The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has the back story. Here’s a bit:
A brief review of the record is in order.
Lake lost her challenge to the Nov. 8 election in Superior Court.
She lost at the Arizona Court of Appeals. She largely lost at the Arizona Supreme Court, though the justices returned one claim to the trial court judge for a second look.
And on Monday, she lost that one, too, after a three-day trial in which Judge Thompson relaxed the court rules and allowed her bumbling attorneys a remarkable amount of latitude to make their case.
But, natch, Kari Lake vows to keep on fighting.
The Fallacy behind the Falsehood 0
At The Roanoke Times, Tim Harvey looks at the recent surge in unprovoked shootings and argues that it exposes the fallacy of the NRA’s long-running “politeness” propaganda pitch. An excerpt (emphasis added):
(snip)
The assumption behind the “armed society is a polite society” myth is that someone being armed will change the other person’s behavior. These shootings reveal how being armed changes one’s own behavior. When the gun is viewed as the first response to a situation that is not fully understood — especially when a gun owner is disinclined to identify alternative responses — then people are killed or maimed unnecessarily. It is the tragic realization of the old proverb, “When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
The Whitewashing 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell takes look at Florida’s whitewashing (here’s a particularly outrageous and stupid example) of America’s history; he finds the implications thereof disturbing because, well, they are. (And, natch, it’s not going on just in Florida.)
A snippet:
The leader of a Holocaust Center made a similar point recently stressing: “The Holocaust, it didn’t start with guns and death camps. It started with words.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness . . .
(snip)
Day care employees contacted the toddler’s parents after seeing the child stumble, bleeding from the face, while playing in a fenced-in area outdoors.
. . . yet more evidence that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
know Them by the Company They Keep Out 0
Methinks my old friend Noz makes a good point.
Foxy Shady 0
David comments on the shamelessness of it all. (Warning: Short commercial at the 4 1/2 minute mark.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Full story at the link.
Aside:
I’ve eaten my share of Hot Pockets over the years, especially when I lived alone, but, really, not a one I ever ate was tasty enough to be worth a jail term . . . .
We are a society of stupider.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
They explore new frontiers of fiendliness every day.
(Boy, am I glad that my days of hopping on airplanes for business trips are behind me.)
Twits on Twitter 0
That seductive siren, “social” media, vamps the unwary and the stupid into forgetting that the internet is a public place.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Who funds the fusillade of falsehoods?
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Paul Wagman follows the money and finds an internet advertising company named Decide, which appears to be in it for the Benjamins. A snippet:
But a St. Louis company that for several years has helped make these kinds of far-right websites viable — a company that helps to finance them while at the same time making money off of them — continues to operate here without the slightest repercussions.
A Pillow of the Community 0
I would not be surprised to find out that Mike Lindell’s favorite beverage is welcher’s grape juice.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
And if you need more evidence . . . .
Durham’s Bull 0
Sam and his crew take a look at right-wing media’s attempt to pretend that there’s a there there.