Suffer the Children 0
In case you haven’t noticed, that’s now a Republican Family Value.
We have gone from the American Ideal to become the American Ordeal.
Concentrate on This 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the apathy towards the barbaric treatment of migrants along our southern border. A snippet:
These frivolous spats effectively overshadow the tough-to-stomach reality that migrants are being penned in cages and locked in freezing-cold holding cells — that is, when they’re not fenced in under bridges and made to sit on the ground in 100-plus degree weather.
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Eladio Bobadilla, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, put it this way in a recent post on the Latino Rebels website: “[Conservative] commentators are wrong, both historically and morally. Not only is it historically accurate to call these detention centers concentration camps, but the uproar reveals a curious and cruel irony: Conservatives are more outraged by the terms used to describe the detention camps than they are by the conditions inside them.”
Stray Question 0
If you dream that you have insomnia, do you get any rest?
HMOtrocity 0
Aside:
In retrospect, I’ve concluded that the more to HMO-style health care that started in the 1970s and 1980s as the way to “fix” American heath care was a big mistake. It effectively put American health care under the control of insurance companies, which are incentivized, as the neologism goes, to provide as little actual care as possible, and removed it from medical professionals, most of whom (and yes there is the occasional glaring exception) care about caring.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another gun owner demonstrates how responsible he can be.
The injured man then managed to drive himself to the hospital.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Des Moines Register, Richard Cherwitz reminds us of another purported “attack” in another gulf which was used to justify another war for a lie, this one in a country whose name did not start with “I.”.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A reader of The Oregonian reports his experience with a Trumpled book.
Flirting with War 0
Thom fears another Great and Glorious War for a Lie in a Country whose Name Starts with “I.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
Citizens on site began to provide medical assistance, but the 17-year-old passed away by the time medical crews and police officers arrived, Mallory said.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Rude One does the math.
Twits on Twitter 0
Peter St. Onge has a sobering experience.
