The Acolytization Process 0
At the Psychology Today website, John Tsilimparis notes that “(a) cult is categorized by a strict, hierarchical system of totalistic authority.” He then goes on to explore how that authority is perpetuated.
Go read his article and consider whether it reminds you in any way of any current political phenomena.
Big Brother Business, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
Meta employees caught in a mousetrap.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom wonders, “What happens when a President stops following the Constitution?”
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Bruce Schneier:
Follow the link for the backstory.
Republican Thought Police 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino takesa deep look at the Trump maladministration’s campaign against the American Bar Association. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):
Afterthought:
“Ideologically hostile” indeed.
Ideologically hostile to the rule of lawless maybe.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Psychology Today website, Christopher Lane discusses a recent book by Kira Ganga Kieffer, in which Kieffer explores whether (some) vaccine hesitancy in the U. S. may have religious roots.
In these times of measles outbreaks and other incipient infections, methinks his article is worth a look.
All the News that Fits 0
David dissects the torrent of lies that a Fox News host is able to cram into a 41 second clip. (Short promo at the end.)
Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.
And, while we’re on the subject . . . .
Case Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that, in its effort to gut out the vote, the Trump maladministration’s Department of (in)Justice “can’t keep its own cases straight.”
An Ode to the Artist of the Con 0
- There’s a reason they’re called “con artists.”
Verily the proof of their art is
When they can take home vast profits
Simply by picking their own pockets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.
Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.
Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner decides to expose his portable phallus.
Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.