wingers to control censor the content of school libraries and reading lists smells of authoritarianism. A snippet:
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Yet more evidence that Republicans’ charges of Democratic voter fraud stem from psychological projection . . . .
The Marketplace of Ideas
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David argues that, despite Republicans’ claims, “cancel culture” is a Republican thing.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and meet a maskless marauder.
Vaccine Nation, Prima Donna Dept. 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
We are a society of selfish.
Incarceration Nation 0
At the Inky, Will Bunch uses the recent shooting (gang fight?) in Sacramento as a starting point to consider whether self-proclaimed tough-on-crime prosecutors, who tend disproportionately to target minorities and the poor (remember New York City’s “broken windows” policy?), make a difference. After crunching the numbers, he argues that they do not, despite their preening posturing and pandering to the prejudiced.
A snippet: