July, 2021 archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Seth comments on how Fox News foments freak-outs from falsities and, in so doing, perpetuates the pandemic.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to other drivers.
The truck driver was not hurt, but the incident damaged the vehicle, the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office said. The shooting was reported when the driver reached Tennessee, but Arkansas authorities say they just learned of the crime after the trucking company downloaded the video.
This is the second time an incident like this has been reported in the last two months.
Karen Karen-Like 0
A Karen phones it in.
Vaccine Nation 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
Don’t Believe the Hype 0
Artificial intelligence is indeed artificial, but it’s not intelligent.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Officers responded at around 7 p.m. to the 2300 block of East MacArthur and located the 30-year-old man who had a gunshot wound to his leg. The girl’s hand was also injured. Their injuries were not life-threatening.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
The Surgeon-General calls out the role of “social” media in spreading disinformation about COVID-19. A nugget (emphasis added):
He went on to note that social media algorithms often target users by pushing posts similar to ones that the user has interacted with in the past, “putting us deeper and deeper into a well of misinformation.”
Cooking the Books 0
F. T. Rea remembers the whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) of Southern history.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Honest to Pete, you’d think he was old enough to know better.
Know-Nothings Redux 0
The editors of The Roanoke Times paired this image with a column by Leonard Pitts, Jr., who points out that
So how did it become this sudden four-alarm fire in the house of democracy? The answer is depressingly simple. It is this year’s War on Christmas. It’s sharia law, gay wedding cake, and New Black Panthers. Which is to say, it is this year’s spur by which the white right, more easily stampeded than a herd of cattle by a lightning strike, is prodded to feel resentful, frightened and besieged — and vote accordingly.
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