The Money That Was Followed 0
In a follow-up relevant to the previous post, David and his guest, Jim Freeman, Director of the Social Movement Support Lab at the University of Denver and author of the book “Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice,” discuss how businesses and plutocrats (yes, I think that seemingly archaic term is appropriate) profit from maintaining racism.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Mother Jones follow the money.
Rugged Individualists 0
Bob Molinaro is somewhat taken aback.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky, State-Journal, opines that the (Andy) Barr has been lowered about as low as it can go.
Aside:
I went to Frankfort on business once. I have visited few cities in a lovelier setting.
It’s All about the Eyeballs 0
Nick Carraway puts his finger on a big part of the problem (and on part of the reason I gave up on television news a long, long time ago). A snippet (emphasis added):
The Excommunication 0
Frankly, I consider Liz Cheney’s political positions to be odious, but at least she is odious with integrity . . .
. . . integrity a being quality that the rest of her party seems to lack.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Meta: Misquoted 0
I inadvertently scheduled two QOTDs for today, so I rescheduled one of them.
(This happens from time to time, but I usually catch it before embarrassing myself in public.)
Geeking Out 0
Listening to The Circular Staircase with the VLC media player on Ubuntu MATE under the Fluxbox window manager. The wallpaper is from my collection.
American Taliban 0
Thom’s guest discusses the cultural similarities between American white supremacists and Muslim extremists.