June, 2021 archive
“If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0
LZ Granderson ponders on the reasons for opposing the discussion of critical race theory. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Afterthought:
I’m a Southern boy.
I had ancestors who held (as the expression goes) slaves.
I don’t feel guilty about it, because I wasn’t there. But I will be damned if I will participate in excusing or exculpating or whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) their sin.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s something almost poetic about the politeness . . . .
The two pulled over into a parking lot, and at some point during that confrontation, the driver of the truck fired a shot and accidentally hit himself.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell explores how Florida’s governor managed to pander to the prejudiced and procure plaudits from right-wing media while changing practically nothing. Maxwell looks at a recently passed Florida law that purportedly requires employers to check the legal status of job applicants using the federal “E-Verify” system, except when it doesn’t. A nugget (emphasis added):
“But There’s No Other Possible Explanation” 0
In the December issue of Psychology Today, Jennifer Latson explores why smart people can believe dumb things, such as the notion that
- 5G cell towers cause COVID-19;
- the January 6 invaders of the Capitol were “Antifa crisis actors” pretending to be Trump supporters; and
- honesty about this nation’s racist history causes more racism.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
All the News that Fits 0
We are a society of stupid.
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Devolution 0
At The Hartford Courant, a Connecticut resident who wintered in Florida worries that we all are turning into Florida Man. A snippet:
