August, 2022 archive
Florida Man 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells the tale of Captain Florida.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
At AL.com, Frances Coleman wonders why the right-wing has decided that banning books is the new in thing. Here’s a tiny bit of her article (emphasis added):
Monkee Business 0
Joe Patrice is a believer.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Keeping the peace with his piece.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Eden.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch opines that Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate seems to one of those risers again.
No Place To Hide 0
Some good news from Bruce Schneir.
Personally, I keep the GPS (Google calls it “location services” turned off on my Android devices unless I have a positive need for it, which is almost never. That means trackers can know my general location, sure, but they don’t know whether I’m in the drug store or the hardware store.
The Graham Cracker 0
Field thinks that we–well, he says the media, but I think it’s not just them–may have become numb to the outrageous.
Follow the link and decide for yourself.
Water Deviltry 0
Nor any brain to think . . . .
(snip)
But a new report from Votebeat and the Texas Tribune shows that the harassment and threats that ultimately drove Gillespie County’s elections department staffers to leave their jobs stemmed specifically from activists invested in conspiracies related to fluoride in local drinking water.
We are a society of stupid.
Details at the link.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at the motivation for the right-wing’s current book-banning frenzy. A snippet:
On Establishmentarianism 0
At the Des Moines Register, retired professor Norma Cook Everist discusses the dangers of establishmentarianism. Here’s tiny bit from her article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
(Broken link fixed.)
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
At the Roanoke Times, Arnold Schuetz, who grew up and attended school in Germany shortly after the end of World War II, sees echoes of his own experience in current attempts to–you will pardon the expression–whitewash America’s history of chattel slavery and racial discrimination.
No excerpt or summary will do his article justice. Just read it.
