Think wearing a mask strips you of liberty and dignity? Try being on a ventilator.
Though not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, some folks treasure the right to be epically offended by the minor inconveniences of life. Wielding the rhetoric of freedom like William Wallace’s great sword, they see themselves as hunting down liberty infringements. What is important is fiercely resisting any and all external impositions, no matter how beneficial they are to the collective good.
The opposing forces are equally committed, championing the doctrine of one-size-fits-all administered by the shoehorn of expert opinion. …
Three days into the Derek Chauvin trial, those visceral reactions so many had to the death of George Floyd are once again raw.
There are few experiences in life so visceral as watching death.
Three days into the Derek Chauvin trial, that visceral reaction so many had to the initial video of the death of George Floyd is once again raw. We’ve all seen the excruciating 9 minutes and 29 seconds of video in which the body of George Floyd was between the pavement of 38th and Chicago outside Cup Foods and the knee of Derek Chauvin. The precise moment the spirit of George Floyd left that body, we will never know.
The scene has been relived over the course of the trial…
That’s the beauty of a good Satanic Panic. Like all good conspiracy theories, all proof against it is really proof that it is real.
I wonder if somewhere within Proctor & Gamble someone who has been with the company long enough got a good chuckle out of the latest social media trend of Satanic Panic.
Oh yes, Proctor & Gamble of yesteryear, more specifically their Pampers brand of diapers, was getting the Satanic Panic treatment back in 1985 as if one of their cherub-faced mascots had rubbed their diaper-encased bottoms all over the prince of darkness himself like Lil Nas X has, to get the modern-day devil fear stoked back up.
LEAFLETS charging that the Procter & Gamble Company is an agent of Satan…
We do love us some Big Bad, don’t we? Socially, politically, historically, interpersonally…life is just simpler when there is a Big Bad
Depending on which version of the story you believe, a quote that has been used in everything from psychology studies to sermons to Avenge Sevenfold lyrics started with a room full of drunken men and an irritated lady. With the eminent and noted wordsmith Samuel Johnson present, the exasperated woman asked of the great man regarding the state of the drunkards something along the lines of “how can men make such beasts of themselves?” Johnson replied with the immortal and often-quotes “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Let us focus on the labeling and racking and stacking of generational cohort labels against each other, and how stupid that is.
So the Boomers are wagging fingers on Fox News at the Gen Xers, who are Facebooking about how they could care less about the Millennials, who are Tweeting and meme’ing the Zoomers, who are mocking all of them on TikTok. Which means, of course, this is a good trench in which to fight out the culture wars, or something.
Oh. Good. Hell. God, am I sick of this nonsense.
Let us set aside the highly questionable outrage du jour of “cancel culture” that others have been and probably will be debating for the foreseeable future. …
The first day of school ends the social experiment of one side of the road being business as schools across it where shuddered and forbidden
This morning resumed what, for most of my adult life, has been ritual from August to June of each year. Children have to get to school. Not semi-sit-up and log on to their laptops, but actually get up and go to the school building. This is the first time in over a year they have done so, due to the closing of schools because of the Covid-19 pandemic. So long, in fact, one of my…
The president’s “This Independence Day” Covid address is getting reaction. In other words, the line and imagery worked as intended.
This particular section of President Biden’s address to the country on the signing of the Covid Relief Bill has been getting lots of play and reaction:
And finally, fifth, and maybe most importantly: I promise I will do everything in my power, I will not relent until we beat this virus, but I need you, the American people. I need you. I need every American to do their part. And that’s not hyperbole. I need you.
I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn and when you can find an opportunity, and to help your family and friends…
I got my hands up, they’re playing my song, they know I’m gonna donate today. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah, it’s fundraising in the U.S.A.
I got my hands up, they’re playing my song, they know I’m gonna donate today. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah, it’s fundraising in the U.S.A.
U.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee’s cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views and was shared on social media by President Donald Trump and his eldest son.
“We raised close to $2 million,” the Republican congressional hopeful said of the three-minute spot, which showed her marching in a red dress and high heels past abandoned buildings in Baltimore, asserting that…
Trump and his CPAC speech will allow a return to the headlines. Just step back for a moment and let’s ask the questions that matter
“Hello CPAC. Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me?”
So went the opening of the hour and half speech former President Trump gave in Orlando to a crowd who had waited that long past the scheduled time to welcome the main event for CPAC 2021. “We went through a journey like nobody else, there’s never been a journey like it, there’s never been a journey so successful, we began it together four years ago and it is far from being over.”
Which is true. Trump as the dominating force of the Republican Party is far from over. The…
Instead of the “Man in the Arena” section in “Citizenship in a Republic” denizens of the ball pit republic should ponder a different section
There is nothing new under the sun, just repeats and remixes, or — in the current vernacular — rebranding of what has always been. This is because while the sloganeering of concepts changes every generation, human nature by and large does not. So it is with such a concept and term as citizenship, from its early meaning as we understand it gestating in Ancient Greece to the modern ideas of participating in society. Being good modern Americans, we sloganeer the hell out citizenship while we tend concurrently to do very little of it.
This is not a new phenomenon. The…
Andrew Donaldson
Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Vet. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag, Writings found @arcdigi & elsewhere. Writing about food, folks, & faith at Yonder & Home
