2023 archive
All the News that Fits 0
At the Kansas City Star, Melinda Henneberger takes a long look at the damage that those who peddles lies as “news” do to our polity. She starts with the story of Andrew D. Lester, the man who shot a young black man who was sent to pick up his little brothers, went to the wrong address through a quite understandable mistake, and was shot for knocking on a door.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
That, Lester’s 28-year-old grandson Klint Ludwig told The Star, is how the retired airplane mechanic fell “further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line” while immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
Melinda Henneberger isn’t alone in her concerns. Retired Navy Captain Larry Gebhardt, writing at the Idaho State Journal, is concerned that we are becoming (being turned into?) a nation of scaredy cats afeared of each others’ shadows.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Twits Own Twitter 0
Microsoft is pulling back from Twitter, and Elon Musk is not taking it gracefully. A writer at Techdirt pulls no punches:
This is why Twitter is failing. Elon Musk himself is a liability. He’s the one driving advertisers and partners away.
Follow the link for Exhibits A to ZZ.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 8 with the Fluxbox window manager. Xclock is in the upper right and GkrellM in the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.
The Crypto Con 0
Barnum was wrong. There’s more than one born every minute.
Republican Family Values 0
I was not aware that “mean for the sake of mean” was a family value, but apparently it is.
American Establishmentarians 0
A Navy veteran speaks out against what he refers to as Florida Governor DeSantis’s “religious fascism.”
As I mentioned earlier, today’s Republican Party seems not to care much about the United States Constitution, particularly the bit about “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
Disney Whirl 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye explains how Florida Man’s latest move in his vendetta against Disney World just happens to violate the United States Constitution.
Not that today’s Republican Party seems to care much about the United States Constitution.
The Twitter Fails 0
Rebecca Watson dissects the deception buried in Elon Musk’s and Matt Taibbi’s “Twitter Files.”
. . . or you can read the transcript.
Decoding de Code 0
Jamelle Bouie explains what Republicans mean when they say “parents’ rights”:
Follow the link for his reasoning.