Air-Minded: Lost
Nearly every new bit of information on MA370 has followed the same trajectory: first the leak, then the breathless media frenzy, then the denial, then the qualified “maybe.”
Saturday Bag o’ Brewskis
Some subjects are so radioactive whoever touches them throws up, goes bald, and dies.
Tuesday Bag o’ Gag
Seriously, if they don’t fire Richard Cohen after this, they might as well ask for Obama’s birth certificate and endorse the Tea Party.
Wednesday Bag o’ Wrongness
Amazon-Owned Goodreads Deleting Reviews Wholesale. So reads the scare headline at Making Light. I joined Goodreads three years ago. I’d been using a shitty online book application called Visual Bookshelf to catalog books I’d read and reviews I’d written. I’ve been delighted with Goodreads, a large, active community of readers, writers, and reviewers, and to date […]
Bullets Are Tiny and Harmless!
Such is the quality of our national dialog on gun control. Right up there with “If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?”
Tuesday Bag o’ Militarization
What scares me is the thought that when law enforcement agencies have military hardware, firepower, and training, they’ll inevitably cook up reasons to use it.
Thursday Bag o’ Thuggery
So far it’s been a thuggish week. The Boston Marathon bombings. The media frenzy and over-reaction that followed. The Senate demonstrating, once again, that it thinks “democracy” is crazy talk. And now the fertilizer plant in West, Texas.
Keeping Calm & Carrying On
Get out. Go for a walk. Sit down at a sidewalk cafe. Be with people, show you’re not afraid.