Market Farces 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Douglas Van Praet explores how marketeers manipulate persons into paying why some folks are willing to pay $25,000 for a hoodie.
Facts vs. Fanaticism 0
Cliff delights in Pete Buttigieg’s use of facts to counter Republicans’ fictions about electric vehicles. (Not, of course, that facts matter the least bit to said Republicans.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to your fellow party-goers.
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom Hartman looks at the series of opinions by the Supreme Supremacist Court and concludes that
In America 2.0, there is no right to vote; governors and secretaries of state can take away your vote without even telling you (although they still must go to court to take away your gun). .
Follow the link for the context of his conclusion.
It’s Bubblelicious 0
Michael-in-Norfolk has a memory:
More memories and a straw at which to grasp at the link.
Tunes for the (New) Times 0
Mangy test drives some songs.
Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Kate Murphy, pastor at The Grove Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, pushes back at the current wave of they-call-themselves Christians and their push for establishmentarianism. A snippet:
If the governor of Florida can, by the power not vested in him, unilaterally declare that the church of Satan isn’t a religion, then he can also wake up one morning and decide that Islam isn’t a religion, or Hinduism, or Catholicism or any faith that allows women to preach or doesn’t handle snakes.
The point of the separation of church and state, as any fourth grader with a reasonably competent history teacher can tell you, isn’t to limit a citizen’s ability to practice their faith, but to protect it.
(Broken link fixed.)
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*Methinks in this context, “Christian” is New Speak for “Secesh.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s how Republicans teach history.
American Taliban 0
Rebecca Watson discusses the establishmentarians’ efforts to (en)force their creed on the polity.
Or you can read the transcript.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When dining in a restaurant. show politeness to the wait staff.
Officials said staff tried to get the man to stay and pay but were unsuccessful. Witnesses told police that when the woman came out of the restroom, she also tried to leave without paying. Staff confronted her, and she allegedly pulled the gun on employees, according to officials.
A struggle ensued, but a staff member was able to pull the gun away from the woman before she fled the scene in a vehicle, according to police.
The stupid. It burns.
More stupid at the link.
QOTD 0
Ian Rooney, in the voice of Cec Drury:
Well, sir, my father used to say that golf was a waste of good farmland.
Aside:
To be clear, I got nothing against golf. I don’t play, but I understand the fascination. It’s like pool (indeed, I once had a pool table): it’s not you against the other players, it’s you against the ball. But I still think it’s great line.
