Recognize Anyone? 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jean Kim offers a taxonomy of narcissists.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is family value.
Investigators are still trying to determine what led to the outbreak of politeness.
Misdirection Play, the Projection Project Dept. 0
The SPLC analyzes how the right-wing blames everyone else for its violent ways. An excerpt:
The right’s refusal to acknowledge actual political violence only aids white nationalists, not only by downplaying their culpability but also by allowing white nationalists space to push the narrative that the “violent left” is the real threat. . . . Accordingly, the right wing has strategically pushed what one commenter on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer called “the ‘out of control, violent left’ meme.”
For a large swath of extremists on the far right, violence is the ultimate goal; it’s not a desire they try to hide. On social media and white nationalist platforms, they openly pine for the opportunity to attack and kill leftists and fantasize about a potential civil war.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Speaking of polling places, we voted in the primary today. When we were there midmorning, there were more polling stations than voters–six polling stations and two voters.
The Music of the Fears 0
Shaun Mullen has tired of listening to Congressional Democrats play their favorite musical instrument: The Dithering-do.
Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0
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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More playful responsible gun owner* antics . . . .
Mr. Playboy turned himself in and is currently released on bond. His playmate victim is on life support.
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*In the world of gunnuttery, all gun owners are “responsible gun owners” until suddenly they’re not.
QOTD 0
S. S. van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) in the voice of Philo Vance:
To be sure, patience is sort of a last resort–a practice to adopt when there’s nothing else to do.
Van Dine, S. S., The Benson Murder Case in a double volume
with The Canary Murder Case (London: Leonaur.com), p. 89.
“Because It Sells” 0
Sheila Kohler explores the appeal of mongering hate as a political tactic.
Facebook Frolics 0
Bert Roughton reflects on the year since he abandoned the Zuckerborg. A snippet:
(snip)
I’ve read the back and forth in The New York Times about whether Facebook needs to be dismembered – or not. But really, who cares? It isn’t as if Facebook is some massive system that distributes food, fuel or even useful knowledge.
Facebook distributes twaddle.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a bang out of politeness.
He started to bang the cylinder against a table to dislodge the bullet, which went off, the report said.
The bullet was stuck in the man’s ring finger when he went to the Oconto Falls hospital emergency room . . . .
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Twits on Twitter 0
(Remember that Texas was part of Mexico far longer than it has been part of the U. S. A. and these kids of whom this twit twits may have deeper roots in Texas than she.)