A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Releases of information from the Dominion Voting Machines lawsuit against Fox Network have that Fox commentators knew The Big Lie by Trump about a ‘stolen election’ was complete bullshit, but they pushed it anyway, knowing that it helped to boost ratings. Mangy Fetlocks offers this humble song about it.
“I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means” 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun tries to understand the Republicans’ War on Woke.
Thought Control 0
Read the article that David discusses.
Aside:
David’s distinction between Orwellian and Huxleyan dystopias provoked a thought or two.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner demonstrates that said phrase is an oxymoron.
The stupid. It burns.
Now, about those IQ tests for persons who think they should have access to firearms . . . .
Oh! In more news of gunnuttery. . . .
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini explores the evidence.
Motivations for Meanness 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bernard Golden explores seven factors which he posits contribute to group violence. Here’s part of what he says about one of them, characterized as “Relative Deprivation and Basic Needs”; follow a link for a discussion of the seven.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” is hoist on her own petard.
We are a society of stupider.
Stray Thought 0
It occurs to me that the fatal flow in Tesla’s self-driving car fantasy is that the developers–and Elon Musk–think that life is a video game.
Obsession 0
David discusses the right-wing’s obsession with transgender persons (who, remember, are an almost infinitesimal portion of the population).
Aside:
The ugly truth is that right-wing pols really dsn’t care about transgender persons one way or the other.
What they care about is using hate to get votes, because hate sells.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Greta Thunberg follows the money.
Aside:
Yesterday, I had to turn on the AC for a short while to drive some of the humidity out of the house. A few hours after I turned it off (it had done its job), the temperature dropped 30 Fahrenheits in about three hours.
Meanwhile, Down on the Animal Farm . . . 0
Jeffery Leving considers Florida Man’s attempt to prevent the teaching of America’s history and reminds us that George Orwell knew whereof he writ (emphasis added):.
It’s ironic that one of the arguments DeSantis is making in favor of limiting what can be taught in schools is that these actions are in the interest of academic freedom — when the exact opposite appears to be true. It reminds me of another Orwell quote, from his novel “Animal Farm”: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Riding the Republican Road 0
Aside:
I never drove the L. I. E. The few times my job took me to Long Island, I cut across Staten Island to the Verrazzano Bridge to the Belt.
I had a gig in Amityville once. It was not horrifying. In fact, it was rather nice.