Any world that has Dolly Parton in it is one in which hope is possible. To be in her presence is to feel the power of a soul that radiates beauty, talent, and empathy. Happy Birthday Dolly, you represent the best of what we may be.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 20, 2022
I’ve said for years now, that Dolly Parton represents the very best of us, and Trump the very worst.
Unbeknownst to Gilbert or his attorney at the time of the trial, the jury considered whether Gilbert was innocent or guilty in a room where an antique Confederate flag and a portrait of Confederate President Jefferson Davis hung.
The room, decorated with other related memorabilia, is also named for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the organization founded in the 1890s in Nashville to memorialize Civil War ancestors and memorials.
The ruling, issued Friday, found Gilbert’s defense provided enough evidence to show how a jury could be influenced while deliberating in such a room, while also making it clear Tennessee’s attorneys didn’t adequately respond to the allegations.
Bravo. More like this, please.
Censoring an artist is the ultimate obscenity.
— Bobcat Goldthwait, The History of Comedy, S1E8 “Politics Aside” (2017).
Excellent video opinion piece by Lindsay Crouse and Kirby Ferguson (of Everything is a Remix fame).
Winners never quit, and quitters never win. We Americans are told some version of this again and again. Our country wasn’t built on quitters. As Bible-loving Americans, we were taught that perserverance is virtuous, and this message finds us everywhere we go — even when we try to escape into fantasy. We demonize quitters. We think they’re pathetic. What if sometimes quitting isn’t cowardly at all, but smart? What if we’ve been wrong about quitting our entire lives?
This is an excellent, thought-provoking video.
Without a doubt, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win” is perhaps the most fallacious thing we were ever taught as kids.
It’s International Blasphemy Day!
I make jokes and all, but Blasphemy Day is is actually a very serious day, which:
educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is criminalized in many countries.
Exercise your rights people, lest they wither away.
I essentially re-post this every year:
Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms. (emphasis added)
–George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, remarks made during press conference/photo opportunity with the National Security Team, Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 10:53–10:56 AM EDT.
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Sadly, it didn’t take long for us to ‘change our way of life’ or for us to allow the government to ‘restrict our freedoms’, did it? And of course, today those freedoms have been restricted more than ever…
Josh Breslow, writing at WKRN.com:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee has the highest number of new COVID-19 cases by population of any state in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC’s coronavirus website shows Tennessee with a high level of transmission of the virus, and a seven-day case rate of 790.1 per 100,000 people.
Woo hoo! We’re #1, we’re #1!
As I said just the other day, “the average Tennessean is neither smarter nor more educated than national average, they aren’t and haven’t been wearing masks to greater percentages than the national average, and they certainly aren’t getting vaccinated anywhere near the national average.”
Ugh!
From r/libertarianmeme, posted by u/SuperHeroBrother:
Oh My Fucking God, Get The Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
Wendy Molyneux, writing at McSweeney’s:
Now that is my kind of fucking journalism!
I couldn’t possibly have said it better myself.
Go read the whole thing.
[via DF]
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