June, 2017 archive
The Supremes 0
At The Roanoke Times, Keisha Graziadei-Shup offers a thoughtful meditation on the origins and fostering of feelings of supremacy, white or otherwise. A snippet:
Do I think evil is in everyone else but me?
The reality may be too horrible for most of us to face.
Second Amendment Delusions 0
Thom cuts through the contemporary rationales used by gun nuts and their sycophants and explains the historical origins of the Second Amendment.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Cement your friendships with politeness.
(snip)
Brown said one of the men was handling the gun inside a holster when it went off; he wasn’t wearing the holster at the time. There was no evidence of an altercation, police said.
All the News that Fits 0
El Reg discusses a report from Trend Micro, a reputable anti-virus and security firm, about the “Fake News” industry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added because even the fake may be faked):
A year-long campaign to influence election outcomes is available for just $400,000, the study says. Whether such listings are in themselves an attempt at disinformation is certainly debatable. US intel agencies, Western politicians and security firms are nigh-on unanimous that attempts to influence the US presidential election last year were the work of the Kremlin. For example, UK defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon recently said the Kremlin is “weaponising misinformation” as part of a sustained campaign that goes beyond alleged meddling in the presidential election.
Follow the link for more.
Also, if you saw a news item on Facebook etc. and nowhere else, be very very skeptical.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Dick Polman reflects on Attorney-General Sessions’s “testimony” before Congress yesterday. A nugget:
Follow the link to learn why he said that.
Under Cover of Darkness 0
Josh Marshall points out that
Follow the link for the full article.
Jonesing the Idiocracy 0
Tony Norman tries to make sense of Megan Kelly’s decision to have Alex Jones on her NBC television snow job show.
Remember, NBC is the network that gave you Donald Trump’s various Apprentices and is arguably responsible for the creating the myth that he knows what the hell he is doing.
(Spoiler Alert: Norman can’t make sense of it, because there’s no sense to be made.)