April, 2022 archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston hears echoes of the past.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
I can’t help thinking we have yet to hear the end of the story about Trump taking 15 boxes of documents to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House. Maybe Trump had Russian and North Korean bidders facing off to buy those boxes as he attempted to sell them on eBay. Donald was never one to pass up a quick and easy buck, no matter how sketchy the deal.
The Nuremberg Defense 0
It didn’t work for Nazis then, and it doesn’t look like it’s working now.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
The NRA will no doubt argue that, had the victim been packi–oh, never mind.
Eyewitless to History 0
Just because you see it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so.
(Indeed, these days, it probably ain’t so.)
Aside:
I note the phrase “content consumers” in the article at the link in this passage about halfway down the page:
Falling for a gag on the internet is a harmless occurrence while scrolling the endless feed; however, its impact implies how insidiously susceptible content consumers are to misinformation.
Methinks we should spend less time consuming content and more time digesting it.
Russian Impulses 0
David explores Fox News’s and Donald Trump’s service as Russia’s useful idiots. (Warning: short commercial at about the five minute mark.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they never give a straight answer to a simple question: States’ rights to do just what, exactly?
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
And another one bites the dust . . . .