Twits on Twitter, Phoenix Tempers Rising Dept. 0
E. J. Montini reports on a Twitter brawl about the recent election that seems to be engulfing the Arizona Republican Party. A snippet; follow the link for the blow-by-blow.
Thus Twitter continues to elevate the level of dis coarse discourse.
The Lord Emperor of Dunes 0
Take the quiz and see how much you know about the duffer-in-chief.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“The investigation revealed that 42-year-old Eric Carpenter was handling a rifle in his apartment when the gun was fired. The shot fired left Carpenter’s apartment and hit and fatally wounded Lidia, who was in an adjacent apartment.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Aside:
I note the passive voice: “the gun was fired.” Also, what’s with “apparent gunshot wound”?
Parallels 0
Will Bunch joins Sam and his crew to discuss the similarities between Frank Rizzo and Donald Trump. (My two or three regular readers will know that I link to Bunch’s articles fairly regularly.)
Read the Will Bunch’s article about Rizzo and Trump.
Strategization 0
Along the same lines, David Atkins tries to make sense of what’s happened to the Republican Party. A nugget:
Image via Juanita Jean.
Loan Rangers 0
Paul Mulshine explores the student loan debacle. He says that it’s not the students who are at fault; it’s the lenders and their enablers in business and government. A snippet:
He used as an example his own alma mater, Duke University.
“When I went to duke in 1974, the tuition was $2,300 a year,” he said. “Now it’s over $50,000.”
Follow the link to see how he builds his case.
Maskless Marauders 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Thomas Henricks identifies several characteristics which characterize persons who refuse wear masks, in spite of the evidence that it may be the best weapon to combat the spread of COVID-19. Here is his list; follow the link for a detailed definition and description of each one.
- Denial.
- Fatalism.
- Fear of Change.
- The cult of self-interest.
- The shame-anger conversion.
- Group loyalty.
- Countervailing Information.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Websites wielding weaponized widgets perpetuate petabytes of prevarication in these viral times.
“Pointing and Laughing” 0
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite as you survey the product displays in your local exclusive retail outlet.
“It appears the shot was accidental and no one was injured by the bullet,” a police spokesperson said.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
WVEC, my local ABC-affiliated television station, has an excellent article about the raising of Confederate monuments across the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The writer does an excellent job of placing those memorials to treason in context; if you don’t understand what the statues and the movement to remove them (is that a removement?) is about, I urge you to give it a read
It includes this prophetic quotation from John Mitchell, who edited a black newspaper in Richmond, Va., during that time period:
Maskless Marauders 0
Bill Parks is fed up.
Facebook Frolics 0
When I first saw headlines about this lawsuit, I had mixed feelings about it.
There are no good guys in this picture, at least not so long as the Trump you-really-can’t-call-it-an Administration keeps lowering the Barr.