2019 archive
The History We Want vs. the History We Have 0
Sam Osherson mediates of the gap between history and reality in the tales (white) Americans tell themselves about American history. Here’s a bit:
Yet if you’ve been paying attention lately, there’s been some disturbing news. Professor Jill Lepore’s recent history of the United States, These Truths, for example, is organized around our country’s involvement with slavery from before we were even the United States, a “deep and dark” relationship, in which Jefferson, Madison, and George Washington owned slaves even while they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” and have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Incarceration Nation 0
Bruce Lowry says, “Follow the money.”
The Internet of Strings 0
So you still think that the connected home is a good thing?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness has a senior moment.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Why would someone need a gun in a old folks’ home? Is someone cheating at bingo?
We are a society of stupid.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Inappropriate and misappropriate both:
Suckering the Suckers 0
Mike Brooks takes a look why people take the click-bait. A snippet:
Those clickbait headlines make us curious to see what’s behind the curtain, so to speak. To quote the sagacious, Forrest Gump, who was quoting his mother, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.”
“The New Gotchas” 0
Thom discusses the latest medical scam: Surprise Billing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And yet another gun fires itself . . . .
Dorian Deeds 0
Despite the narrative from the Weather Channel, my newspaper delivery person somehow managed to deliver my newspaper.
Afterthought:
This is in no way to disparage those who have suffered damage from the storm.
It is in every way to contemn the hysterical Dorian hurricane porn perpetrated by televised media.