Culture Warriors category archive
Frozen 0
At the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Tom Horner suggests that it’s time for Texas to man up and take some responsibility for itself.
Image via Juanita Jean.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu comments on Iowa legistors’ attempts to keep information from the New York Times’ 1619 Project out of public schools. She finds that effort particularly disheartening because the project was led by a black woman from Iowa.
A snippet:
One more time, heaven forbid that American students learn what life was really like in ye olde South.
The Disinformation Superhighway, Short Attention Span Theatre Dept. 0
One man saw it coming.
He even foresaw “influencers.”
An excerpt from Charlie Warzel’s article about him in last Sunday’s New York Times (emphasis added):
In June 2006, when Facebook was still months from launching its News Feed, Mr. Goldhaber predicted the grueling personal effects of a life mediated by technologies that feed on our attention and reward those best able to command it. “In an attention economy, one is never not on, at least when one is awake, since one is nearly always paying, getting or seeking attention.”
War on Christmas Redux 0
David looks at Republicans’ responses to criticisms of Marjorie Taylor Greene and suggests that “cancel culture” is the new “war on Christmas.” (Warning: Short commercial at the six minute mark.)
A Tune for the Times 0
H/T to my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Myth, Busted 0
At the Des Moines Register, Walter Suza explains that the Old West was nothing like what we were taught from movies and television shows and Zane Grey novels. Here’s a bit:
(snip)
The conflict between white and Native Americans was about land. Native Americans’ land.
White settlers wanted the land and would kill to obtain it, and the Native Americans were willing to die to protect their land.
Craven Images 0
Franklin Graham renders unto Caesar.
“A Lightbulb Moment” 0
Sam and his crew discuss how conservatives suddenly see the light.
Mob Fuel 0
Nassir Ghaemi, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, explores the psychology of the current federal administrator and of his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, and the interaction between them led to riot and destruction.
I’ll not paraphrase or excerpt it. I just commend it to your attention.
The Doctor Is In, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Audrey Nelson, Ph. D., remembers a moment:
Follow the link to see how she relates this to the recent devaluation of Dr. Jill Biden’s doctorate.
Maskless Marauders 0
Let me put this circumspectly.
Aside:
Not to change the subject, but the petulant pestilence cheapens everything that he touches.
The Doctor Is In 0
David digs into the brou-ha-ha about the absolute gall and effrontery of Jill Biden’s having earned a doctoral degree.
War Correspondence 0
In a fascinating read full of history that may surprise you (some of it certainly did surprise me), Charles Ludington reviews the history of Christmas as a celebration, as well as explores its use as a political weapon by the right-wing. A nugget:
Parler Tricks 0
One more time, the internet is a public place.
Aside:
From what I’ve heard–I’m sure not going to find out for myself–Parler is such a sloppy operation that his account very well could have been impersonated, if not actually hacked.
