2024 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Settle disputes over parking places with politeness.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Gun Den of Eden.
This New Gilded Age 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice notes that, in real estate price-fixing management company RealPage’s own words, the price-fix was in.
QOTD 0
Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:
Funny. Civ’lization doesn’t seem like such a swell thing when you’re in it, but when you ain’t got it, it begins t’ appear like there was somethin’ in it after all.
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Death Lights a Candle (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2005) p. 125
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the one-minute mark, but the tune is worth it.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh decide that, if all else fails to bring back the Confederacy, let’s craft a Way-Back machine?
A Notion of Immigrants 0
David debunks de bunk.
Aside:
This conspiracy theory is, indeed, laughable from the git-go, as David points out.
But it’s not really about elections.
It’s about rallying the bigots and racists who are Trump’s base.
Republican Thought Police 0
“Vengeance is ours,” sayeth the Republican Thought Police.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Lt. Mike Wall with the Santaquin Police Department told KSL-TV the boy found a 9 mm handgun in the back room of his house and fired a single shot.
He may have “accidentally” shot himself, true, but some “responsible gun owner” negligently left that firearm where he could get at it.
Too many guns. Too much stupid.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy sings of Trump’s promises.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom looks at the elitest reasoning behind the “Reagan Revolution” and at how it has backfired big time.
Republican Family Values 0
Michael in Norfolk calls out the con.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness claims yet another child.
The Scofflaw 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Leonard Green looks at Donald Trump’s practice of using songs at his rallies, even after being served legal notice by the songs’ copyright holders not to do so.
He closes his article with a suggestion for the next song’s copyright Trump should infringe.
Follow the link and name that tune.
What’s in a Name-Calling? 1
At Psychology Today Blogs, Loriann Oberlin explores the psychology of name-calling, which has become an increasing aspect of dis coarse discourse. A snippet (which sounds a lot like someone in the news):
Those who do not have much ego strength build themselves up by tearing down innocent others. It’s a maladaptive pattern that could stem from learned behavior—that is, witnessing others do this in childhood. It may also arise from unresolved emotional issues.
Follow the link for her suggestions for dealing with this pestilence upon the polity.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
A great performance, but a tenuous premise . . . .
(I had this tune in my head because I recently heard it sampled in a BBC episode of Agatha Christie’s Crooked House at The Old Time Radio Theater–link on the sidebar.)