March, 2025 archive
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Washington Monthly, Diana Moss explains that the trusts–the ones Teddy Roosevelt tried to bust–are back. A snippet:
What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Them, Reprise 0
The Trump maladministration has decided that we don’t need no stinking library books.
Who needs books if you’ve got “social” media influencers?
Russian Impulses 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Dave Witham looks at Donald Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine and has a wonder:
Follow the link for the rest.
This New Gilded Age 0
This dude has clearly never worried about where his next meal was coming from.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Texas A&M professor Andrew Dessler dissects the misdirection play.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David decodes de code. (Warning: Short promo at the six-minute mark.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another case of self-politeness.
There is one recurring common denominator in all these events.
The presence of a gun.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Andrew Sillen tells of hearing a most disturbing rhyme echoing from time spent teaching in apartheid South Africa. A nugget:
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*Mark Twain.
Devolution 0
The Founders did not write
. . . a government of the president, by the president, and for the president.
but that appears to be what we now have inflicted on ourselves.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Farron runs the numbers.
