A Question of Identification 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Privatization Scam 0
Thom talks with Dr. David Himmelstein about the deleterious effects of Medicare (Dis)Advantage.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you find someone’s celebration to be annoying, admonish the celebrants with politeness.
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.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A threat to the polity? Most certainly.
The Elector Rejector 0
Robert Reich looks ahead. He points out that
As usual, Trump signals what he’s planning to do before he does it.
He’s already signaled that he won’t accept the results of the 2024 election if he loses.
He then wonders
Do we still have time to harden our democracy in the fewer than five months remaining before the 2024 election?
Follow the link for the rest.
Facebook Frolics 0
Facebook frolicker gets an eight-year jail term for his hate-filled Facebook frolics.
The Idolator 0
Sam and the crew discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comparing Donald Trump to Jesus Christ.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Kansas City Star, Baptist minister Stephen D. Jones expresses grave concerns that we are in danger of losing our freedom of (and freedom from) religion under the influence of what he refers to as “white Christian nationalists” Here’s what he has to say about their motivation (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
This New Gilded Age 0
Mike and Farron discuss the exploitation economy (plus a little Tik-Tok).
The “Political Correctness” Misdirection Play 0
In an interview, Julia Louis-Dreyfus takes issue with Jerry Seinfeld’s recent complaint about what he dubbed “PC crap.”
The Veep actress said pushing back on political correctness could be a “red flag.”
“When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else,” she said. “I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.”
My take is simple.
When persons start complaining about “PC crap,” it’s generally because they don’t like being called out for being mean for the sake of mean.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Mike Lindell loses his attempt to enforce undue process of the law.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
In the midst of a longer post about a recent made-up who-shot-john over the Trump hush money financial fraud trial, Dick Polman succinctly states one reason–perhaps the primary reason–why “social” media isn’t:
It has long baffled me why persons will believe stuff they see on a computer screen when they would not believe the same stuff if it happened right before their eyse.