December, 2021 archive
Courting Disaster 0
A former federal prosecutor expresses his concern that some judges, including some on the nation’s highest court, are undermining the rule of law. Here’s a bit of his article:
“Inside the Trump Hate Tunnel” 0
Congressperson Debbie Dingell discusses the voicemails she has been receiving from Trump supporters for over two years.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
Rand Gestures 0
Rand Paul reveals Democrats dastardly designs (emphasis added):
More dastardliness detailed at the link.
Natural Selection 0
Jim Wright warns that, if, against all the indications of science and experience, persons choose to tempt fate, fate just might choose to succumb to the temptation.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
As we all know, politeness takes practice.
School Daze 0
At the Washington Monthly, Jonathan Zimmerman looks at the conflicts regarding, critical race theory (which, again, is not taught in primary and secondary schools); library books and reading lists; and curricula that is currently bubbling at many local school boards and puts them under a macro-Scopes.
She Did Her Own Research on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
In a long article which I stumbled across at Boston.com, New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise takes a look at the furor over mask and vaccination mandates, lockdowns, and other measures intended to stem the spread of the pandemic. She talked with a number of researchers who suggest that much larger cultural forces are feeding the conflict. Given that we are facing wave number [mumble] of infections even as a large portion of the populace seems to embrace Typhoid Mary as a role model, the whole piece is worth a read.
What particularly caught my eye, though, was a snapshot of what happens when persons who don’t know how to do research (who don’t know, for example, how to vet sources, interpret data, or differentiate between fact and opinion) “do their own research” on the disinformation superhighway (emphasis added):
The more she researched online, the more it seemed that there was something bigger going on. She said she came to the conclusion that the government was misleading Americans — for whose benefit, she could not tell. Maybe drug companies. Maybe politicians. Whatever the case, it made her feel like the people in charge saw her — and the whole country of people like her — as easy to take advantage of.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Somewhere along the line, our society has lost touch with the notion that polite is a good thing to be to each other.
Vaccine Nation 0
Michael in Norfolk has a question.
