March, 2024 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
In this case, the reak turkey was at the wrong end of the gun.
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.
Malice in Blunderland 0
Martin Schramm argues, that, like Alice, we have fallen through a mirror into an alternate universe where everything is upside down and backwards. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Look at what has gone so wrong and seems so backward in the Republican Party founded by Abe and forged by Ike (who saved Europe from being conquered by Hitler) and Ron (who gloriously praised the Greatest Generation that made the world safe for democracy).
But we’ve just seen and heard the new standard bearer-apparent of the Republican Party – Donald Trump – lavishing praise on Europe’s only democracy-snuffing, free-speech-stifling, dictatorial autocrat: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And we’ve heard all about his love of all sorts of dictators – and even praise of Adolf Hitler.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner observes that
Republicans in the former Confederacy seem determined to refight the Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal looks at the conflict in Gaza and hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain
QOTD 0
Twm Morys:
While we’re still afraid of what we don’t understand, there will be monsters.
(Incorrect attribution correxed. Frankly–I do everything frankly–in this show it is rather difficult to know who is saying what.)
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
American Taliban 0
A caller shares some stories about the antics of what he I think most aptly refers to as “Talibangelicals.”
Aside:
I was brought up Southern Baptist before the Texans took over the Southern Baptist Convention, or, to put it another way, when the SBC was sane.
I’ve read the Bible multiple times (mostly the Jerusalem translation, because in my opinion it best blends modern English with lyricism). It was a great comfort to me when my first marriage broke up. Nevertheless, I must say I haven’t read it recently, mainly as a visceral reaction to the antics of right-wing they-call-themselves Christian evangelicals merchants of hate.
These “Talibangelicals” worship no Jesus that I know.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts looks at Kari Lake and Mike Lindell’s latest attempt to resuscitate their failed attempt to overthrow Arizona’s 2020 presidential vote count and concludes that there’s no there there.
