2020 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another responsible gun owner greets the neighbors.
The bullet went right through the shared wall of the Forest Avenue condo building and hit the toddler’s foot. The bullet also hit a mattress that Noah’s older brother had slept on the night before.
Blinders 0
Farhad Manjoo uses the spread of the coronavirus–more precisely, the spread of misinformation and hysteria and outright falsehoods about the coronavirus–to highlight a larger problem: the failure to pay attention to and heed what science and scientists have to say about real things happening in the real world.
Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Our collective inability to communicate about science has thoroughly perverted our politics. Because science has become so deeply intertwined with partisan dogma, people’s very conception of scientific expertise has been hijacked by tribal reflex. Today, a lot of people seem to determine how much they trust scientists based on their political ideas, which is backward and bizarre.
Down on the (Animal) Farm 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times has read his Orwell.
And the Moral of the Story Is . . . . 0
PoliticalProf reminds us that
Follow the link to read why he said that.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Expose your children to politeness at an early age.
Police say a 2-year-old child got a hold of a gun and shot his 4-year-old brother in the abdomen.
The extent of the 4-year-old’s injuries are unknown, but he was taken to a Springfield hospital for treatment. Police said the mother was home when he was shot.
It Takes Two To Tango 0
As Atrios points out, you can’t be bipartisan by yourself.
