March, 2017 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate politeness to the young.
An 8-year-old Whitney girl died Thursday night after she was accidentally shot in the head.
Hill County deputies were sent at about 8:20 p.m. to a home in the 2000 block of Farm-to-Market Road 1534 after a caller reported a child had been shot, a news release from the sheriff’s office says.
Palate Cleanser 0
I remember the McGuire Sisters as regulars on the Arthur Godfrey radio show, which aired at 10:00 a. m. weekdays on CBS.
Buck Hunting 0
Noz goes looking for where the buck stops.
Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Robert Reich discusses Donald Trump’s proposed budget. Some excerpts:
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. . . unnecessarily cruel.
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. . . unnecessarily cruel.
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. . . unnecessarily cruel.
Follow the link to see why he says that.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Surround your children with politeness.
“I don’t even feel safe to go out in the summertime to work back in my backyard because bullets has no eyes,” Barr said.
Tuesday night deputies were called to a home on Wards Gap Road where three children live with their parents. A 9-year-old girl had been shot through the arm by a 9-mm pistol. Investigators say another child and a parent were cleaning the hand gun when it accidentally fired.
Neighbors say they’ve called the sheriff’s office many times before this accident.
Homer Had the Catalog of Ships.
Trump Has the Catalog of Lies.
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TPM catalogs the biggest lies in Trump’s Time Magazine interview.
Image via C&L, which explores the ways in which conservatives strive to avoid and deny the truth about the Trumpling of America. (Excerpt below the fold.)
Phoning It In 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
But a judge who heard the case at Court Number 1 in Almeria, came down firmly on the side of the mother declaring that “evidently” she was “well within her rights” and took “the correct action” as a responsible parent.
American Taliban 0
At the Boston Review, Richard White turns the light of history on the spurious claim that “America was founded as a Christian nation” in considering two recent books on the topic. He points out that those who make such a claim almost always do so in pursuit of a particular political and economic agenda, rather than in pursuit of salvation.
Here’s a bit of his discussion of Steven Green’s Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding:
The various forms are important; the original myth is not the same as the one currently in fashion. Both see God’s guiding hand behind the nation’s history and regard Christianity as the basis of republican principles. The old myth, however, was optimistic and tried to be inclusive, which was possible in what was still an overwhelmingly Protestant country. It was oriented toward the future and intent on explaining a providential American destiny. The new myth, by contrast, is sectarian and divisive in a country full of Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, etc., not to mention agnostics, atheists, and the sometimes-inchoate mass who define themselves as spiritual. Rather than look to tomorrow, today’s myth appeals to those who think they have lost an ideal past.
Do read please read the rest. It will help you better understand our home-grown Pharisees.
In the Court of the Crimson Orange King
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I’ve wondered for a while whether Trump thought he was elected king, not president. Werner Herzog’s Bear seems to share that wonder. An excerpt from his post:
