Author's archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
As I mentioned yesterday, they are “responsible gun owners” until all at once they are not.
Stray Thought 0
It is quite clear that the very very rich, ensconced in their multiple houses, ginormous yachts, and do-nothing sinecures, have no clue about what life is like for the rest of us.
Supply and Command 0
Badtux explores the shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE), explaining that it’s a result of an unprecedented and unplanned for spike in demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues convincingly that the responsibility lies in only one place: the office of the man who was repeatedly warned that the pandemic was coming and did nothing. A snippet (emphasis added):
These Modern Times 0
Nostalgic Afterthought:
When I was a young ‘un, it was always a big day when the Sears and Montgomery-Ward Christmas catalogs arrived in the mail.
They kept us out of our mother’s hair for hours.
“Define Your Terms” 0
Atrios defines “reopen the economy.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The dialectic of the oxymoron: They’re all “responsible gun owners” until they are not.
“Zoonodic” 0
Thom and his guest, Zach Corrigan, discuss how diseases can make the leap from animals to people.
Hoist on the Elmer Gantry 0
Above the Law looks at feedom of religion as practiced at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University.
My American Dickens 0
Though their styles are very different (Dickens, in particular, illustrates what can go wrong when writers are paid by the word), I must admit that Hemingway is my American Dickens. Though I’ve tried, I’ve never been able to finish anything he wrote.
Full Disclosure:
I have managed to read some of Dickens’s short stories, but I’ve never succeeded in wading through one of novels except for A Tale of Two Cities a la Classics Illustrated.
