2022 archive
QOTD 0
Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:
I guess somehow the world seems like a nicer place when you don’t know what’s going on in it.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and see (has-been) celebrities reveal their inner selves.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 2
Sometimes the polite are hoisted on their own petards.
Aside:
Of course, no one these days really knows what a petard is. The only definitions I could find (here’s an example”) seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with hoisting.
Addendum:
See drouse’s comment below. drouse gave me a new perspective on that quotation from Shakespeare.
(Broken tag fixed.)
Penalty Call 0
At the Austin American-Statesman, John Young throws the flag.
Psychopaths on the War Paths 0
Does this remind you of anyone in the news?
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
For all their patriotic bluster, it seems Republicans have an incredibly long list of fears and insecurities. Mangy Fetlocks has no problem with admitting to fears, since many fears make total sense. It’s presenting yourself as heroic and fearless when you are nothing but a bundle of insecurities that Mangy feels compelled to call ‘BS’ on.
Cause—>Effect—>Backlash 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey considers recent Georgia laws hamstringing the teaching of actual factual United States history in Georgia’s schools. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Republican Family Values 0
(The relevant portion takes up the first half or so of the video.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., counsels us to stop looking away, looking away, looking away from the party of Dixieland.
Misdirection Play, Patriot Gamers Dept. 0
Jack Bernard looks up “patriot” and “mandate” in a dictionary and discovers that they don’t mean what the right-wing would have you think they mean.