2022 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There was recently a letter to the editor of my local rag arguing that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Funny how gun nuts always leave out the key modifier.
It’s people with guns that kill people.
Sure, people with knives and bricks and baseball bats and even corkscrews kill people too, but not nearly so many people, nor so quickly.
Facebook Frolics, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
Flocks of falsehoods furthered by fibbing frolickers.
And, once again, “social” media magnifies the malicious.
An Exercise in Futility 0
Robert K. Vischer imagines that one can speak rationally to those who have abandoned rationality.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Christopher Dale is less than optimistic, and I fear he has reason.
Supply Change 0
Sam and his crew talks with professor Laleh Khalili about the global supply chain backups.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Usher in the New Year with politeness.
Red Scare Redux 0
At the Idaho State Journal, retired professor Wayne Schow takes issue with Doyle Beck’s hyperventilating over a little bit of social safety netting. He explains that democratic socialism and Soviet style communism are not, in fact, the same thing, a distinction of which methinks many Americans are similarly unaware (as many seem also unaware of the concept of the “common good”).
Here’s a bit from his essay; follow the link for the rest.
Words Matter 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Shoot first, ask questions later.
“My husband made a mistake and shot her because he thought she was an intruder,” the mother said. “She was in our garage and my husband just didn’t know what was going on. Oh, my God.”
Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.
We are a broken society.
Stray Thought 0
It is notable that about the only bit of speculation in the speculative movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, that has come close to fruition is HAL, the malevolent computer.