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(Lack-)Wits Gathering Wool(ery) (Updated) 0
We are a society of stupid, and the stupid, it burns. It burns all of us.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Afterthought:
I was in a shop recently and said to the clerk, after a bit of banter, “I never thought I’d live to see the end of the American dream.”
But I have, and America did it to itself.
I am not sanguine.
Addendum:
QOTD 0
Kerry Greenwood:
Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn’t have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn’t want to go there.
Greenwood, Kerry, Raisins and Almonds (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2007). p. 161.
Unmasking the Maskless 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bree McEwan explores why some Americans are so dead (ahem!) set against wearing masks, despite that doing so is easy and painless, in these viral times.
Her article defies excerpt or summary and is worth the four minutes it will take you to read it.
Button, Button, Who’s Pushing the Buttons? 0
David warns those who would be rid of the Trumpler not to let Trump and the Trumpettes push their buttons.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are reminded once again that politeness is child’s play.
QOTD 0
Hugh Marlowe, in the voice of Ellery Queen:
(Warning: The link opens the radio episode entitled “The Three Frogs” at mysteryshows.com.)
Facebook Frolics, Jerks and Knees Dept. 0
In a thoughtful and well-reasoned editorial, my local rag unloaded on a local frolicker, one who is on a school board and has a political presence and who habitually spreads tommyrot and bilge.
Here’s a telling snippet from their editorial (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Path to Pariah 0
Seth takes stock of where we are in these viral times.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Awaken strangers politely.
The victim also said he saw two males across the pond after he was shot, one of them holding a “AR-15” rifle.
(snip)
The suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction and did not offer the victim any assistance.
For some fool reason (as my Daddy would have said), the report goes on to say that the fellow who was dozing in the chair was wearing camouflage, as if that is in any way relevant to anything.
Karen Karenlike 0
Karen knocks herself off the air.
Afterthought:
What I find most troubling about this sort of conduct is the gratuitous mean for the sake of mean of it all.
Cruelty must bring these sorts some type of pleasurable release.
In this, she also got released from her radio show.