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July, 2020 archive

Path to Pariah 0

Seth takes stock of where we are in these viral times.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Awaken strangers politely.

The victim told police that he was sleeping on a chair in the wooded area east of Peach Mountain Road near a pond when he woke to the sound of gunshots and was struck in the leg by a small caliber round.

The victim also said he saw two males across the pond after he was shot, one of them holding a “AR-15” rifle.

(snip)

The suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction and did not offer the victim any assistance.

For some fool reason (as my Daddy would have said), the report goes on to say that the fellow who was dozing in the chair was wearing camouflage, as if that is in any way relevant to anything.

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Carved in (Roger) Stone 0

Image One:  The Supreme Court, with

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Karen Karenlike 0

Karen knocks herself off the air.

Afterthought:

What I find most troubling about this sort of conduct is the gratuitous mean for the sake of mean of it all.

Cruelty must bring these sorts some type of pleasurable release.

In this, she also got released from her radio show.

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Facebook Frolics, What the F? Dept. 0

Image:  The Facebook

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QOTD 0

Julian Huxley:

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

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A Taxonomy of Terribles 0

Title:  Faces of the Maskless.  Frame One:  Obliviots, not really thinking about it.  Tendency to form gaggles.  Frame Two:  The Politicizer (Armed man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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Not with a (Big) Bang, but with a Whimper 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear is not sanguine.

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“B-B-But No Other Explanation Makes Sense” 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, David Ludden explores recent research as to the varied reasons why some persons adhere to conspiracy theories that are plainly absurd in the light of pesky things like “facts,” “knowledge,” and “logic.” Here’s one element he cites; follow the link for the full discussion.

For instance, people who believe the Earth is flat or that the government is controlled by lizard people from outer space don’t derive any sort of social identity from their beliefs. Rather, they see themselves as special because they’re privy to knowledge that non-believers don’t have or are unwilling to accept.

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Facebook Frolics, Vector of Viral Venality Dept. 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Orlando Sentinel, Ediberto Roman and Joshua Killingsworth remind us not to forget about Donald Trump’s Republican Family Values.

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Tripping on the Guilting 0

Bill Nemitz reports on what happened when, on a lark, he signed up for the “Team Trump” mailing list. It was not quite what he expected. A snippet:

Curious about what they were up to, I clicked on the “find out more” button, which prompted a request for my email address, which I provided.

What I expected was a window into the messaging being deployed by the Trumps to propel the president to a second term – increasingly unlikely as that appears to be. What I got was a guilt trip, day after day, for not doing as I’m told.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Advocate for your political views in a polite manner.

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QOTD 0

Robert K. Merton:

Scientific research is not conducted in a social vacuum.

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The Victim 0

Donald Trump sitting on hospital bed in a COVID ward to man on ventilator:  Can you believe how persecuted I am!

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Facebook Frolics, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0

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The Cancellator-in-Chief 0

In an article at the Inky exploring the grammatical and psychological (psycho-grammatical? gramma-psychological?) reason the phrase, “cancel culture,” has caught on so quickly, Jeffrey Barg notes the irony of Donald Trump’s recent screed against “cancel culture.” Here’s a nugget; follow the link for the rest.

There’s plenty of irony in Trump calling out cancel culture when, for 14 seasons as host of The Apprentice, he swiftly canceled hundreds of contestants with his most famous catchphrase, “You’re fired.” And in separate articles this week, the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell and CNN’s Daniel Dale chronicled the many times that Donald Trump has recommended cancellation of everything from NBC to Joe Scarborough to Karl Rove to Apple.

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Facebook Frolics, No Russian to Judgement Here Dept. 0

Picture of Vladimir Puting firing

The image above accompanies an article at The Roanoke Times in which Rupert Cutler, long-time public servant, warns us that Russia is cranking up its bot nets to do it again.

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Doubling Down on Doubling Down 0

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Envious 0

Vladimir Putin holding a sign reading

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