All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
(snip)
So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Suffer the Children, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew talk with Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations, about the damage done to USAID by the Trump maladministration.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been amply demonstrated, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
For example, as Nicholas Kristof notes in a column about the Trump maladministration’s cuts to foreign aid,
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He responded to parental discipline with politeness.
Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.
The Man without a Plan 0
Stephen R. Nagy looks at Donald Trump’s (mis)conduct of foreign policy and concludes that it tends to be–er–rather impulsive. A snippet:
But the evidence increasingly cuts the other way.
Follow the link for his analysis of said evidence.
Presumed Guilty 0
Rick Stron discusses cases of black persons reported to police for being.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to poison our polity.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
If you wish to force your moral views on other, do so with politeness.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Over-hyped? El Reg reports that, paraphrasing cURL developer Daniel Stenberg, “. . . as far as Stenberg is concerned: They’re (AI bots–ed.) only as good at finding security vulnerabilities as the humans who programmed them.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
If it sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it’s the Looney Tunes theme.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet more neighborly politeness.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald grieves the Supreme Supremacist Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. He notes the role that events in Alabama, from Selma to church bombings to the murder of civil rights activists, had in leading to the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, then laments:
That Alabama would erase the brave, peaceful, legacies of Lewis and Martin Luther King and so many more is not surprising. That the federal courts would ignore those moments of hard fought freedom, the acts that gave meaning to the promise of equality, is something else.
It is heartbreaking, a halt to the progress of the 20th century, a twisting of the arc of the universe away from its just destination.