Vaccine Nation 0
Sam and his crew dissect another lie from James O’Keefe’s inaptly named Project Veritas.
Conning with Gas 0
Clarence Page looks at the GOP’s ginned up gasp-fest about gas stoves. A snippet:
Rest easy, the Biden administration says. No such raids are planned to snatch your stove or any other home appliances. But to some influencers, particularly of the right-wing persuasion, the rumor itself was too tantalizing to be encumbered by anything so quaint and tiresome as facts.
Follow the link for the facts.
Plus ca Change 0
Boston University professor Joshua Pederson suggests the concern that students will use ChatGPT, the “artificial intelligence chat bot,” to cheat on assignments is somewhat overblown. A snippet (emphasis added):
Limitations of Statues 0
It’s been a long time since I visited Richmond, Va.
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, though, the whole family would sometimes accompany my father when he had to go there on business, where we would stay at a hotel that is no longer a hotel. I have fond memories of agonizing over which two 35-cent Pocketbooks to buy with the dollar my mother had given me at a department stores which no longer exists and of lunching at a Hot Shoppes cafeteria, along with recollections of the imposing statues of Confederate leaders along Monument Avenue.
Those statues were part and promotion of the myth of the “Lost Cause,” that attempt to paint those persons and the movement they led as something other than what it was, that is, a treasonous rebellion to preserve chattel slavery. (As I have mentioned before, it may have been one of the most effective propaganda campaigns in history.)
Those statues are now gone, all removed within the past two years.
At SLANTblog, F. T. Rea, a native Richmonder, reflects on their removal and the suddenness thereof.
His article is worth the few minutes it will take to read.
When “Smart” Is Stupid 0
There’s a reason why, when we needed a couple of new appliances to replace ones who had given up the ghost after many years of long and faithful service, I said to the sales rep, “I don’t want anything ‘smart.'”
Insanity . . . 0
. . . is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
Blaming the Shoulder 0
Every time I think we have plunged to the deepest depths of stupid, I am proved wrong.
The Unnecessary Question 0
Michael Paul Williams has some thoughts about the motives for the muting:
“It’s not just anti-Blackness. It is an explicit act of legislating white ignorance … because they are being robbed of their history as well,” she said of white students.
She recalled the 2020 movement for Black lives after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer . . .
“There were too many white young people out there marching with Black people hand in hand,” Guy said. “That is the biggest concern that they have … white people being educated.”
Image via Job’s Anger.