It seems to me that “Cops have the right to kill you if you inconvenience them in any way” is not any kind of fundamental principle for a healthy society. It is, however, an excellent fundamental principle for an authoritarian police state. An awful lot of Americans would do well to give some thought into what kind of country they really want to be living in. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Well…that’s that, then. I hope he said hello to Kissinger on his way to the lake of fire. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
As someone who focuses on results, I’m not seeing too much difference here. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
I’ve observed the loudly negative reaction to a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny being named the performer at halftime of the upcoming Super Bowl with…not amusement, actually. More of a headshaking, “There they go again” kind of thing. The reaction of America’s right to anything cultural is obnoxious because it’s rooted in white supremacy, obviously…but it’s also tiresome and just plain boring. I do note one specific “talking point” I’ve heard a lot about this: people demanding how can this guy be the halftime show at the Super Bowl?! They’ve never heard of him! Surely the NFL could pick an actual huge star! The fact thatDown the rabbit hole….
…is that I’d rather live in less interesting times. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
(This post is adapted from something I wrote on Facebook.) As much as I like to hope that the United States has not actually entered its period of long decline, it seems like not a week goes by–and sometimes it’s not a day going by–when I’m not offered at least one data point in support of the idea that yes, we are indeed circling the drain and our time as the forefront nation in the world is almost up. Now, I’m not entirely sure how I feel about that, but it’s the manner of our onward march into unseriousness that bothers me. ItDown the rabbit hole….
Killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a particularly galling move. True, I knew it was coming, but even so…it’s just so frustrating watching Republicans kill everything that actually made this the country I grew up in, as they set about creating some stupid fantasy cosplay version of the country they WISH they grew up in (and which a lot of them are going to realize is a country that sucks, once they’re actually LIVING in it). Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
In the “Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying” department, a snippet from Friends that seems to me sadly applicable. Joey’s refrigerator has given up the ghost, and his solution was…this. Happy birthday, America. I guess. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Remembering this day those who lost their lives fighting in wars under the American flag. I make no attempt this day to adjudicate the justness of any of those wars; there are other days for that. (image credit) Every year on this date I listen to this song. It’s been done by many artists, so here it is by the Dropkick Murphys. This song is one of the best artistic meditations on the awful futility of war that I know, because those last words are so absolutely true: “It all happened again, and again, and again….” I don’t find aDown the rabbit hole….
One somber, one celebratory. The first one happened three years ago today. The Wife and I were vacationing in the Finger Lakes region that weekend, and we got back to our cottage after a day visiting the Glass Museum in Corning (or maybe we were in Ithaca that day, and Corning the next)…we checked social media for the first time in hours, and I found multiple messages from people asking if I was safe because they knew I worked at a grocery store in Buffalo. That’s when I was horrified to learn that some racist lunatic decided to arm himselfDown the rabbit hole….