October, 2022 archive
The Climates They Are A-Changing 0
It’s the end of October and I turned on the AC because of the humidity. When I was a young ‘un, I’d have been wearing my winter coat by now.
We are well past the climate change tipping point and there’s no going back, however many electric cars persons may buy.
The asteroid is coming, and it is us.
Afterthought:
The trees haven’t even lost their leaves yet.
Speaking of the Zuckerborg . . . . 0
The editorial board of The Seattle Times is fed up with Facebook’s scofflaw frolics.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Gregory Jantz reminds us that “social” media too often isn’t. Here’s a bit from his introduction:
On the other hand, misuse of technology and social media can be anything but social. Used unwisely or without discernment, they can be instruments of hatred, hostility, misinformation, and exclusion.
You don’t have to see more than one or two news items about malicious “Tik-Tok challenges” to know that the latter condition is far too common. And don’t get me started on the Zuckerborg . . . .
Follow the link, where he expands on his thought as to how “social” media debases dis coarse discourse.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) discharges his responsibility
The National Riflemakers Association claims that guns don’t kill people (except when they do), people kill people.
That is, people with guns kill people.
We can’t get rid of the people (though people with guns seemed determined to do so, but that’s another post).
We can get rid of the guns.
For example, we might try requiring intelligence tests for persons who want to buy guns, because
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
The Artful Dodger 0
I am reminded of what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once said.
Shenanigans 0
Right-wing operatives to face criminal charges for phoning it in. A snippet:
(snip)
The men, who have a history of staging hoaxes and spreading false smears against prominent Democrats and government officials, are not in custody and no date for their arraignments has been set.
Well, I guess it’s a start, but what about all the others?
Courting Disaster 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times confesses that he was wrong.
Stray Thought 0
I suspect that, meny times, when persons complain about “cancel culture,” what they are actually complaining about is consequences.
(I doubt that I’m the first person who’s thought this, because, in retrospect, it’s pretty honking obvious.)
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., answers some mail.
