The Casting Grouch 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini thinks he knows why Donald Trump is filling his maladministration with unqualified Fox News personalities. Here’s a bit of his theory:
Brain Drain Eviction
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Der Spiegel reports (follow the link for the full report):
Also, RFK Jr. has hurt fee-fees because anti-science whack-jobs don’t get no respect.
Not that these two items might in any way be related . . . .
The Lies of the Land 0
Thom dissects how and why big (Republican) lies work and lists a litany of said lies.
As an aside, his arguments are consistent with points made by Vanessa LoBue, whose Psycnology Today article I mentioned yesterday.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are again reminded that politeness is a family value.
They Way They Were . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann remembers the past. Here’s one of his misty water-colored memories:
Follow the link for more memories.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Vanessa LoBue takes a look at how dis- and misinformation spread on the disinformation superhighway. She notes that researchers have determined the following:
She goes on to offer some techniques to avoid falling for fabrications.
I commend her article as a timely read in this disinformation age.
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*Citations at the link.
A Trumped Up Case 0
At the Washington Monthly, former federal prosecutor James D. Zirin argues that
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It seems that some “responsible gun owners” saw fit to celebrate their Mother’s Day family restaurant outings by discharging their pointers of politeness at each other.
We are a broken society.
Fantasy World 0
Yes, Virginia, there is an alternate universe.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
For the life of me, I can’t see anything behind this but racism, bigotry, and mean for the sake of mean.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Intellectually enhancing? If you buy that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale.
Vaccine Nation on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
In an article at AL.com, Nicole K. Reh, who is on the path to earning a medical degree, writes about how “social” media is endangering persons’ health; she focuses on the recent measles outbreaks and the anti-VAXX lies that have fueled them.
One interesting frightening statistic that she cites particularly caught my eye:
The entire piece is worth a read, and, remember, “social” media isn’t.