January, 2023 archive
Republican Family Values 0
But, as David Horn points out at The Roanoke Times, it is not necessarily the family that you may be thinking of.
Boebert Is the New Gohmert 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
“But I’m the Victim Here” 0
Right-wingers, racists, and, especially these days, evangelical they-call-themselves Christians often claim that they are being persecuted for their beliefs, they they are, to quote the cliche, “the real victims here.” Their definition of “persecution,” match, is not getting everyone else bend to their will.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Araya Baker explores why these folks portray themselves as–indeed, can convince themselves that they are–victims. It is a complex and timely article and well worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility, to (no surprises here) his detriment.
Meanwhile, at the Orlando Sentinel, Cindy Sawyer tries to make sense of gun nuts’ rationales for gunnuttery and concludes that, well, they just don’t make sense.
Much Ado about Who Knows What? 0
Noz tries to figure out why some House Republicans don’t want Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House and concludes that some House Republicans just don’t want Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House.
Meanwhile, on the same topic, Nick Carraway suggests that it’s much ado about a hollow man who stands for nothing.
Me, I suspect it’s just mean for the sake of mean.
We are a flailing state.
The Speaker Squeaker 0
Seth takes a look at Republicans in disarray. An excerpt:
. . . the current Republican Party simply isn’t fit to govern and, when it comes to Congress, they shouldn’t even be allowed in the doors . . .
It’s All about the Algorithm , , , 0
, , , and the algorithm is designed, above all else, to be addictive.
Conceptualizing a Coup 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye parses the perfidious plottings of those poseurs who would cast a sheep’s clothing of pseudo-legality over a wolfish plot to reverse a legitimate election.
You can’t make this stuff up, but they can. Just go read it four yourself.
All the History that Fits 0
The whole story of the Southern “Lost Cause” was a myth (and, I would argue, Gone with the Wind, both the book and the movie, was one of the most successful pieces of political propaganda in history, but that’s another story).
And the New Secesh are still making stuff up.
The Ciimates They Are a-Changing 0
It got so hot and muggy in the condo tonight that I had to turn on the AC.
In January.
I fear for my grandchildren.
