The Dissimulator 0
Michael in Norfolk the results of Tuesday’s election, then he looks at the man the reaction of Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin–er–Youngkin and concludes that it’s all an act. A snippet:
Much Ado about a Misdirection Play 0
Sure, Biden is old. For that matter, so am I, but I’m benching 145. I’d bench more, but I work out at home and don’t have a spotter.
What’s left out of the–er–discussion is that Trump is also old. And I’ll give you a dollar to a doughnut that’s he’s not benching 145, or even 14.5.
Well, 145 doughnuts, maybe, but not pounds of free weights.
From where I sit, the whole who-shot-john about Joe Biden’s age is lttle more than a racist dog whistle about Kamela Harris, who was an excellent attorney-general of California and is a decent and upstanding person who happens to be not-white.
And the racist dogs are barking their heads off.
I’m a Southern Boy.
I grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.
Afterthought:
Can you imagine Donald Trump riding a bicycle?
For that matter, can you imagine a bicycle that will hold up under Donald Trump?
The Candidates Debase 0
Seth takes a closer look at the Republican candidates’ it-was-billed-as-a debate.
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports on Donald Trump;s efforts to protect his freedom of screech.
I linked to this yesterday, but, really, Gene Collier nailed it.
The Candidates Debase 0
Jim Wright watched the Republican candidates debate so we didn’t have to.
I sure didn’t waste my time watching it. I’ve successfully avoided Silence of the Lambs all these years.
I’m certainly not going to subject myself to Squeals of the Damnable.
The Pick-up Artist 0
I pulled into the parking lot at our DL gathering place behind a ginormous pick-up–you know, one of those pick-ups bought by guys who don’t really need a truck.
The pick-up had fronted into a parking place near the entrance to the little parking lot, then, as I entered the lot, started to back out.
When he saw me, he stopped.
Fortunately.
I went past him and backed into my own parking spot a few places down and continued listening to a podcast until it came time to enter the facility (I prefer to back in; it makes pulling out safer). He then finished backing out of his space, drove a few spaces over in my direction, paused for a moment as if uncertain of what to do, and then tried to back into the space next to me.
I was beginning to question his–er–accuracy when he stopped, looked in his mirrors for a moment, then gave up, and moved on down the lot around the corner and out of my sight.
And I thought to myself, “Buddy, the last place you need to be going is to a bar dining establishment which serves alcohol.”
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Still Rising Again after All the Years 0
They showed their “core value,” yes, indeedy do.
The Art of the Con 0
Thom marvels at Americans’ susceptibility to the charms of the charlatan.
Out of the Mouths of Boobs 0
Rick Santorum says the (Republican) quiet part out loud.
Patriot Gamers 0
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tom O’Connor argues rather disturbing precedent for Donald Trump’s patriot gaming.
While on the topic, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier channels Maya Angelou and says that Trump has shown us who he is.
QOTD 0
Josephine Tey in The Daughter of Time:
It is an odd think, but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset.
Aside:
I wonder if I somehow inadvertently got some kind of bootleg copy. Per the cover, it was printed in Columbia, SC, on 2020-11-08, but it bears no publishers imprint and the pages are numbers, nor are there any chapter headings.
The quotation, in any event, rings true.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy tries to make sense of senselessness.
Seg Academies Redux 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, and my previously all-white high school started to integrate, suddenly two private all-white schools sprang up in my rural community (I think one of them still exists). To be blunt, they enrolled kids of white parents who were afraid of black folks.
That’s why we called them “seg academies.”
Those of us who stayed in the public schools and got to know and study and play sports with the black kids (who I am certain were carefully screened and chosen to be the early integrators of the previously all-white schools in those early days of integration) looked on those schools–well–somewhat contemptuously. We were in school with the black kids, we got to know them at least a bit, and we realized that they were people like us. True, we may not have gotten to know them all that well, but we got to know them enough to realize that they were human beings like us.
Later on, when I was well out of school, my mother, who was a math teacher, taught for many years in my county’s now-integrated school system. More than once, she told me that they had more problems from (oh what the heck, white) parents than they ever had from students. She was born and raised in South Carolina, but she was able to rise above prejudice to see persons.
And now comes Thom to point out that the proponents of seg academies are still around and still trying to pervert public education to promote racial prejudice.
The Chaos Gambit 0
Dick Polman takes a look at Donald Trump’s behavior in court. A snippet: