Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2020

Lachrimæ (seaven teares) ... to loot or not to lute.

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I'll just drop this one right here. For counterpoint ... and an actual review of the book ... there's Ben Sixsmith at Spectator...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Politicians paint murals, but protesters make genuine change and real history.

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Give 'em time, and we'll have statues of automobiles. I volunteer to be first in line when it comes to bringing those symbols dow...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Nick Vaughn: "A Historian’s Perspective on Confederate Statues."

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I first met Nick Vaughn in 2015 when he was younger than he is now (oddly, I haven't aged) and was running for city council in the Re...
Monday, June 08, 2020

And down came that accursed statue -- Colston in Bristol UK ... and also Castleman in Fischerland KY.

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Now we're getting somewhere: "Historic scenes were witnessed in Bristol over the weekend as Black Lives Matter protesters pulled d...

To defund police is not to abolish police. It is to reduce and reallocate police budgets.

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Photo credit: Mother Jones . From The Economist : (Order above the law) ... How to fix American policing. The country’s forces kill too...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Trump's biblical photo op? It was American history in a nutshell.

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The Economist believes  America's chronic anger  has led to this violent juncture. That's surely true. But where does the anger ...

Stick a fork in Fischer. He's done.

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I tried to watch Greg Fischer's live comments this morning. No, really. I tried mightily to maintain composure as one mealy-mouthed e...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

LIVE TO EAT: Those new clothes you're wearing, well, they're a tad threadbare. That's regrettable.

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I was working on this post when a notice from my former business popped up on social media feeds. Good for them. Pints&union w...

Joe Gerth touches all four: "Mayor Fischer is missing in action as Louisville struggles with racial issues."

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I hope you can get through the pay wall because Gerth's eloquence needs to be read in its entirety. I've converted Gerth's comm...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Bourbonism can't help us. Neoliberal frauds be gone. Greg Fischer is clothesless, and he should resign, now.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

There was Typhoid Mary, now COVID Larry. Big guns, empty heads. Servants, back to work!

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I received an e-mail from something called Liberate America, which claimed to be organizing these spontaneous protests. I hit the “Unsubs...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Learn about Käthe Kollwitz.

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Outbreak. On Sunday I posted a link to an essay in which the author, an American living in Germany, related (among other things) her vi...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Anti-advertising protests in France are an inspiring holiday season corrective.

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"Consumer Madness": Photo credit, The Guardian . Nowhere else except France could there be a "Pee in Peace" parliam...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

These seven important things about the government shutdown -- and look, not one of them has to do with Covington Catholic High School.

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The federal government shutdown has brought the dysfunction of American civilization right to our doorsteps, and yet we've spent the ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Every day, too: "NFL Owners Sure Came Off Like Dumbasses When They Met With Players About Protests."

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"Don’t ever get old. Don’t ever get rich." Terry Pegula, owner of the Buffalo Bills, might be interested to know that Charlto...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

ENOUGH New Albany and NAFC Superintendent Brad Snyder offer perspectives on Wednesday's #NationalSchoolWalkout.

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When I was in high school at Floyd Central, there was a walkout once. If an eroded memory properly serves, some upperclassmen (and women)...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Satire sinks into farce as Minneapolis "bikelash" marchers park their cars to protest "Nazi Lanes."

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Photo credit: Look at all those angry white male drivers. I hesitate passing along this information, given the existence locally of sa...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Pleasant Ridge, meet Louisville City FC: "These people having their homes is more important than a soccer stadium."

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First a protest by New Albany Housing Authority residents at last Saturday's Harvest Homecoming parade; now the targeted at Pleasant ...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

Mike Pence's NFL walkout proves our former governor still isn't "worth a bucket of warm piss."

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About which we are thankful that Dave Zirin sets matters straight about John Nance Garner's quote. Warm spit never made any sense to ...