Too Venal for Words category archive
Suffer the Children, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
One more time, “suffer the children” is not scripture. It’s a Republican family value.
Facebook Frolics 0
And, in more news of Facebook Frolics, some failed frolics.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
DOGE Bull 0
Ring of Fire discusses a whistleblower’s report that DOGE compromised almost every living American’s social security number by uploading them to the cloud.
Afterthought:
Just because someone knows how to make computers dance jigs, it doesn’t mean he or she knows how stuff works in the bigger wider world.
Q. E. D.
The Crypto Con Artists 0
Emma talks with Molly White, crypto and tech industry researcher, about the Trump family’s participation in the crypto con and about the larger con that is crypto.
You can visit Molly White’s website.
Aside:
Emma uses the phrase “cryto industry.” I guess, if an industry can be based on thin air and maintained by wishful thinking, that might be a valid phras–oh, never mind.
Vaccine Nation 0
Mike Littwin finds it alarming that we lack a vaccine against willful. malicious stupidity.
Vaccine Nation 0
Rebecca Watson looks at how anti-vax lies led to a mass shooting in Atlanta.
Or you can read the transcript.
Suffer the Children 0
In Lawrence County, Tennessee, it’s now against the rules for students to miss school because they are sick.
Under this policy, when I had measles (it was before the measles vaccine, when I was in the fourth grade, not after RFK Jr.), I could have been “referred to” the court for being home sick with a fever, for Pete’s sake.
We are a society in regress.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy: Nathaniel Ross Kelly, who ran an orphanage in Sudan for five years, writes of the how the Trump maladministration’s decision to destroy USAID is likely to affect needy children arouond the world.
Republican Family Values 0
As we know, “suffer the children” is a Republican family value.
The Crypto Con 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dennis Jett explores the Trump family’s affection for the crypto con. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Running the Government like a Business 0
Apparently, Donald Trump thinks that he has the power to sell U. S. residency and maybe even citizenship to the highest bidder.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Richard Pan looks at RFK Jr.’s record at HHS and concludes that it–er–does not inspire confidence.