2024 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner,” another child . . . .
Establishmentarians 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the reasoning behind the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent IVF ruling. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Incongruously Assembled 0
Thom and Farron discuss the do-nothing Republicans in Congress, specifically in the House.
Maskless Marauders 0
An Alabama Republican lawmaker wants to outlaw the very notion of protecting the public good and promoting the general welfare.
Methinks selfishness is the ultimate Republican family value.
Moms for Libertines 0
Scott Maxwell is an optimist.
Immunity Impunity
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Jimmy Kimmel comments on Donald Trump’s attempt to exempt himself from the rule of law.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini details the duplicity and highlights the hypocrisy.
Precedented 0
Michael in Norfolk has seen it before the mythmaking before. A snippet:
More at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
Mob Psychology on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
We have all seen the speed with which lies, hatred, and nastiness go “viral” on the disinformation superhighway. Nigel Barber, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, looks at the dynamics of mob psychology in this age of “social” media. He starts by citing Gustave LeBon’s exploration of mob psychology, published in 1895. Here’s a tiny bit of his article.
(snip)
These features are also apparent in social media groups. Yet online mobs have some organizational features that differentiate them from old-fashioned street mobs. To begin with, online mobs can be much larger because they stretch across national boundaries bringing the same themes to geographically dispersed actions. So, the same far-right anti-immigrant memes of territorial invasion and replacement of native-born residents are cropping up in street protests around the world.
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Stray Thought 0
I suspect that, if I looked up “truth” in my trusty Roget’s Thesaurus, which I’ve had for forty years, I would not find “divisive concepts” listed as a synonym thereof.
But, if I had an updated version, I think I just might.
Republican Family Values 0
An Arizona state legislator who is dealing with a non-viable pregnancy and who has suffered multiple miscarriages speaks powerfully of the agony she has endured because of Republican culture warriors and American Talibangelicals.
I knew someone who endured a miscarriage. It is not an experience I would wish on anyone, and it is certainly not an experience that should be mandated by government.
There is a reason the Founders mandated separation of church and state, and this is certainly one of them.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes yet another child to yet another gun.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmore reports on the Autauga-Prattville Library Board, which fired the library directory and now can’t get its story straight about why.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Every time you think it has reached the absolute depths of dumb stupid, it goes and proves you wrong.
We are a society of stupid.