The Senders 0
In the aftermath of last week’s Trump rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Daniel J. Winarick wonders about the characteristics of persons who would chant, “Send her back.”
Geeking Out 0
The Plasma Desktop with the Glowglass theme on Ubuntu MATE. The wallpaper is from my library.
Tutorials of Toxicity 0
Will Bunch, in the course of a long column about the spread of the Trump toxin through our polity, notes a particularly distressing incident involving a young girl in the audience behind Donald Trump at last week’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina. He suggests that Trump’s rallies are training seminars for hate and the hate-full:
Follow the link for the rest of his thoughts.
Unconscious and Biased 0
At The Charlotte Observer, Aleta Payne compiles a list of occasion on which white persons treated her in a certain way simply because she is not-white. Here are a couple of examples; follow the link for the litany.
All the times the “inoffensiveness” of the Confederate flag has been explained to me as if I’d just been missing the nuance.
The time a coach gave my son, the only African American on the tennis team, a towel embroidered with the nickname “Cocoa Puff,” and I had to explain why that was a problem.
Metamorphosis 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., wonders whether the Republican Party is still a political party or has it become something else.
Interrogation 0
The Roanoke Times editorial board has some questions for Republicans who refuse to condemn Donald Trump’s racism.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your neighbors.
Anchorage police say the man in the lower apartment on Wednesday night was seated on his couch, holding his toddler.
The bullet bounced off the man’s skull. The man was transported to a hospital, where he was treated and released.
