Grasping at a Broken Straw 0
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board if we can’t get rid of the guns, we have to get rid of the prejudice.
I reckon their hearts are in the right place.
And, in other news, pigs, wings.
Maskless Marauders 0
Northeastern University runs the COVID numbers and finds that “the median death rate for counties with the strongest Republican leaning was between 40% and 300% higher than the counties that leaned Democrat,” because, to be blunt, (these are my words, not theirs) some persons chose science and some persons chose stupid.
A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
As part of their research, the team created models based on death counts from the country’s 2,000 counties that looked at factors ranging from socioeconomic status to obesity. Even when controlling for every other variable, the team found that political affiliation factored heavily in the death rate.
We are a society of stupid.
The Peruvian Parallel 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News sees a striking similarity.
“Reactionary Populism” 0
David decodes de code.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic (emphasis on the “moronic”) “responsible gun owner” allows politeness to become child’s play.
Muskrat Love 0
Hypocrisy much?
“Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended.”
I suspect I’m not the only person who has come to suspect (to put it rather mildly) that Elon Musk doesn’t know what the heck he is doing and also does not understand the concept of accountability, which is not surprising if one has never been held accountable for anything ever.
Afterthought:
Driftglass sees a pattern here.
Twits Own Twitter, Ad Hack Dept. 0
To borrow a term from Bob Cesca, more muskery. From Techdirt, via Above the Law:
It appears that Musk’s solution to this is to force people to cough up their private info.
Momento Mori 0
For some fool reason (as my mother used to say), I find myself these past few weeks missing my old internet friend Shaun Mullen, maybe because it was three years ago this month that he passed.
We emailed regularly, but we met only once, a meeting I will always remember, dining together in Newark, Delaware, as I was on my way to visit one of my kids in Philadelphia and he happened to be in Newark for some reason of his own.
I am a better person for having known him.
Unwelcome Home 0
Mike DiMauro is taken aback by the outpouring of racism, bigotry, and hatred (in some quarters) in response to the release of Britney Griner. An excerpt from his column:
Seriously. Reading the abject hatred tethered to Griner’s rescue — the saving of a human life — made me think of Sen. Howard Baker’s classic question to bagman Tony Ulasewicz during Watergate: “Who thought you up?”
Who thought these people up? Where do they come from? Have they always been here? All I know is they’re helping us lose our humanity one keystroke at a time.
Afterthought:
I quibble with his use of the term, “amusing irony.” Frightening, appalling, disgusting, maybe, but not amusing.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society,” Reprise 0
writing in The Seattle Times, Steve Valandra, an American who has a residence in Portugal, looks at American gunnuttery from afar. An excerpt: