2022 archive
QOTD 0
Richard Moll, in the voice of Bull Shannon, and Marsha Warfield, in the voice of Roz Russell:
Bull: Why are weddings such a royal pain the keister?
Roz: Maybe to prepare you for marriage.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Lauren Boebert’s recent empty-headed comments about Jesus and guns makes it clear that the reason many fundamentalist Christians profess to love Jesus is because they are convinced that, for all intents and purposes, THEY are Jesus. Their entire concept of Jesus is totally based on their own biases, fears, animosities, prejudices and desires. Forget what the Bible says. Their ‘gut’ tells them what the REAL Jesus was like, and he was EXACTLY like them. If they would like to shoot some people, Jesus would have wanted to shoot the same people. If they hate gay people, Jesus would have hated them too. If they hate feeding the poor, THEIR Jesus would be happy to have let those folks starve. Mangy Fetlocks decided to write a little song to summarize this egocentric religious viewpoint.
Originalist Sin 0
PoliticalProf clarifies the con.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Texas Republicans declare that, if first you don’t secede, try, try again.
As Michael in Norfolk points out, Goldwater was right about one thing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes to the dogs.
Stray Thought, Still Rising Again Dept. 0
It occurred to me yesterday that so many persons who are white like me are hostile to any remembrance of Juneteenth because it emphasizes what precisely was the cause that was lost in what has mythologized as the Lost Cause.
To put it another way, celebrating, or even recognizing, Juneteenth calls out the lie that the Civil War was about anything other than chattel slavery.
A Question of Identity 0
Rebecca Watson takes a look at right-wing provocateur Matt Walsh’s recent efforts demonize LGBTQ persons. It is a timely video in the context of the current Republican war on transgender school kids (which is, again, a very small number of persons). (Warning: language.)
Transcript here.
The Drop in the Bucket 0
QOTD 0
Trevor Donovan, in the voice of Thomas Buckner:
I miss being a kid and not knowing how screwed up the world really is.
“The Doom and Gloom Scroll” 0
Sam and his guest* find American media’s coverage of the January 6 hearings to be somewhat problematic, especially when compared to that of the European press. They wonder whether this news of what was nothing less than an attempted coup d’etat is getting lost in a “daily doom and gloom scroll.”
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*I think it’s Heather Parton, but she’s not specifically identified in the clip.