Vaccine Nation 0
We need a vaccine against lies and lying liars on the Disinformation Superhighway.
The New Gilded Age 0
Sarah Anderson runs the numbers.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Books
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At the Tampa Bay Times, history professor Charles B. Dew–who, like me, grew up under Jim Crow–explains how he came realize how he was raised to be racist and how eventually, through education and experience, came to recognize racism for the evil it is. Now retired, he has returned to his native Florida.
Here’s how he starts his article (emphasis added):
I suspect our current governor would be just fine with this.
Follow the link, where explains what he meant with the last sentence above.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Aside:
Many years ago, during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, the highest officials from my then-segregated school district drove to New Orleans for some sort of conference. My father later told me that one of them–who went on to serve competently and honorably as the county Superintendent of Schools for many years–told him this anecdote:
In Mississippi, the atmosphere was so hostile that the travelers–all white Southerners, remember–started to fake their accents to sound even more Southern than they already did.
Then and Now 0
Then:
In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1901, William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, said,
Now:
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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
And some of them keep truly bad, bad company.
