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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner . . . .

We are a society of stupid.

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Special Bonus QOTD 0

George Orwell once said,

“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Paul Krugman suggests that Sarah Huckbee Shanders’s response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address brings that quotation to life. Follow the link for the evidence.

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Oscar Wilde:

After the first glass (of absinthe–ed.) you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Stray Question 0

Does this remind you of anyone in our daily headlines?

Special bonus question:

How about this?

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“What They Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Me” 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at Florida Man’s war against history. A snippet:

DeSantis’ actions are also motivated by the reality that today’s GOP needs an ignorant population that is too poorly educated to graps that politicians like DeSantis are lying to them and who will fall for the GOP’s “god, guns, and gays” propaganda.

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Sometimes Deserts Are Just 2

Sam and his crew delight in discuss James O’Keefe’s troubles at Project (give me a break) Veritas.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Methinks the neighbor who spoke to a TV reporter after yet another child was sacrificed to the NRA’s leaden idol has a point.

“We got to stop playing around with these guns, you know,” Reggie Thompson, who lives nearby, told Kustura.

Afterthought:

I’m so old that I can remember when the NRA was about gun safety, not about gun sales.

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Facebook Frolics 0

The Ghost of Cambridge Analytica comes back to haunt cost the Zuckerborg a relative pittance.

Remember, “social” media isn’t.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Birds of a feather.

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Moses I. Finley:

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, “discovery” of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

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Republican Enlightenment–It’s Bubblicious 0

Sparky: The whole George Santos story just gets weirder and weirder and weirder.  He lies about everything.

Click for the original image.

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Faking It Is Not Making It 0

Professor of English Dennis M. Clausen is not sanguine about ChatGPT and similar so-called “artificially intelligent” chatbots, at least to the extent that students might try to use them as shortcuts do completing assignments. He writes, in part,

Based on my own classroom experiences, I have serious reservations about the new AI writing substitutes for real writing experiences. I am convinced the negative consequences will greatly outweigh the positive influences it will have on actual learning.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Image of little black girl being escorted to integrate a school during the Civil Rights struggle, captioned,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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The Human Trafficker 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Caption:  GOP-Approved School Library.  Image:  Little school girl looking at rows of empty shelves in the school library.

Click to view the original image.

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Debunking de Bunk 0

The College Board has responded to Florida Man’s efforts to white wash–I use that term advisedly–American history as taught in Florida schools. Here’s a bit of their response:

We believe every student should have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the facts and evidence of the African American experience, regardless of where those students live.

Follow the link for the complete letter, in which they debunk in a detailed in a point-by-point manner Florida Man’s bunk.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet again, politeness becomes child’s play.

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Lech Walesa:

You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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