Dis Coarse Discourse 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch argues forcefully that the press coverage of the “race” for the Republican presidential nomination is missing–or willfully ignoring–what’s really at stake. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Facebook Frolics 0
Gadzooks! The gullibility!
QOTD 0
Alastair Mackenzie, in the voice of Archie MacDonald, and Alexander Morton, in the voice of Golly Mackenzie:
Archie: If it exists, I hope is makes more sense than this one.
How Far Will Wells-Fargo? 0
Methinks it may not be an overreach to suggest that Wells-Fargo may have redefined the term “stagecoach hold-up.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates that said term is an oxymoron, while yet another child is sacrificed at the feet of the NRA’s leaden idol.
We are a broken society.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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An X Offender with a notion of immigrants.
Foxy Shady 0
Sam and the crew ponder the pandering.
The Story of the Moral Is . . . . 0
In a particularly timely article at Psychology Today Blogs, Dale Hartley looks at how propagandists liars use “moral panics” to roil the public and distract it from actual issues. Here’s a bit:
Given that this technique seems to dominate dis coarse discourse even as I write this, what with the fuss over trans kids in sports and truthful books in school and public libraries, the few minutes it will take to read his article are well worth your while.
The Lawyers Delay 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier takes a look at the tactics being employed by Donald Trump’s attorneys. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
His heated argument boiled down essentially to this: Your honor, my client has committed so many crimes related to these indictments that we couldn’t be expected to so much as get our arms around the depths of his depravity for at least two years.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, again, politeness becomes child’s play.
And it’s just another day in the NRA’s Pantheon to Portable Phalluses.
Patterns 0
Noah A. McGee notes a number of similarities in shootings by young white men of black persons over the past three years. The article focuses on three specific incidents: one in Buffalo, N. Y., one in Charleston, S. C., and the third–the most recent–in Jacksonville, Fla.
Here’s just one of the commonalities he enumerates; follow the link for the others.
Payton S. Gendron, the shooter who fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, wrote a manifest where he described himself as a white supremacist.
Dylan Roof, the white man responsible for killing nine Black people at a Charleston church in 2015, wrote a manifesto nearly 2,500 words long where he shared his thoughts about Black people, Jewish people, Hispanics, East Asians, and many others.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery, along with the racist mythology manufactured to rationalize it, continues to exact its toll.
More Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Apparently, there’s nothing more satisfying than kicking people when they are down.