“The new head of the British Army warned soldiers that they must prepare ‘to fight in Europe once again,'” AOL News reported on Sunday, June 19, 2022 (read story here). Gen. Patrick Sanders, on his first day in office, seemed to foresee a wider war when he spoke of a need “to[...]
Archive for June 19th, 2022
June 19th, 2022 - 6:24 pm § in Politics
Why are Republicans crazy? Do we need to know?
While polls show nearly 6 in 10 Americans think Trump should be prosecuted, fewer than 1 in 5 Republicans agree (see story here). During the pandemic, Republicans fiercely resisted life-saving measures like vaccines and masks, instead opting for ineffective quack cures. They’re not only climat[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 5:55 pm § in Law and Courts
Why I’m for the death penalty
You can put names on my reasons. Timothy McVeigh, for example, the Oklahoma City bomber who murdered 168 people, including 19 kids, and injured 680 more with a truck bomb in 1994 and was executed in 2001. Today’s name: Ricky Dubose. He was convicted this month of murdering two prison guards du[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 4:51 pm § in Science
Welcome to climate hell
Both poles are recording record-high temperatures. Scientists say they’ve “never seen anything like this,” and warn that while “a heat wave at one pole may be regarded as a warning, heat waves at both poles at once start to look a lot like climate catastrophe. But there’[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 4:46 pm § in Misc.
Caribbean literary giant dies
George Lamming, 94, “a giant of post-colonial literature whose novels, essays and speeches influenced readers and peers in his native Barbados and around the world,” died on June 4. The government of Barbados confirmed his death on Sunday, June 19, 2022. (Read story here). Educated in Ba[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 4:19 pm § in Politics
Texas GOP convention votes for guns, against gays; assaults congressman
Texas GOP delegates holding a state convention rebuked their own senator, Jon Cornyn, and 9 other GOP senators who’ve signed on for a watered-down gun bill in the wake of a slaughter of Texas school kids. They also adopted a series of positions against LGBQT people, including interfering in th[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 12:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Daring to call it treason
John A. Stormer, a prominent anti-communist crusader of the Goldwater era, published a screed titled “None Dare Call It Treason” that was wildly popular in rightwing circles (details here). The book’s title and contents implied America was losing the Cold War because its liberal el[...]
June 19th, 2022 - 10:32 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Pepper-spray racist nabbed in NYC
A Florida woman’s conspicuous attire helped New York City police nab her after she went on a pepper-spray spree against Asian-Americans. Madeline Barker (photo, right), 47, of Merritt Island, Florida, was charged with hate crimes for taunting the victims to “go back to your country”[...]