2020 archive
Collateral Damage 0
Anyone who has been paying attention has heard reports of persons whose health and livelihood are threatened by the Trump administration’s attempts to destroy the United States Post Office; reports that veterans are not receiving prescription refills from the VA in time have been the most common.
But did you also know that Trumpling the Post Office has also led to cruelty to animals?
Henderson, who owns and operates Pine Tree Poultry, a family farm and chicken meat processing facility that specializes in chicken pot pies, said all 800 chicks sent from a hatchery in Pennsylvania were dead.
Much more at the link.
Aside:
I remember my father, when I was very young and he was still farming, receiving shipments of chicks via railroad postal cars.
What Has Trump Done for Women? 0
Amber Ruffin enumerates.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
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The friend who was chatting with the boy noticed something was not right during the interaction. The friend and their father went to the home and found the boy deceased, Nichols said.
Words fail me.
Words Matter 0
At the Inky, the Angry Grammarian welcomes a trend towards accuracy, in particular, towards describing racist conduct as “racist,” rather than softening said conduct with mealy-mouth euphemisms. Follow the link for his reasoning.
Unpresidented 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy opines that Donald Trump’s comparing himself favorably to Teddy Roosevelt, like much of what Donald Trump says, flies in the face of fact. Here’s a bit of his article:
That is the second time this summer that someone has compared Donald Trump to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. Back in July, as South Dakota governor Kristi Noem introduced Trump prior to his speech at Mt. Rushmore, she likened him to Teddy Roosevelt as a man who “braves the dangers of the arena.”
I have recently read two Theodore Roosevelt biographies and, to paraphrase 1988 vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, “Mr. President, you’re no Teddy Roosevelt.”
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A polite Trumpling.
Much more at the link.
“We’re All in the Same Boat” 0
And, at Psychology Today Blogs, Justine Mastin and Larissa Garski wonder whether said boat is the Titanic. A bit:
Similarly, the western world has considered itself to be an unsinkable ship. And we have ignored all the warnings issued to us about looming icebergs. We are unsinkable, we believe, and these warnings do not apply to us. There is no more time for debate about whether or not the ship is unsinkable. We are sinking. We are taking on the waters of climate change and plague, the waters of hate and totalitarianism, and the waters of frigid cold shock. We must confront our magical thinking and acknowledge that it was and is a cognitive distortion.
