2024 archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Speaking of merchants of death . . . .
Disseminators of Defamation, or Accountability for the No Account, Reprise 0
Mark Bankston updates the Majority Report on his case against “social” media liars and the media that propagates the lies thereof. As an aside, the discussion sheds much light on how the disinformation highway disinforms.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
A gunshot rattled a Chuck E. Cheese in Gaston County on Sunday, police said.
(snip)
Officers said a father reached into his pocket and accidentally touched the trigger as he was leaving the business.
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.
The Chaos Agent 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Bryan Greenspun argues forcefully that, thanks to Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers, America’s new normal is chaos. Here’s part of what he says:
Every day of the four years produced one form of chaos or another as norms were upended, laws were ended and civility expunged from the daily discourse.
All that ended with the election of Joe Biden. Normalcy was certain to return and the bananas-like blip in the American psyche could subside. Or so we thought.
What the entire world didn’t count on was that Trump and his cult would not do the honorable thing and just go away.
He did the opposite.
Pre-Trial Publicity 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s “Truth” Social rant before his trial commenced (warning: short commercial at the end.)
A Pillow of the Community 0
Sam and the crew are somewhat taken aback to find that RNC co-chair Lara Trump is shilling for My Pillow.
Just when you think that our society of stupid can’t get any stupider, it up and proves you to be, as my old boss* used to say, in error.
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*He was my first boss at a full-time job and he was very easy to work for because he was a skillful boss.
I once asked him how he got to be such a good boss. He paused for a minute, then said, “I think about what my first boss would have done. Then I do the opposite.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner”–oh, heck, you know the rest.
One more time, “negligent” and “accidental” are not synonyms.
And, in more news of the polite . . . .
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Michael in Norfolk finds a straw at which to grasp.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
At the Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin notes that yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” has put the moron in oxymoron.
American Regress and the Rule of Lawless 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, seasoned diplomat and professor of international affairs at the Pennsylvania State University Dennis Jett looks at Republican plans to gut the Civil Service and return to the “spoils system” of the Nineteenth Century. He determines it to be a disastrous idea. Here’s a bit:
Afterthought:
I can’t but suspect the motive for this is quite simple: to exempt the (next Republican) President from the rule of law.
