May, 2019 archive
Watch What They Do, Not What They Say 0
Shorter Law Vegas Sun editorial: Actions speak louder than words.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Freedom of Screech 0
The Des Moines Register’s Kathie Obradovich explains how “freedom of speech” and “freedom of religion” have become right-wing Newspeak for freedom to discriminate.
“True Enough” 0
David and his guest, Harvard professor Nancy Rosenblum, discuss the malignancy of “conspiracism” and its appeal to the culpable gullible.
Connectivity 0
Afterthought:
Sometimes, when I walk into a restaurant and see four persons all seated at a table with their heads buried in their phones, I can’t help but wonder, “Why the hell did they bother going out together?”
“Legislative Thuggery” 0
Usury 0
My local rag has an article recounting the stories of Virginians caught in the spiderweb of “payday lenders.”
I got nothing to add. Just read it.
Gird Your Grid for the Big One 0
Mike warns that we are again facing a Great and Glorious War for a Lie in a Country with a Name that Starts with “I” and discusses the long history of U. S. and British meddling in Iran. Some of his analogies may seem a bit extreme, but I wonder . . . .
The video is below the fold because of language and the possibility of autoplay.
