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April, 2021 archive

A Tune for the Times 0

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Masks 0

Frame One, titled

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Tidal Basin waves.

H/T to my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck for the link.

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They’ve Got Him on the Camera 0

Florida Man.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Title:  Arguments against Vaccination.  Image:  Maga-Hatted man says,

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Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . . 0

Chris Appleton comments on Georgia’s now (anti-)voting law. An excerpt:

It was June 9, 2020 that I watched the Georgia election process melt down — a day of embarrassment for our state. I saw in my own community long lines in the hot Georgia sun which drove potential voters away. Our Southeast Atlanta neighbors stood in line up to six hours waiting to vote. Rather than let voters wait in misery — parched, hungry, cranky — I joined my neighbor John Gibson as we brought fresh baked cookies, bottled water, and chairs for people to sit in. Rather than let the hot, sweaty, bureaucratic mess push away potential voters, we made sure folks were comfortable and able to fulfill their civic duty.

What we did on that day will now be illegal if these new election rules stay in place.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

As we all know, politeness takes practice.

Police say the incident was a ‘horrible accident’ that happened when high school senior, Candace, met up with three other friends to shoot targets, and she handed her gun to a friend when it stopped working.

But the .22 pistol went off as the unnamed friend tried to fix it, and a bullet hit Candace in the head, according to Carroll County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Hulsey.

When I was a young ‘un plunkin’ tin cans down on the farm, the first rule of gun safety my Daddy taught was don’t point the damn gun at anything you don’t want to shoot.

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QOTD 0

William Finnegan:

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

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Geeking Out 0

The Plasma desktop on Mageia v. 7. The wallpaper is from my collection.

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Disunited States 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear mulls over Republicans’ “culture war” strategy, first wielded with effectiveness by Richard Nixon, and the implications of said strategy. Here’s a bit; the entire article is well-worth the three or four minutes it will take for you to read it (emphasis added).

….it also emerged this week that the Republicans are planning a political strategy based on the culture war, as opposed to policy. Some have mocked this, but I see it merely as the continuation of the one reliable strategy Republicans have had for the past fifty years. Some are puzzled that they are calling themselves a “working class party” while failing to do anything to materially improve people’s lives. They forget that the Nixon strategy depends on resentment, on saying Republicans are protecting good people against the elites. They don’t mean the economic elite, whom they wish to shower with tax breaks, but the “cultural elite.” Anti-university, anti-trans, anti-environmentalism, and anti-anti-racism all fit into this.

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Freeloaders 0

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“We’re the Victims Here” 0

David discusses what’s behind the right-wing notion of “cancel culture.”

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Show politeness to others on the roads.

According to MPD (Memphis, TN, Police Dept.–ed.) on Thursday, a woman reported she was driving was driving northbound on Semmes when a silver Acura entered her lane of travel, causing a collision.

MPD said the male driver of the Acura exited his vehicle with an unknown caliber handgun and walked to the victim’s passenger side door. When the suspect opened the passenger’s side door, the victim exited and fled westbound on foot.

The suspect reportedly fired five shots into the victim’s front driver’s side door then left the scene southbound on Semmes.

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“Freedom for Me, but Not for Thee” 0

David Frum elucidates; follow the link for the full article (emphasis added):

The QAnon-curious Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed the new mentality when she took to Facebook to denounce vaccine passports as “corporate communism.” It sounded crazy. But if you understand that she interprets communism to mean “any interference in the right of people like me to do whatever we want, regardless of the rights of others”—then, yeah, the property rights of corporations will indeed look to her like a force of communism.

Via BlueDelaware.

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Playing Doctor 0

Two kids on bench on a sidewalk.  Little boy says to little girl,

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Kenneth L. Pike:

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

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Thermometer Twerps 0

He took his stand on Disney’s Land.

The stupid. It burns.

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“But There Can Be No Other Explanation . . . .” 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Thomas Henricks explores why some persons are susceptible to conspiracy theories. Here’s a bit of one factor he discusses; follow the link for the full article.

Participation in virtual worlds is another form of this self-chosen commitment. In that light, New York Times technology writer Kevin Roose compares involvement in online conspiracy theories to play in massive multiplayer online games. Conspiracy sites invite people to co-create and sustain a shared, alternative reality. Featured there are recurring characters ? heroes, villains, and fools ? for the viewer to savor. Storylines ebb and flow. There are challenges to decode messages and solve mysteries. Participants seek to be “in the know” and to pass on, via social media, their insights to others. Strangers get to know and trust one another, albeit through the safety of distanced communication. Players sense that they are part of something much bigger, and more daring, than the circumstances of their ordinary lives.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Apologetic twits.

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Louie Gohmert Is Left Holding the Bag 0

Ya know, I think Alby has a point.

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