January, 2018 archive
Status Anxiety 0
Atrios has a theory.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Robert Boyd explains Jim Crow 2.0.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family affair.
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The Springfield News-Leader reports that the release says an adult guest at the home unknowingly dropped the gun.
Hey, Mr. Responsible Gun Owner, how do you “unknowingly” drop a gun?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Solomon Jones finds it–let’s see–willfully blind that in the face of a lifetime of Donald Trump’s racist behavior some persons are only just now discovering Donald Trump’s racism. He suggests that those who do not speak out against the Trumpling are ipso facto complicit in it. A snippet:
In truth, Trump’s racism is profoundly American, because America is a racist country.
Racism built America’s wealth through brutal African enslavement. Racism supported the subjugation of black sharecroppers after the Civil War. Racism drove home the Jim Crow laws designed to create a permanent black underclass. Racism was enforced through state-sanctioned violence carried out by lynch mobs and police.
That is the true history of race in America, and in some ways, not much has changed. If we are ready to face that truth as a country united for justice, we can move forward. But if America continues to paint racism as a figment of black peoples’ fertile imaginations, our country will never change.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Shaun Mullen explores how the Trumpling has routinized racism (once again, as it was routine before).
Cat Check 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite at parties.
An accidental shooting at a party in Southeast Rochester leads to one woman being hospitalized.
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Police say a male was handling a long gun when it fired and struck Ijong.
My opinion is that males should not play with their portable penises–or, for that matter, any other penises–in the presence of others.
Furrfu.
Afterthought:
Notice how a man becomes a “male” and a child becomes a “juvenile” and a woman becomes a “female” in police-speak?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Commit random acts of politeness.
Whatever happened to “Make sure never to point a gun at anyone”?
The Republican Debase 0
James G. Blaine asks the question:
Follow the link to find out whether he has an answer for it (hint: not really).