Recommended Viewing 0
The Best Years of Our Lives, a superb movie about the challenges faced by veterans returning from WWII. I suspect that veterans returning from other wars have faced similar challenges.
If you can find it, watch it. We saw it on TCM.
Afterthought:
I don’t know that my father faced such challenges upon his return from WWII, but I do know that he saw and endured things that persons on the homefront never had to see or endure.
He fought fascism in Europe.
He would be appalled and ashaned to know that we now must needs fight fascism at home.
Swiftvoting 0
Sam and the crew discuss the rightwing’s freakout over Taylor Swift’s having the unmitigated gall to encourage young persons to register to vote.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” who didn’t know his responsibility was loaded–and was too stupid to check.
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.
Missing the Point 0
Gene Collier suggests that the hullabaloo over the Iowa caucuses is not addressing the key issue in this election year. Here is what he thinks is being overlooked/ignored; follow the link for why he said that.
Future elections: yea or nay?
Establishmentarians, Reprise 0
At Above the Law, Thomas Mill decodes de code.
“A God among Men” 0
Afterthought:
If Elon Musk, just to pick one rather obvious example, has demonstrated anything, it’s that our society really needs to stop equating bank balances to IQ points.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Establishmentarians 0
At the Kansas City Star, professors Victoria Johnson and Karen Piper take a look at the unholy alliance between right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians and today’s Republican Party. Here’s a brief bit of their piece:
Fundamentalists within many religions believe their interpretations are the absolute truth, and that those who oppose their claims to speak for God are characterized as evil and must be converted or destroyed. Such religious beliefs are used to maintain authoritarian political control today in theocracies such as Iran and Afghanistan, and supported the legitimacy of past monarchies in France and Great Britain through the “divine right of kings” — which is one reason America’s Founding Fathers were adamant about the separation of church and state.
The Rest of the (Creation) Story 0
Yastreblyansky fills us in on what happened on the eighth day.