“The GOP has a well-established playbook for the aftermath of a school shooting: thoughts, prayers, and protecting the guns,” The Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramirez wrote after the latest mass slaying in which a heavily armed attacker murdered three adults and three children at a private.
The old saying “many a truth is spoken in jest” reminds me of a sign in a Paducah union hall from 1980: “A union member voting for Ronald Reagan is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
Imagine the public outcry if airline companies eliminated co-pilots as a first step toward a long-term goal of flying planes by remote control. What could go wrong, right? Well, railroad companies really do want to get rid of conductors, in effect, co-pilots, in freight trains.
A wave of smiles and hugs spread across the otherwise somber crowd last Thursday afternoon at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. News had broken, it seemed mainly via iPhone, that the Senate had confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
A wave of smiles and hugs spread across the otherwise somber crowd last Thursday afternoon at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. News had broken, it seemed mainly via iPhone, that the Senate had confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.