June, 2021 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Greet callers with politeness.
Officials say that Hankins came to Sharpf’s house that night and tried to knock on the side of the house to wake him up. Hankins did not announce himself before coming to the door and Sharpf thought an intruder was outside of the home.
While the rest of of the family was sleeping Sharpf went to the door and shot Hankins on the porch.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness should be demonstrated to patrons of the country club.
According to the press release, someone from Sedgefield Country Club reported that the “victim was dining outside on the patio when a stray bullet struck him in the head.”
In this case, the victim suffered only a superficial injury, but the story also states that, in the jurisdiction in question, the number of shootings of all types has skyrocketed. Of course, this could in no way be related to the number of guns in circulation or the number of persons who may be packing.
Also, pigs, wings.
“The Arc of Deductibles” 0
Thom talks with Wendell Potter about the current state of health insurance.
Visit Wendell Potter’s Center for Health and Democracy.
It’s Not the Labor that’s Short. It’s the Paychecks. 0
At the Des Moines Register, Maria Reppas remembers her time working in a restaurant and makes the case that small business owners (such as restaurants) are grousing about the wrong shortage. A snippet (emphasis added):
Instead of a mythical labor shortage, the United States has a livable wage shortage.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Aside:
In the 25 years or so that I lived in the Philadelphia area, I never saw news stories like this one. The Brandywine flood a foot or two, rendering Brandywine Park in Wilmington, Del., unusable for a day or so, but flooding U. S. 1?
Borderline Insanity 0
The Arizona Republic’s Elvira Diaz is fed up with right-wingers’ faux outrage over Vice President Harris’s decision to skip a meaningless photo op and, instead, do something substantive.
All the News that Fits 0
And that goes for the advertisements, too.
Limitations of Statues (Updated) 0
F. T. Rea reflects on the decision to remove the statue of Harry Byrd from the grounds of Richmond’s Capitol Square. He suspects that it may portend something larger than removing a remembrance of a racist political boss.
For those who don’t remember, which, these days, is likely most of us, Harry Byrd could best be described a Virginia’s own Mayor Daley. He ruled Virginia’s politics for half a century, much as Daley dominated Chicago, and was a central figure in Virginia’s “Massive Resistance” to desegregating schools in the 1950s.
Here’s a bit:
Addendum:
In a subsequent post, F. T. Rea expanded on his thoughts.