2022 archive
Merchants of Death, Reprise 0
Bill Torpy explores how one gun manufacture promotes its portable phalluses. Here’s one little example; follow the link for more.
The ad showed a boy, maybe 4 years old, with a semiautomatic rifle in his lap, along with a Bible passage: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Untruth in Labeling 0
The Salt Lake Tribune’s Robert Gehrke argues that it’s all about the Benjamins.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Roanoke Times, Betsy Biesenbach considers the role of public prayer. She concludes
Follow the link for her reasoning.
How Far Will Wells-Fargo? 0
In this case, not far enough.
451 Fahrenheits 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jesse Robison considers the recent resurgence of book banning in the United States. Here’s a bit of his piece; follow the link for his reasoning.
Merchants of Death 0
Ryan Busse joins Thom to share why he changed from being gun user to campaigning against their use in the US.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And yet another child . . . .
Going Viral 0
And, when something goes viral enough, it becomes a pestilence.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Stanford’s Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv point out that the clock is TikToking.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Republicans lie because the truth is not their friend.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
They played with politeness.
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.