2023 archive
Hoist on Their Own Petard 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Poor dumb Republicans. They planned to have what they thought would be a blockbuster hearing showing how Democrats manipulated Twitter to disadvantage Republicans, but instead they highlighted the fact that Trump pressured Twitter to take down unflattering posts about himself. So much for their dream of a ‘liberal-biased big tech’ expose. Mangy Fetlocks has known a few idiots in his many years, but James Comer, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Tater Greens, and friends display record-breaking ineptitude and stupidity.
What the Right Fears Most 0
Knowledge.
The Dividing Line 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun looks at Sara Huckabee Sanders’s “response” to President Biden’s State of the Union address and suggests that she got part of it right. A snippet:
We agree. Though we also think she missed a few adjectives, like dangerous, ignorant, racist, unconstitutional and un-American. The past president’s apologist also needs to take a good long look in the mirror before she starts decrying crazies.
Follow the link for context.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
If you dig into the politics of hate in the United States, however it be manifested, your shovel will eventually strike America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racism which was manufactured to justify it. We close our eyes to that at our peril
Addressing the Issues 0
Seth takes a look at Biden’s State of the Union address and Republicans’ response to the issues Biden addressed.
And, in related news . . . .
Vaccine Nation 0
We need a vaccine against lies and lying liars on the Disinformation Superhighway.
The New Gilded Age 0
Sarah Anderson runs the numbers.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Books
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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.
Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):
I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.
Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Aside:
Many years ago, during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the highest officials from my then-segregated school district drove to New Orleans for some sort of conference. My father later told me that one of them–who went on to serve competently and honorably as the county Superintendent of Schools for many years–told him this anecdote:
In Mississippi, the atmosphere was so hostile that the travelers–all white Southerners, remember–started to fake their accents to sound even more Southern than they already did.
Then and Now 0
Then:
In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1901, William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, said,
Now:
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