The Rittenhouse Rules, One More Time 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, believes that, in the reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal, some questions remain unanswered. A snippet:
What is a 17-year old boy doing with a semi-automatic AR-15 military-style rifle and why does society (read that his parents, friends, others adults in his presence and the police) allow him to strap that rifle across his body and march right into a protest against police brutality in the middle of Kenosha where emotions are high, flames of burning buildings even higher, and who knows how high many of the participants on both sides of the street might be?Follow the link for more of his questions.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
She didn’t make it.
One more time, “accidentally” and “negligently” are not synonyms.
A Consumerist Economy 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear makes a convincing argument that our society is suffering from a case of consumption. A snippet:
We are a broken society.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Bangor Daily News investigates the exodus of health care workers in the second year of the pandemic. According to the story, most of the persons leaving the field worked for hospitals and nursing homes, facilities hit hardest by COVID-19. The work force at those facilities is down by about 10% in Maine, about half the national average. Some have left heath care completely; others are moving to less stressful areas within the profession.
Follow the link for details; here’s a bit that I think is particularly significant (emphasis added):
“It’s always felt a little frustrating to treat someone for something that’s preventable,” Oberson said. “People claiming it’s not real or that it’s not serious when you are seeing it first-hand.”
And, in more news of Vaccine Nation . . . .
The Scales of Justice . . . 0
. . . and the systemic thumb upon those scales.
The Rittenhouse Rules, Reprise 0
Via C&L, which notes, in part, that
Follow the link for the rest of their report.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate politeness when showing off for “social” media.
(snip)
Police determined that a 13-year-old male was handling a gun and, along with several other juveniles, trying to make a video for social media. An initial investigation led police to believe the weapon was fired accidentally.
We are a broken society.
Vaccine Nation, Have Cake, Eat It Too Dept. 0
Jonathan Weisman highlights the hypocrisy of Republicans’ blocking the road to a cure, than complaining that the cure can’t get through. A nugget:
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates hit back hard: “If COVID-19 and inflation had lobbyists to help them kill more American jobs, Kevin McCarthy would be their favorite member of Congress,” he said. “He is actively undermining the fight against COVID, which is driving inflation.”
Vaccine Nation 0
As one who remembers images of infants in iron lungs because of polio and how vaccines made polio go away, all I can say is this:
The stupid. It burns.
Shills 0
It would seem I’m not the only one bugged by all those sports (and other) betting ads that are now flooding my telly vision.
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, has a wonder:
Aside:
Personally, I spell gamble “l-o-s-e” (except for that one time I hit an exacta at Delaware Park; my then-father-in-law like the play the ponies–and he was pretty good at it, too–so we’d go to the track when he visited during racing season).
I will confess that he tutored me on how to read the racing form, but I picked those two horses myself.