Misdirection Play 0
Methinks Solomon Jones is onto something.
The Real Groomers 2
In looking at the results of Arizona’s elections, the Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts identifies the real groowmers. A snippet:
I have had neighbors who worked the polls on election day.
It’s a grueling long day that starts before dawn and doesn’t end until the votes are counted.
They did it because they cared about the country and they cared about democracy, and they tried to do it right. If they are paid at all, the pay is de minimis.
They certainly don’t deserve to be reviled and abused by a bunch of whiny sore losers whose ultimate motivations, when you dig through the layers of gibberish and obfuscation, are racism and bigotry and hatred.
America’s Establishmentarians 0
Thom cites the Founders, who, though not perfect by any measure, were not stupid.
Muskrat Love 0
The Los Angeles Times’s Matt Pearce takes a long and thoughtful look at chaos agent Elon Musk’s stewardship (or perhaps that sever-ship) of Twitter. A snippet:
In a related vein, the EFF offers some guidance to those who might be interested in an alternative to Twitter.
Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Family Planning 0
Emma and her colleagues discuss how theocrats view sex from an exclusively male perspective and denigrate women in doing so.
Freedom of Screech 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye digs into a Federal Judge’s ruling that FLorida’s “Anti-Woke” law violates the U. S. Constitution. She quotes a bit from the decision (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 2
One more time, “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Robert Reich reflects of the new Gilded Age and the two persons who most personify it. A snippet:
But both represent the emergence of a particularly American personality in the early years of the twenty-first century: the wildly disruptive narcissist. Both wield sledge hammers to protect their fragile egos. Both are utterly lacking in empathy. Both lie, and push baseless conspiracy theories (such as the one cooked up about Paul Pelosi).
And both are indefatigable self-promoters.
Both are billionaires but they are not motivated primarily by money. Nor are they fueled by any larger purpose, principle, or ideology. Their singular goal is to imprint their giant egos on everyone else — to exercise raw power over people. To make others grovel.
As the Twig Is Bent . . . (Updated) 0
Virginia’s Governor Trumpkin is looking to bend him some twigs.
Afterthought:
Hillsdale College was in on the rewrite.
Somehow or another, I got on Hillsdale College’s propaganda mailing list.
Talk about right-wing agitprop . . . .
Addendum:
A bit of a backtrack.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and now they’re phoning it in.they’re phoning it in.they’re phoning it in.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ed Finton, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, saw the ordeal unfold.
“I woke up to gunfire,’’ Finton said. “My dog was going nuts.”
“I could see a guy standing in the middle of 80th Street with a long gun just shooting randomly,” he said. “When I saw that I called 911. The only thing I knew was the SUV had crashed into the pole.”
Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.