January, 2024 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Historian Charles B. Dew responds to those who would preserve, even celebrate, Confederate monuments because they are “part of history” by reminding them of just what part of history they would cherish. Here’s a bit:
Follow the link for more from the historical record.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another random act of politeness.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
You may find yourself bedeviled by the experience.
A Taker on the Take 0
Dick Polman follows the money.
The True Believer 0
What became of “old enough to know better”?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a child politeness.
Yet another child is sacrificed at the foot of the NRA’s leaden altar.
The Hollow Man, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Scott G. Eberle writes of “lying, compulsive lying, and BS.”
His article focuses on George Santos, but methinks it could just as easily be about Donald Trump.
I commend it to your attention.
The Hollow Man 0
As you may have heard, Donald Trump, a second-generation American, recently said that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America. (One descendant of immigrants certainly is, but I digress.)
In the midst of a longer article discussing this remark, Ned Seaton notes, methinks quite accurately:
Follow the link for context,
Election Insurrection 0
Farron suggests that election rejection is tantamount to insurrection as he discusses a Pennsylvania Republican who conspired to subvert the 2020 election.
Afterthought:
Methinks that attempting to overturn the results of a legitimate election is about as unAmerican as it gets.
But, apparently, none dare call it treason.
