2021 archive
The Prison Reformer 0
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the insurrectionists in the D. C. jail are suffering unduly while awaiting trial for an attempted coup d’etat.
Going to Extremes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman offers a lens for understanding extremists and extremism which I found well worth the read. Here’s a tiny bit:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and a polite society is a clean society . . . .
Afterthought:
How stupid does someone have to be not make sure a gun is not loaded before starting to clean i–oh, never mind. We are a society of stupid.
Budget Buster Blather 0
PoliticalProf runs the numbersEx.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Florida Man and Florida Woman.
Have you noticed that, when persons are actually charged with casting fraudulent votes, it’s almost always for Republicans?
Exports 0
At The Roanoke Times, Nancy Liebrecht reminds us that American manufacturing jobs didn’t go overseas on their own.
American companies moved them there.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Sam and his crew skewer the glibertarian gibberish of Elon “Drivers Can Play Video Game on Their Touch Screens” Musk.
Words fail me.
Book Fits 0
John M. Crisp considers the outcry in right-wing circles about “obscene” books in school libraries. He wonders whether it’s really about protecting children. A snippet
So, which poses the greater threat to public school students? The abundance, availability and normalization of firearms and a casual attitude toward a deadly disease? Or a copy of “In the Dream House” in a public school library?
Aside:
Of course it’s not about protecting children. It’s a culture war misdirection play on a grand scale.