Too Venal for Words category archive
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Thom dicusses Republican efforts to bring back child labor.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Portland, Maine, Press-Herald’s Bill Nemitz spots a flock of Does.
Maskless Marauders 0
A marauder who must pay the price.
A Victimless Crime 0
Words fail me.
Maskless Marauders 0
Florida Man says, “Suffer the children.”
And, while we are on the topic of suffering the children . . . .
We are a society of stupid.
Vaccine Nation 0
Tony Norman is not sanguine. Here’s a bit of his article:
The Bullies’ Pulpit (Updated) 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Vicki Larson wonders where the civility went.
And, elsewhere in the same paper, sportswriter Ray Brewer laments similar issues in high school athletics.
Addendum:
For many years, my brother has umpired baseball games, mostly for high schools, but also for youth leagues. He gets a little bit of money for it, but he does it mostly because he loves baseball.
He tells me that umpires for amateur and scholastic games are in increasingly short supply and that one of the primary reasons for this is the behavior of parents, fans, and coaches.
Facebook Frolics 0
Through the glasses, darkly . . . .
Afterthought:
The surveillance state is real, fueled, not by the government, but by private greed shilling for sales and by pathetic individuals shouting into their “smart” phones, “Look at me, me, me, me! I’m an influencer!”