A Notion of Immigrants 0
The SPLC takes a deep dive into the growth of anti-Haitian rhetoric lies and how they feed division and hatred.
Here’s a bit from their article (emphasis added. The whole piece is worth your while.
“The extremist forces behind the Springfield attacks know that they can only succeed with division,” she wrote. “They employ the machinery of antisemitism and racism to distract from the root causes of our collective struggles and turn us against each other.”
Geeking Out 0
Some Christmas wallpaper on Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. The wallpaper is from my collection.
It Could Be Worse
It’s Just a Verse
0
Here’s a little Christmas ditty.
I hope that you will find it witty.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” isn’t.
So many guns.
So much stupid.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The Rude One hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit from his article:
It’s weapons of mass destruction all over again.
________________________
*Mark Twain.
The Art of the Con 0
PoliticalProf perceives a pattern.
QITD 0
John Byner, in the voice of Cotton Dunn:
A novice looks at a real estate ad and sees “ample parking.” I see “dirt front yard.”
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy sings a paean to this New Gilded Age.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
In response to a recent kerfuffle in TikTok, Robert Bartholomew points out that you are highly unlikely to catch chlamydia on gym equipment. However, you are very likely to catch infectious influencer-induced ignoramusness from the disinformation superhighway.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Broligarch 0
David comments on Elon Musk’s ascension to the throne and Republicans’ rationalization thereof. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite society tries to fly the fiendly skies.
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.
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . let Texas Governor Abbott introduce you to Republican family values.
