Woke to the Misdirection Play 0
LZ Granderson argues forcefully that the “wokeness” at universities is not the issue that some persons are trying to make it out to be. In his article, he calls out the misdirection play (emphasis added):
The criticism is all part of a larger bid to dismantle the attributes of diversity in general and on campus specifically. That’s why the question of merit arises from affirmative action programs, not from legacy admissions or the power of the donor class.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Suffer the Children 0
Shorter Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen: Let them eat cake.
A Tune for the Times 0
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Manifest Dynasty 0
Thom looks at the intellectual rationales plutocrat propaganda used to justify This New Gilded Age.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
. . . and another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
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.
The Electric (Car) Bugaloo 0
Nikolai Tesla must be rolling over in his grave with embarrassment to have his name associated with this outfit.
QOTD 0
Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:
The lion is only the second most dangerous animal. The first is man.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump’s role in fomenting insurrection disqualifies him from appearing on the 2024 ballot in Colorado under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, an amendment which was passed after–er–an insurrection. This was properly a state matter because, in the United States, individual states are responsible for administering elections.
From the Denver Post:
“We conclude that because President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three (of the 14th Amendment), it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list President Trump as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” the court’s majority opinion says. “Therefore, the Secretary may not list President Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, nor may she count any write-in votes cast for him.”
Trump is expected to appeal to the Supreme Supremacist Court. (It may be the only time in his long history of litigation that he does not try to draw things our as long as possible.)
I do not think it a foregone conclusion that the Court will accept his appeal or rule in his favor,* but that’s just me.
But if they do accept his appeal, we might finally have an answer to this question:
How many laws must a lawbreaker break before breaking the rule of law?
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*A majority of the Justices might be happy never to hear his name again . . . ..
The Fifth Column 0
Afterthought:
If Dwight Eisenhower, Ev Dirksen, and Nelson Rockefeller came back from the grave, they would be deeply ashamed of what their Republican Party has become.
Heck, for that matter, even Richard Nixon would likely be less than pleased.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner.”
Another car.
Another improperly stored firearm.
Our society’s addiction to lead is killing us.