QOTD 0
James Noble, in the voice of Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling, and Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:
Eugene: I don’t have the qualifications to be President.
Benson: Never stopped anybody before.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom wonders, “How did the land of Lincoln and Roosevelt, of Eisenhower and Kennedy, become a playground for billionaire sociopaths?”
Listen for his answer.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladministration has taken off its mask–or, perhaps more accurately, put on its hood.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Properly secured? Not according to security expert Bruce Schneier.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Richard Pan looks at RFK Jr.’s record at HHS and concludes that it–er–does not inspire confidence.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth finds a slight whiff of a double standard in the current who-shot-john stirred up by Jake Tapper’s recent book alleging that Joe Biden is getting old. A snippet:
That Was the Week that Was Very Very Weird 0
Seth takes a closer look at some of the events of the past week.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Also at the Idaho State Journal, Larry Gebhardt hears a rhyme.
Here’s a bit of his parsing of the poesy:
Throughout history, tyrants and oligarchs have understood that their major enemy is an educated citizenry. Slaveholders prohibited the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Putin and Xi censor the media. Big tech and well-funded political action spread mis- and disinformation. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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*Mark Twain.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey states that Donald Trump is
and goes on to offer a bill of particulars.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rebecca Dolgin outlines several ways in which “social” media isn’t. Here’s one; follow the link for the others.
Given how many persons think that “social” media is a reliable source for news, I find this a timely and disquieting read.