Facebook Frolics 0
We are a society of stupid.
We will believe stuff we read on a computer screen, but, if the same stuff came in the mail, we wouldn’t even open the envelope.
Vaccine Nation 0
An anti-vaxxer debates Sam about vaccinations. The result is predictable.
Aside:
Unfortunately, we have no vaccine against stupid.
The Fear Marketplace of Ideas 0
Along these lines, in the context of a longer editorial about efforts to ban books in schools because reading books might lead to (gasp!) thinking, my local rag today points out
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Court that Eschews Precedent 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Roanoke Times poses an inquiry.
What’s in a Name? 0
Well, quite a bit, actually.
Such as casting a patina of legitimacy over treason, just to pick a for instance.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Still rising again after all these years, oh so politely.
“Looks Like We’ve Got Us a Convoy! 0
The stupid. It burns.
Oh, in regards to the stupid and the price it exacts, Josh Gohlke runs the numbers.
All the News that Fits, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
Sam and his crew dissect Republicans’ votes against President Biden’s efforts to deal with the shortage of baby formula.
Courting Disaster, Reprise 0
Jesse Robison, writing at the Idaho State Journal, considers the proposed? pending? Supreme Court decision the abrogating women’s rights to abortions. He notes several arguments against that decision, but I think this gets to the heart of the matter:
It’s all about barefoot and pregnant, folks.
Follow the link for his other observations.