“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a load of all this 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.
Russian Impulses 0
Republican Ken Buck, who resigned his post in the House of Representatives in disgust, comments on the Greene raw deal.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
Trump’s Money Shtick 0
Seth follows the money.
“Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?” 0
Republicans keep asking that question.
At the Bangor Daily News, Michael Avery Sr. responds:
Follow the link for the rest of his response.
(Broken link fixed.)
Eclipsing the Facts 0
Sam and the crew discuss the eclipse nut jobs.
Eclipses are natural phenomena. They happen. They are predictable.
They are not signs from God. They are not omens.
They are things that happen, like tides and seasons and snow storms.
Aside:
Honest to Betsy, Rudy Giuliani now looks for all the world like Gollum come to life.
Russian Impulses 0
Michael in Norfolk points out the same Republicans are starting to realize the extent to which Russian propaganda has infected their base. Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
We are a pathetic polity.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
This time, it’s the Chicago Tribune’s Sean Kim Butorac who hears a rhyme from over two centuries ago.
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*Mark Twain
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, John Archibald looks at a bill currently being deliberated (I use that term very loosely) by the Alabama legislature (another term I use very loosely) and wonders
Could a librarian be arrested for shelving the Bible where minors can find it?
Follow the link to see what led him to ask such a question.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
More mean for the sake of mean.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At NorthJersey.com, Jim Beckerman asks how dis discourse became dis coarse. Here’s how he starts his article:
“It” being: everything. Our current mess. The low information, disinformation, gullibility and hysteria that are breaking out like measles during Election 2024. Who was the prophet — if only we had listened! — who warned us it was all coming? And begged us to do something before it was too late?
George Orwell, with his doublethink and his thought police? Richard Hofstadter, who warned us about The Paranoid Style in American Politics? Maybe.
But there’s another thinker, less well known, who may have nailed it better than either.
Follow the link to learn who, in Beckerman’s opinion, correctly foresaw the current state of dis coarse discourse and his reasons for reaching that opinion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind. A snippet:
According to the Lake County sheriff’s office, deputies were called to West Rose Avenue near Mundelein at approximately 2:50 p.m. Saturday for a report of a 17-year-old with a gunshot wound to his left leg.
The teen at first told deputies he was standing outside with two friends when a vehicle approached and someone inside the car shot at them.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.