Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Bangor Daily News, University of Maine professor Nicole Coffey Kellett argues that truth-full truth matters.
The Disinformation Industrial Complex 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Mary Blankenship looks at how our polity has become flooded with lies and falsehoods; she points out that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
And, in a similar vein, Robert Jay Lifton looks at a recent book about Timothy McVeigh and explores the influences that led him to violence.
Given the state of dis coarse discourse, both pieces are worth your while.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” thought the gun was unloaded.
The grandfather confirmed that he shot his grandson with a Glock .45 pistol but said he thought it was unloaded.
The Uninformed and the Uninformers 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A nugget:
Follow the link for the rest.
The Wedding Industrial Complex 0
I also had two weddings, but they were years apart and to different persons.
A Stark Choice 0
Melinda Henneberger lays it out.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Train your pets with politeness.
According to a court affidavit, Shane Braley, 36, was “extremely intoxicated” last week when he executed the dog outside his home in Jensen Beach, an Atlantic Coast locale.
None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0
. . . because, as the Rude One points out, they are terrified. He cites an article from The Atlantic (warning: language):
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Disparate treatment in the Sunshine State. Who woulda thunk?
The Marjorie Taylor Greene New Deal 0
Aside:
Methinks David’s suggested term for posts by X Offenders is well-worth adopting.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Here in NRA Paradise, it would appear that politeness is a family value.
Aside:
Many years ago, back in the very early years of this blog, I decided to pursue this topic after having seen a car with “An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” bumper stickers plastered all over it. Knowing something about guns (I was a darned good shot when I was in practice, but it’s been a long time since I lived in a place where I could safely target shoot in my back yard the way I could at Pine View Farm) and gun nuts, I recognized that sentiment to be–er–somewhat misguided. Dodge City confiscated guns for a reason back in the olden days, long before I was a young ‘un.
I set up a “news alert” with a particular online “service,” an “alert” that I haven’t modified since. Granted, the “alert” sometimes hiccoughs and includes items that don’t involve firearms, but that is very much the exception; it also sometimes references the same event in multiple notifications. In addition, many of the “alerts” reference multiple news stories. In other words, the “alert” is hardly statistical evidence in any scientific sense in and of itself, but I would argue that it is more than merely anecdotal.
Anyway, what I’m leading up to is this:
When I first set up this news “alert,” I would get maybe eight to 10 “alerts” a day, often fewer.
Now it’s usually between 30 and 40, sometimes more.
We have become a polity poisoned by poseurs possessed of their portable phalluses.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much 0
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asks an AI bot to incriminate itself, and it willingly complies.