As always, there’s a focus on some headline stories and a perhaps unconscious stifling of others. Here’s what’s going on now, and what’s been going on, while you’ve been doing other things.
– The French ran a sub-launched ballistic missile (more…)
Month: June 2020
Voting Is Not Enough
Every four years like clockwork there’s a major campaign designed to guilt people into going out to vote. And every four years like clockwork we’re presented with a choice between two of the most detested humans on the planet. In 2020, it’s more of the same.
Even the exceptions (more…)
Breonna and Kasey
Breonna Taylor was shot in bed by police on 13 March 2020 during a no-knock drug raid aimed at a pills-by-mail scheme. The targets of the warrant were already in police custody at the time of the raid. (more…)
Tuscon and the First Amendment
It’s been floating around all weekend, and early this evening the Arizona ACLU announced a flyer campaign. Apparently they’re hoping for protests, if America’s protesters can fit anything else into their busy schedule. Our money’s on the whole story getting lost in the shuffle; the public has gotten pretty protest-weary — but we’ll see what happens.
On April 21st, during one of a series (more…)
It’s Not The Cops
There’s a slogan: A.C.A.B., or “All Cops Are Bastards”. The premise is, if you’re a good person you don’t join the side of the oppressor. You don’t don jackboots and riot gear. You don’t swing the club, and you don’t launch tear gas.
It’s a good slogan; effective, it’s viscerally appealing. It speaks to us where we live.
And yet it’s wrong. Not completely, as you’ll see, but fundamentally. (more…)
The Not Fake News Update: 04 June 2020
As always, there’s a major story in the news that’s drowning out coverage of everything else. So, worthy though it is of notice, I’ll be leaving the George Floyd protests out of this and telling you about a few other things that you might have missed:
– SpaceX made its first crewed launch for NASA, successfully transferring (more…)
A Glorious Hope
I’ve spoken with an awful lot of angry people this morning. Most are also terrified. It’s hard not to be when you wake up and look around, and all you see is ashes.
Take heart, my friends! Be of good cheer! For I tell you truly, today is a day of vast possibility, containing with it a hope for a glorious future.
No, I haven’t snapped, and I’m not drunk (more…)
No Lives Matter
Protesters are marching under a banner that reads “Black Lives Matter”. They do this because it seems pretty evident some folks disagree, judging only based on the number of peaceful arrests for what are usually non-crimes that turn into black people being dead.
It’s a slogan that begs (more…)
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