May, 2021 archive
They Can’t Handle the Truth . . . 0
. . . so they want to make it go away.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and his guest, Dr. Michael Luo, discuss the roots and history of American bigotry against Asians in general and Chinese and Japanese in particular.
The Noaccount Recount 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini responds to those question why he opposes the Arizona’s Senate’s “recount” of Maricopa County’s Presidential election results, if he believes (as he does) that there was no tomfoolery in the first place. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
David argues that Fox News is floundering for falsehoods to flog.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Sasha Abramsky rounds up a list of new liberty limits from around the nation and considers the implications thereof. A snippet:
Where I used to live, I had neighbors who regularly volunteered as poll workers. It meant 16-hour days, which they gave freely because they believed in democratic ideals and the concept of the common good, things the Republican Party appears to have abandoned.
Suffer the Children 0
A sadistic shopper:
Aside:
Am I the only one to see a contradiction in the last two sentences of the excerpt.
Malcontent in the Middle 0
Badtux has a theory why, after many persons have been productively working from home for the past year, corporate managements are pushing for a return to the office (for example). He suggests that much of middle management fears being revealed as–er–less than relevant.
Having spent my career in corporate America, methinks he may be onto something.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Drive with politeness.
The child was sitting in a booster seat in the right rear passenger side of his mother’s car when he was struck by the gunfire on the northbound 55 near Chapman Avenue around 8 a.m., according to CHP Officer Florentino Olivera.
Yet another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
It’s Bubblelicious, The Origins Issue 0
Thom looks back at the inception of the right-wing think tank bubble.
