“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
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.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
El Reg points out that, for every effect, there is a cause (emphasis added). Here’s the lede:
A scientific paper published in the journal Nature this week confirms that was the case, with justification. The groups more likely to be subjected to moderation were also more likely to share misinformation from low-quality news sites.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Deportation Nation 0
Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Viola, reportedly responded to Carter-Goodheart, “I’m so sick and tired of this liberal bull (expletive). Why don’t you go back to where you came from?”
Per the news report, Trish Carter-Goodheart is of Native American descent. Her ancestors were here a millennium before Foreman’s.
The stupid. It burns, and the hate, well, it metastasizes.
Republican Thought Cookie Police
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Just when you thought dis coarse discourse couldn’t get any stupider . . . .
Permission To Prevaricate? 0
The editorial board of the Las Vega Sun points out that J. D. Vance seems to think that fact-checking is censorship, which, I guess, sort of makes sense if you are a lying liar who doesn’t want to get called out for telling your lies.
The Past Is Prologue . . . 0
. . . but, as Thom points out, we keep forgetting the past.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts thinks that the Lake effect may be at an ebbing point.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.
Keystone Kops of the Kali Kind 0
Even Mack Sennett could not have made this up.
Recommended Viewing 0
Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.
Even if you are not a mystery buff and a Hercule Poirot fan, as I am, it’s worth viewing for the cast, which includes David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, and George Kennedy, among others. And much of it was filmed in Egypt, so the scenery is authentic.
I saw it on Tubi.
Vaccine Nation 0
Rebecca Watson discusses how the anti-VAXX movement is endangering everyone. An excerpt from her discussion of a study reported in The Lancet:
But now back to the bad news: that “trend” I said they noticed? They found that the number of people who contracted measles during that time period were MORE likely to be vaccinated, compared to previous decades. The number of vaccinated people getting measles TRIPLED, but why?
The models showed that the protection offered by the vaccine was superb, so how is this happening? Because of herd immunity. If 95% of people were immunized, we wouldn’t see these breakout infections, but in England during that time period only 85% of kids got both doses. That drop of just ten percentage points tripled the number of cases showing up in vaccinated people, even for a vaccine with an incredibly high level of effectiveness, which should give you some insight into why we’re still dealing with COVID-19, considering that only about 80% of Americans ever got even a single vaccination for it.
Or you can read the transcript.