And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
(Broken link fixed.)
The News Cycle Spiral
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The Pack of Lone Wolves 0
Thom eviscerates the myth of the “lone wolf” mass shooter.
The Fetishists 0
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony Norman tries to understand (some) Americans’ fascination with projectile-propelling portable phalli.
No excerpt or summary can do this article justice. Just go read the whole thing.
Buffaloed on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
The SPLC dissects the misdirection play. Here’s how the article begins; follow the link for the evidence.
In the wake of the Buffalo, New York, mass shooting, veteran disinformation posters on Twitter such as male supremacist Mike Cernovich and Malaysia-based RT (formerly Russia Today) contributor Ian Miles Cheong led a campaign to suggest that the terrorist harbored a left-wing ideology . . . .
Hate and Mongers of Hate 0
Seth skewers points out the internal contradictions in the right-wing’s racist “great replacement theory” myth lie.
We are a society of stupid.
Implicit 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, discusses the importance of voting in a era in which Christofascists (to borrow a term from Michael in Norfolk) would seize control of women’s bodies. In the course of his article, he notes an implication of the impending ruling which I have not seen mentioned elsewhere (emphasis added):
And remember this: A government that can force a woman to carry a baby to term can also justify a decision telling her she cannot carry a baby to term. Think China if you are the least bit confused about that.
Follow the link for the rest of his article.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ensure that your children are exposed to politeness at an early age.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
While Republicans keep attempting to score points by hinting that there was something sinister (yet undisclosed) on Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop hard drive, Donald Trump actually physically stole top secret government documents and took them to Mar-a-Lago, in a breach of national security and every record-keeping protocol imaginable. Somehow the Repubs haven’t wanted to weigh in on that. Nonetheless, a federal grand jury has now been convened to investigate just that, and they don’t convene grand juries for illegally sharing casserole recipes.
All the News that Fits 0
Afterthought:
A “free marketplace of ideas” is of no use if you don’t stroll its aisles from time to time.
Our Mounting Multiplicity of Massacres 0
Gina Barreca thinks it’s time to stop with the double-talk about America’s recent spate of racist, bigoted mass shootings, most of them by young white men, boys even. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
This is not about mental health; this is about guns, race, anti-Semitism, misogyny, ignorance, and social media. They get onto distorted and deforming social media platforms and then—whoosh, they are gone—down the drain of cults, 4Chan, and conspiracy theory.