2020 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
And now for a moment of Zoom.
Villagers 0
Veteran reporter and editor Barry Golson visited Florida’s The Villages retirement community coincident with a Mike Pence rally and recounts his experiences.
It’s a fascinationg read. Here’s a tiny little bit:
My flashbacks strobing, I recall the San Genaro Festival, courtesy of The Godfather, where icons of the Virgin Mary were carried respectfully though cobblestoned streets. Maybe it’s just my roiling stomach, but I can’t help feeling I’m among the devoted. True believers.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
And here’s a special bonus automotive Trumpling.
Aside:
I feel like I’ve died and been transported back to April 1954.
Originalist Sin, Reprise 0
Thom and his caller discuss the logical and legal flaws in “Constitutional originalism.”
Twits on Twitter 0
Farron reminds us that what we see on “social” media is often not real (in addition to being unreal) and offers some hints as to how to spot the bots.
Lowering the Barr 0
Better Call Saul wouldn’t have dared to come up with a plot line like this.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, we would prop up cans on an old log in the back yard facing the wood that stretched between Pine View Farm and the salt marsh and practice shooting them. But we wouldn’t do any target practice during hunting season, because we knew that there might be hunters in the woods and that even .22 bullets can carry for a mile.
That was before “responsible gun owner” became an oxymoron.