May, 2023 archive
This New Gilded Age 0
Robert Reich offers a simple explanation of the increase in child labor. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
(snip)
Why on Earth is this happening? The answer is frighteningly simple: greed./blockquote>
Vaccine Nation 0
Oh! Look! A dating site for stupid people.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs yet another random act of 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.
Bumps on a Head 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stanley Finger tells the fascinating tale of how Mark Twain and Oliver Wendell Holmes took down phrenology con.
One wonders how they would deal with ChatGPT.
What’s in a Name? 0
As Chris Williams points out at Above the Law, quite a lot, apparently. A nugget:
Follow the link for context.
This New Gilded Age 1
Sam and his crew discuss the growing use of child labor in American industry.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes yet another child to politeness.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Karen Dolan of the Institute for Policy Studies argues that Republicans have a fluid definition of “decorum.”
Apparently, in Republicanese, a “breach of decorum” is “stuff we don’t like.” Here’s a bit from her article:
And it’s an apparently flexible definition — Tennessee lawmakers refused to punish a colleague who was credibly accused of commiting child sexual abuse and another who was charged with domestic violence. Not even the member who allegedly urinated on another’s office chair was expelled for “breaking decorum.”
All the News that Fits 0
Will Bunch notes the scariest thing about CNN’s Trump Clown Hall*:
That was all too predictable. But here’s what I wasn’t prepared for, and it gutted me.
The applause.
While on the subject, PoliticalProf explains why CNN is in no way responsible for what CNN did.
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*With apologies to Bob Cesca.
