A Tune for the Time 0
Warning: Short promo at about the one minute mark.
All the News that Fits 0
Josh Gay delights in a rare event: A Fox News apology. And he notes a number of times when Fox has–er–broadcast “news” reports of questionable veracity without facing a requirement to accept responsibility for facilitating fabrications.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.
Another portable phallus left lying about.
Another child.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
Checks and Balances
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I think that the Supreme Supremacist Court’s reasoning in this case is quite clear.
“Well,” said the injustices, “we already have an executive that’s unbalanced. Let’s go all the way and have one that’s unchecked.”
Stray Thought 0
RFK Jr. would be very disappointed in me.
I got two vaccinations yesterday.
Because, golly gosh gee, I believe in factual knowledge.
American Exceptionalism 0
David discusses a Pew poll that shows the exceptional damage that the Trump maladministration has done to America’s international reputation in little more than a year. A quote:
Being feared is not the same thing as being respected.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner.”
Yet another portable phallus exposed to a child.
Yet another life ended too soon.
Yet another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Republican Thought Police 0
North Carolina legislators just pushed through anti-DEI legislation over the governor’s veto. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Executive Director of Intergovernmental Relations Charles Jeter describes it as a “solution in search of a problem” and fears those problems. A snippet (emphasis added):
That gray area, he said, may hamstring educators or school districts.
“They give definitions, but the definitions in and of themselves are interpretable by different people,” Jeter told the Observer. “That’s the concern: it’s the unintended consequences.”
War and Mongers of War 0
Via The Japan Times, history professor Timothy Snyder looks at Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran and concludes:
This is what happens when voters entrust entertainers to wage war and profiteers to negotiate peace.
Follow the link for his reasons for saying that.
Vaccine Nation 0
Inaction has consequences. So does willful ignorance.
We are a society of stupid.