Politics of Hate category archive
A Picture Is Worth 2
Image via Juan Cole.
Aside:
It is ironic that, if (when?) this country goes to hell, it will be persons who loudly proclaim themselves “Christian” who lead it there.
Walkering Back to the Gilded Age 0
James Causey details Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest ploy to humiliate the have-nots.
Paris 0
If you want to follow events in Paris, you will probably get the best English-language coverage at TheLocal.
“People of the Book” 0
In the Guardian, Gayatri Devi suggests that persons who pound the Bible should take a break and read a bit of it. A snippet:
(snip)
Do fundamentalist readers hear the hope and humanity of the ark myth and connect it to the specter of poverty, suffering and degradation in the wastelands of our great nation? Or do they, like Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry, read natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina and the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, as God giving them the green signal for the Christian Right to take control of our government?
The Art of Appeal 0
Keith Larson thinks he has uncovered the secret of Donald Trump’s success and sums it up in two words.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., decodes de code.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Proposed headline: Hen House Strikes Back at Fox.
Fox News was found in breach of British broadcast code that says, “Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience.”
More at the link.
“Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves” 2
Wisconsin Republicans seek new ways to punish the poor for being.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Facebook Frolics 0
Forwarded frolics, yes sir, right here in River City.
And the readers react. (I can’t find a way to link to the topic and I’m too lazy to link to each one, so by tomorrow they will be off the front page,* but, boy, are they a hoot. Most of them are horrible hoots, but hoots nonetheless.
Persons’ pretzel logic to rationalize their bigotry can astound. I wonder who many of them realize that their reasoning amounts to
if a = b then c = Waldorf salad?
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*A search should turn up most of them.