2019 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
The Anointed 0
At AL.com, Dana Hall McCain meditates.
The Senders 0
In the aftermath of last week’s Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Daniel J. Winarick wonders about the characteristics of persons who would chant, “Send her back.”
Geeking Out 0
The Plasma Desktop with the Glowglass theme on Ubuntu MATE. The wallpaper is from my library.
Tutorials of Toxicity 0
Will Bunch, in the course of a long column about the spread of the Trump toxin through our polity, notes a particularly distressing incident involving a young girl in the audience behind Donald Trump at last week’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina. He suggests that Trump’s rallies are training seminars for hate and the hate-full:
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts.
Unconscious and Biased 0
At The Charlotte Observer, Aleta Payne compiles a list of occasion on which white persons treated her in a certain way simply because she is not-white. Here are a couple of examples; follow the link for the litany.
All the times the “inoffensiveness” of the Confederate flag has been explained to me as if I’d just been missing the nuance.
The time a coach gave my son, the only African American on the tennis team, a towel embroidered with the nickname “Cocoa Puff,” and I had to explain why that was a problem.
Metamorphosis 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., wonders whether the Republican Party is still a political party or has it become something else.