“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you think the elementary school basketball coach should give your little boy more playing time, be sure to make the request with politeness.
We are a society of stupid.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . but be sure to dress apropriately.
“She Was Just Following Orders” 0
David hears Kristi Noem say something that rhymes with the Nuremberg trials.
American Stasi 0
The Brock Press (a student publication at Brock University in Canada) offers a case study in devolution:
No Change Agents 0
At the The American Scholar, Robert Zaretsky writes f the theories of Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, who lived through and studied the rise of fascism in early and mid-twentieth century Europe. In the midst of a lengthy exploration of Popper’s work, Zaretsky makes what I find a trenchant observation, one which I characterizes dis coarse discourse:
I find his piece a timely and relevant read.
What’s in a Name? 0
Quite a lot, it seems, if you think like a ten year old boy playing soldier.
Lemon Squash and the Power of Repress, Reprise 0
Thom fears that the arrest of Don Lemon presages a crackdown on alternative media.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He was backing recklessly out of his driveway.
She was driving her child to school and tapped her horn in warning.
He responded by discharging his phallus of politeness.
Now her child is in the hospital recovering from surgery.
We are a broken society.
Republican Thought Police 0
Texas Governor Abbott is upset that Texas school students have the utter unmitigated gall and effrontery to form their own opinions about the American Stasi.
QOTD 0
Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby:
Once upon a time, there was a thing called books. They could be quite useful.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes’* 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey listens to current events and hears four rhymmes from the past. Here’s one of them; follow the link for the others and for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
Lemon Squash and the Power of Repress 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice dissects the Trump maladministration’s vendetta against news report Don Lemon. It’s a blistering send of duplicity and dissimulation on the part of Pam Bondi’s Department of you-can-no-longer-call-it Jusstice.
A snippet:
This should have marked the end of a troubling campaign to punish a journalist for journalisming, but what this DOJ lacks in professionalism and legal acumen they more than make up for in creativity. Unable to secure a warrant, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she directed federal agents to arrest the journalists.
Afterthought:
On his podcast, Bob Cesca has often advanced the theory that the point of such legal actions isn’t necessarily to win in court, but rather to cause the targets financial and spiritual pain. Trump, after all, has a long history of using protracted court actions to wear down those he perceives as opponents.
Methinks Cesca makes sense.