October, 2017 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
An outbreak of politeness in Prince William County.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Hate-full mail. Follow the link for the complete article.
She noticed a piece of mail with “Proud American” scrawled above her address. Her family has an American flag hanging outside, she said, so Dunphy, home alone and curious, ripped open the envelope.
“As soon as I opened the envelope, my jaw hit the ground,” said Terri Kiral-Kuenzer, 56, of Pennsburg, who also received a flier. “Who could have done this?”
Inside the hand-addressed envelopes were fliers that contained racist, white supremacist, and anti-Semitic messages, drawings, and quotes from Adolf Hitler.
Junta Hijinks 0
Dick Polman explains. A snippet:
More at the link.
Facebook Frolics 1
Josh Marshall reports on monopolistic frolics:
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Party politely.
“A nine-millimeter handgun was being handled and the gun went off and the one round that was fired did strike a 3-year-old in the arm,” said Sgt. Jason Nielsen, Sandy Police Department. “The 28-year-old father was struck in the leg with the same bullet.”
Falsified Flags 0
QOTD 0
Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker:
Television has become the petri dish in which the country developes its idiots.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
It’s the last full week of October and I’m running the freaking air conditioner, for Pete’s sake.
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, the trees would have already have lost their leaves and I’d be wearing winter coats by now.
We are doomed.
“Think of the Bakeries” 0
Redacted Tonight discusses how the religious right is attempting to leverage the recent hurricanes so it can suckle at the public teat.
Warning: Language.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Elie Mystal takes a stroller through the dysfunction that is contemporary American air travel.
Whinestein 0
Also at the Inky, Will Bunch excoriates Harvey Weinstein’s farcical attempt to attribute his predations on the 1960s. A snippet:
The biggest difference in sexual abuse — by family members, “trusted” adults, bosses, or the otherwise powerful — before the arrival of the 1960s and ’70s was that victims were more likely to suffer in silence, increasing their trauma. As for those changing “rules” that Weinstein clings to as his excuse, the only real rule changes that mattered that came from the early 1970s were the ideas that women had a right to more freedom, more respect and greater opportunity in the workplace and in every other social arena that mattered.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the increase of racial incidents in schools in the Philadelphia metropolitan area since November of last year. A snippet:
“Things like that give the white nationalists a green light,” Simmons said.
Nancy Baron-Baer, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it’s hard to know whether the recent outbreak of racist incidents in area schools represents an actual uptick.
“It may be that people who are taunting, people who are performing hate crimes seemingly have become emboldened over the last 12 to 15 months,” said Baron-Baer. “It may be those that are the victims or opposed to that behavior feel that they must speak out.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is de riguer at one’s local public house.
