Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I commend to your attention Bob Nightengale’s article on Reggie Jackson’s recent remarks on what it was like being a black man playing minor league baseball in the South in the 1960s.
Remember that there are many who not only wish those days were still, but are working to bring them back.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness:
And, in more news of “responsible gun owners” . . . .
Ask yourself, what’s the common denominator here?
The Gold Ruse 0
The Smoking Gun reports on the con.
Follow the link for the details and remember, if some stranger on the phone sounds convincing, it may just because he’s trying to convince you.
Recommended Viewing 0
It’s sort of an Australian Forensic Files, with added dramatizations. If you’re a mystery buff like me, I think you will find it interesting.
I’m watching it on Tubi.
Speaking of mysteries, I’m rereading the Julie Williamson mysteries by William D. Andrews, and they are just as good the second time around. You can find them at Islandport Press.
A Tune for the Times 0
Bruce W. Nelson tells us more about Falcon E. DeEtte at the Youtube page:
Few folks personify REAL American-style patriots like the liberal hating, Muslim hating, gay hating, environmentalist hating, college-education hating, clean-water hating, electric car hating, government hating, rule-of-law hating, clean air hating, deodorant hating, windmill hating, solar power hating, World Bank hating, Europe hating, NATO hating, Putin loving MAGA folks. To speak on behalf of all those haters of their fellow citizens (and most other people who speak foreign languages) today we present Falcon E. DeEtte, (a man who comes from a long line of E. DeEttes) and who is soon to release his book, “The E.DeEtte’s Guide to MAGA in America”.
This New Gilded Age 0
The Des Moines Register takes issue with Iowa’s recent attempts to bring back child labor. Here’s the beginning of the editiorial:
1. The exploited children.
2. The owners and managers who scheduled the exploited children.If you picked 2, congratulations! You’ve mastered the increasingly popular art of transforming guilt into grievance.
Follow the link to learn who’s truy the victims here.
Ye Olde Misdirection Play 0
Peter Jensen has a few words to say about the “Biden is old” misdirection play. For one thing, he points out that Biden is only three years older than Trump. For another thing–well, he points out a number of other things. Here’s snippet:
Establishmentarians 0
Jimmy Kimmel highlights the hypocrisy.
If the Scribes and Pharisees of the Gospels had had a political party, it would have looked like today’s Republ–oh, never mind.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
He’s a Real Big Man . . . 0
. . . or so he would have you think.
QOTD 0
Gene Kelly, in the voice of Jerry Mulligan:
Civilization has a natural resistance against improving itself.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In an article at the Idaho State Journal, Jesse Robison posits that today’s Republican Party’s disdain for the rule of law is–er–somewhat disquieting.
Courting Disaster 0
The latest on loose Cannon law.
Establishmentarians 0
Emma and the crew delight in CNN’s Boris Sanchez’s unrelenting grilling of establishmentarian Lauren Ventrella’s duplicitous doubletalk.
Aside:
I find it somewhat disconcerting that Ventrella considers an English text of a commandment that Sanchez displayed on the screen to be the “most historical” version of it. As far as I remember, the commandments had been around for two or three millennia before being rendered into English.
Then, again, we are a society of stupid, which idolizes the ignorant and venerates the vacuous.
