April, 2025 archive
Intercepted Signals 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers dissects the deception.
All the World’s a Stage 0
And all the men and women merely players (whether they want to be or not).
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Word Salad 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini tries to make sense of the anti-DEI* bill passed by the Arizona legislature and finds that it doesn’t–make sense, that is.
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*Remember, that translates to pro-uniformity, pro-inequality, and pro-exclusion.
Consider the Source 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jason Shimiaie reminds that “(g)aslighting is a way of replacing your subjective reality with someone else’s.”
Go read his and consider, does it remind you of anyone in–or of anyone “providing”–the news?
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom’s caller hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.
In related news, neighborly politeness again goes to for the dogs.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
More mean for the sake of mean:
The story goes on to point out that, natch, he’s not illegal, he’s not an immigrant, and he’s not even of Mexican descent.
We have lost our way.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
If you get deported by ICE, you can expect to fly the fiendly skies.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . are a malleable thing.
In a longer piece in which he discusses how the MAGA movement is fed by, and feeds on, white nationalism and racism, Field notes an irony:
I commend the entire article to you attention.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Bait for the easily bamboozled? Fritz Kessler counsels caution.