Documented Devolution? 0
Does evolution work backward?
Exhibit One:
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bence Nanay discusses a study that found that macaque monkeys’ social ties and level of social tolerance increased with the scarcity of resources.
I rest my case.
“The Death Loop” 0
Sam and the crew talk with Elie Mystal about the Supreme Supremacist Court’s double-talk about bump stocks.
Hysterical Over-Reactors 0
Methinks Grung_e_Gene makes some good points.
Honest to Betsy, we seem to have forgotten that substance should surpass superficiality.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,”
Suffer the Children Dept.
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NBC News has a wonder about the perils of politeness. Here’s the question:
Why does America keep allowing toddlers to shoot themselves?
Follow the link for their answers.
You know my answer: Too many guns, too much stupid.
Establishmentarians 0
Truthout tracks their attempts public schools into pulpits for proselytizing. Here’s a bit of their report:
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
All the coverage I’ve read and heard about the recent presidential debate–well, almost all–seems to focus on appearances, on how persons looked and sounded.
Very little seems to concern what persons actually said.
Methinks it more important to focus on the substance, which leads in a much different direction.
“Insane from the Top Down” 0
Methinks Farron may be onto something.
Unprecedentedly Partisan 0
Michael in Norfolk, a lawyer with decades of experience, notes that
Follow the link for context.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” indulges in a random act of politeness.
. . . just in case you needed more evidence that we are a broken society.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler argues that life has started to echo Monty Python.
As the comedy troupe Monty Python once said, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
I certainly didn’t expect it in Oklahoma.
But Inquisition 2024 came to our neighboring state on Thursday, when Oklahoma’s authoritarian superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters, issued an edict that every classroom from fifth to 12th grade must have a Bible in it, and every teacher, regardless of their own beliefs, has to teach from it — or else.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
And, in a related piece, Marty Ryan points out that there is a certain–er–lack of consensus on the number and wording of the Ten (or so) Commandments.
A Close Encounter 0
Yesterday, as I was running an errand, I saw a Tesla Cybertruck sitting at a red light.
The darn thing is uglier in real life than I imagined from pictures of it.
It is a crime against design.
A 1958 Ford Elsel looks elegant in comparison.
Afterthought:
Every time I see a Tesla, there’s this moment of near-panic when I think, “I hope the driver isn’t stupid enough to be using Tesla’s autopilot.”