Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.
Courting Disaster 0
Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, fears that the current Supreme Supremacist Court is forsaking the rule of law for the rule of flaw. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he said that.
Stray Question 0
As I was watching a television commercial, a question occurred to me:
Can I get a Bachelors of Transgressing from Strayer University
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
A 2-year-old died in the hospital after police say she “accidentally shot herself.”
Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Hampton police went to the 500 block of Marcella Road after a call about a shooting, according to a recent press release. Officers found a 2-year-old suffering from a single gunshot wound, and she was taken to a local hospital. . . .
Thus passeth another child in the NRA’s Garden of Eden Ending.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Seth dissects Republicans’ pretense that Donald Trump is somehow not the person that he is.
Gazing at Gaza 0
I think this post from Lawyers, Guns, and Money goes a long way to helping me understand why I have so many mixed(-up) emotions about the conflict in Gaza. I commend it to your attention.
H/T Noz for bringing it to my attention.
American Legacy 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery refuses to go away.
It may morph and reshape, it may reclothe and redrape, but it continues to poison our polity.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire considers Vivek Ramaswamy’s behavior in the most recent Republican debate and concludes that we have a problem.
But let’s be clear. He wasn’t in Tuscaloosa Wednesday night because of legislation he’s passed or policies he has implemented.
He was there because he’s a jerk. And a certain portion of the American electorate has decided they like jerks and want more jerks to run things.
Follow the link for his evidence.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy points out that it’s probably not a good idea to hand out with the wrong people.
Freedom of Screech 0
No doubt you’ve been unable to avoid at least some coverage of the who-shot-john about the college presidents who were called to testify before the House Education Committee last week, testimony which led to the ouster of one of them.*
At Above the Law, Mark Herrmann offers a perspective on the issue raised by said who-shot-john.
I don’t know whether I agree with him, but I commend it as a worthwhile read.
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*I have paid as little attention to it as possible, primarily because I think nobody who was involved was right, everybody was wrong, and, most especialliest, nobody was thinking clearly.
The Immaculate Deception 0
Marcos Bretón looks at the recent claim by Congressman Eugene McCarthy that “that the United States has never sought land after winning a war, except to bury its war dead.” Anyone who knows anything (well, anything factual) about American history knows this to be false. Indeed, a quick web search for “manifest destiny” might be a good place to start.
And McCarthy was roundly derided for his comments.
Breton, though, argues that, in this (self-)deception, McCarthy is hardly an outlier. Here’s a bit from his article:
Follow the link for Breton’s reasoning.
