(D)Evolutionary Marcionism
It must be anti-Bloggingheads day on TLOG. William B. wrote this post criticizing Bob Wright’s piece in The Atlantic. Freddie is blasting away at Mickey Kaus. And I’m about to pile on Wright’s piece...
Chris Dierkes
/// April 1, 2009
It must be anti-Bloggingheads day on TLOG. William B. wrote this post criticizing Bob Wright’s piece in The Atlantic. Freddie is blasting away at Mickey Kaus. And I’m about to pile on Wright’s piece...
Erik Kain
/// April 1, 2009
The kerfuffle over the Obama commencement at Notre Dame has sparked a lot of rather boorish commentary. A more nuanced approach is hard to find, but not impossible:
Freddie
/// April 1, 2009
OK – I am not a connected guy. I don’t live in Washington DC. I don’t work for a think tank, magazine, political action campaign, or anything of the sort. I am the last...
Erik Kain
/// April 1, 2009
I’ve been struck since this blog’s inception but especially over the last couple of weeks by just how top-notch the comments section is especially compared to much of what passes for discussion across the...
William Brafford
/// April 1, 2009
I had to cough-barf my way through Robert Wright’s article on religion and globalization in the April 2009 Atlantic. It’s called “One World, Under God,” and it tries to explain the spread of early...
Erik Kain
/// April 1, 2009
The Guardian is reporting that it’s ditching ink and paper in favor of Twitter. From now on all news stories will come in the form of tweets, propelling the newspaper way, way ahead in...
Will
/// April 1, 2009
Looking for a glimpse into the conservative foreign policy id? Try National Review’s Rich Lowry, whose latest techno-thriller has just been published: After learning that an Iranian scientist is in the process of developing...
Dave
/// April 1, 2009
I’m now a neoconservative. You nihilists are now done for. My moral clarity trumps all. Ok, April Fools although I do have the asshole part down pretty well.
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
(Featured image is "Free Bird" by Ennev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Comment →From DFW's CBS:
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in the murder of Botham Jean.
The federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Dallas is now allowed to proceed once an amended lawsuit is filed.
We discussed Amber Guyger getting indicted here.
We discussed her trial here.
(Featured image is Botham Jean from The Botham Jean Foundation/Facebook)
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