March, 2021 archive
Vaccine Nation 0
The Rude One discusses an encounter with an acquaintance who declared that she was not going to get the COVID vaccine, citing all the “concerns” fomented by the right-wing disinformation complex. Here’s a bit of his piece:
Follow the link for the rude rest.
Confluence 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Glenn Gerber takes a look at the recent shootings in Georgia and argues that attempts to find a single reason for them are wrong-headed and futile. He suggests that several factors contributed to them:
- America’s Gun Problem
- Systemic Racism
- Systemic Sexism (and possibly–ed.)
- Mental Health Issues
Follow the link for his detailed exploration of each one.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The slaveholders lost the war, but won the peace, and they are determined not to let go.
QOTD 0
Caroline Graham, in the voice of Cully Barnaby:
I’ve no problem with with people who are insincerely pleasant. It’s the sincerely unpleasant who get up my nose.
Graham, Caroline, A Ghost in the Machine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), p. 221.
Treadmill 0
The Seattle Time’s Danny Westneat writes that, for him at least, the honeymoon with working from home is over. A snippet:
(snip)
The reality of remote work seems, to me, kind of like when people got smart home devices like Alexa in order to access the internet, but it turned out it was the device that was accessing them. Who is it really benefiting?
Recommended Listening 0
Kings, Queens, and Pawns, the Librivox audio book recording of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s memoir of her experiences as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post on the Belgian front during World War I.