April, 2023 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Louisiana Republicans want to ban history because truth is divisive might open someone’s eyes.
We are a society of stupid.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Hardly. 0
At The Roanoke Times, Dan Casey offers a case study in real stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks can’t imagine how it must feel to be so damn insecure and fragile as to worry about whether or not your beer is woke or not, manly or not, or conservative or not. Living in the north, Mangy has seen a lot of snowflakes but he never imagined being one. Having seen the pathetic video of musical has-been, Child Pebble, Adolescent Stone, or something like that, shooting at cans of Bud Light inspired him to write this song.
Doubting Thomas 2
At AL.com, Frances Coleman looks at Justice Clarence Thomas’s acceptance of largess (actually, multiple largesses over multiple decades) from a politically active right-wing moneybags and reminds us that can appearances matter. A snippet:
A judge breaks the rule even if he (or she) does things that don’t affect his decisions, but where a reasonable and well-informed person would believe that his conduct would affect his decisions.
The Rule of Flaw 0
Farron argues, with examples, that the Republican Party does not know how to govern. He also points out that, since Reagan, Republicans have had only economic policy: cutting taxes for those who already have too much.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A Florida teacher celebrates Confederate History Indoctrination Month.
The next time you hear someone spout off about “state’s rights,” ask, “The state’s right to do just what, exactly?” and see what distraction dance he or she breaks out into.
Disenfranchising Dense Demographics 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott argues that, in states where they have control, Republicans are are waging urban warfare, that is, warfare against urbans. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom makes a case that Republicans and the NRA are quite willingly orchestrating a misdirection play about gunnuttery to obscure their true intentions.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to cast its shadow.
