" We have met the enemy and he is us. " POGO The brazen pre-meditated murder of nine African - American Christian worshipers in South Carolina, including their beloved minister, by a gun-toting, white American supremacist should serve … [Read more...]
Archives for June 19, 2015
Our investment in not giving a damn
I'm interested in the narratives that emerge from events that involve race, recently Rachel Dolezal and the Charleston shootings. It becomes apparent that many, many people have a lot invested in not giving a damn about black people at all. … [Read more...]
How Republicans became the anti-science party
An interesting piece by Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes in TomDispatch this week "Why Climate Deniers Are Their Own Worst Nightmares" ("Seventy-two percent of the Republican Senate caucus, for instance, now qualify as climate … [Read more...]
Joke Revue: “Frustrated Republicans Argue Pope Should Leave Science To Scientists Who Deny Climate Change”
All this cartoon is missing is a tiny Charlie Baker raising the Confederate flag. Dan Wasserman in the Globe: Onion: Frustrated Republicans Argue Pope Should Leave Science To Scientists Who Deny Climate Change WASHINGTON—In response … [Read more...]
Baker’s bizarre thoughts on the Confederate flag in South Carolina.
Our Governor, who many here saw as no different than the Democratic candidate, went on a friendly radio station today to support the flag flying at the S.C. capitol. His support, he claimed, was that it was matter of “tradition.” “As a … [Read more...]