Tag: Uvalde

• The Bondage Of Bad Ideas

  What makes a character like Wylie Coyote so universally funny that he transcends time is that he epitomizes the bondage of bad ideas. Even before he sets out on his latest attempt to catch the Roadrunner (who, frankly, doesn’t look like much of a meal to begin with), the Coyote is doomed to fail. The […]

  A L Katz

  June 16, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Freedom, Gun Control, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery

  Slavery, Sandy Hook, Ayn Rand, Adam Lanza, Permanent Minority Rule, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Confederacy, Uvalde, AR15, Bondage, Wylie Coyote, Roadrunner, Colonial Aamerica

• “You Can’t Get There From Here” Is Such A “White” Way To Think…

  Every summer, from the time I was six until I was twelve, I went to a sleepaway camp in Naples, Maine called “Camp Skylemar“. I don’t think there’s a Skylemar memory that isn’t happy. I was independent from the womb onward, so, the distance from camp to home (I grew up in Baltimore) didn’t concern […]

  A L Katz

  June 2, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, Second Amendment

  Camp Skylemar, Downeast, Gun ownership, James Madison, Keep and bear arms, Maine, Naples Maine, Second Amendment, Sleepaway Camp, Uvalde, Well Regulated Militia

• What If We Stopped Calling Them “Guns” And Started Calling them “Death Machines” Instead?

  Stone cold fact: from the get-go, guns were imagined as a way to kill living things more efficiently than the technologies preceding it could. One can mass murder people with a bow and arrow but it’s way harder than doing it with an AR15. Way harder. Yeah, sure, one can take out a crowd with […]

  A L Katz

  May 25, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Second Amendment

  Adam Lanza, AR15, Bow and arrow, Death Machines, Design Specs, Greg Abbott, Gun Control, Guns For Sale, Nancy Lanza, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, Uvalde