2024 archive
Chaos Agents 0
Michael in Norfolk sums up the strategy:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Accounting 0
David counts the counts.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Interstate trafficking of politeness:
The man who was driving the truck suffered an injury that state police described as “extremely minor,” and authorities said the man refused medical transport.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Stacey Woods offers some tips to avoid being taken in by scams on “social” media.
It’s required reading, because, as has been so often demonstrated, “social” media isn’t.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
LA Granderson has a question concerning the Speaker of the house:
(snip)
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
Follow the link, where Granderson puts his question into context.
All the News that Fits 0
Dick Polman takes issue with the claims of Donald Trump’s lawyers that what the National Inquirer did for Donald Trump is somehow “normal journalism.” Here’s a tiny pit of his article:
The entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
AL.com’s Roy Johnson wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
They call themselves news hawks, but they are actually carrion crowers.
Patriot Gamers 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier takes at look at the behavior of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, particularly as regards aid to Ukraine. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit from his article (emphasis added):
The Search for the Scream 0
Yesterday, I climbed my stairs and heard a high-pitched screaming sound that came from I knew not where, but it seemed to be coming from my room.
I entered my room, but could not locate its source. It seemed to come from everywhere.
I went to the breaker box and opened the breaker for my room and the sound went away, proving it came from my room.
I closed the breaker and the sound came back, still seeming to come from everywhere.