2023 archive
This New Gilded Age 0
Michael in Norfolk minces no words in discussing Republicans’ efforts to return our society to a Dickensian dystopia. An excerpt:
The News Recycle 0
David outlines the right-wing strategy for propagating propaganda to poison the polity.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet another lying twit careens down the Disinformation Superhighway.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time. That’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
The Umpire Strikes Back 0
My brother has umpired baseball for years, mostly high school games. He has regularly attended course and workshops on how to umpire, because he loves the game. (So do I, for that matter, but he was good at it.)
According to him, the behavior of parents and other fans has taken a serious turn for the worse over the past decade, so much so that leagues are having trouble keeping and recruiting umpires.
In Deptford Township, New Jersey, a local Little League has come up with a novel strategy for fighting back.
Responsible Fiscals 0
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic (emphasis on the “moronic”) “responsible gun owner” exposes children to politeness.
Broken by Brexit 0
Apparently, things are not going well in the United Kingdom.
Afterthought:
Anyone who pays attention to history knew that Brexit was a bad idea.
I did a “junior year abroad” at the University of Exeter (mumble) years ago (Let’s just say I saw Monty Python episodes when they were first-run).
The picture that Der Spiegel paints is not the England that I visited.
A Shot at a Beer 0
We are a society of stupid.
Aside:
I don’t like Bud Light either, but that’s because, as far as I’m concerned, it’s not beer.
Guinness is beer.