Common snakes, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Common Snakes of Texas -- “The copperhead is a small, beautifully colored and patterned snake found mostly in yards and wooded areas of East Texas but also Central Texas.”
• Crawfish, Oysters, Crab and More -- “Chef Maggie Perkins, a food writer and former farmer, frequently uses Texas seafood in demos at farmers markets and in cooking classes.”
• Dershowitz On Statues: Liberals Are Doing What Stalin Did, “Erasing History” -- “But the idea of willy-nilly going through and doing what Stalin did: just erasing history and re-writing it to serve current purposes, does pose a danger...”
• Experts Disgraced Themselves By Prioritizing Woke Politics Over Public Health -- “The coronavirus will hopefully not be the worst pandemic, but it’s surely shaping up to be wokest pandemic.”
• Following In His Footsteps -- “John learned to cobble as a child by watching his father, Evelio “Bill” “Richard” Fernandez Jr. work.”
• Former co-worker of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin claims they ‘bumped heads’ in the past -- “George Floyd’s brother Philonise said...he believed it was personal, and he’s not the only one who sees it that way.”
• I’m a conservative Christian. I’ve got a problem with the flag. -- “So, when a church erects flagpoles outside its building and hoists the American flag and the Christian flag, that church immediately puts itself in an unwinnable situation. By law, the church cannot fly the Christian flag above the U.S. flag, and the U.S. flag must be at the center. Yet by scripture, the church cannot put country equal to or above Jesus Christ. By raising the U.S. flag over the Christian flag and making it the center of attention, the church near my house appears to put country over Christ.”
• Nancy Pelosi Silent on Own Father Who Oversaw Dedication of Confederate Statue -- “...her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the city in 1948....Pelosi’s brother, while serving as Baltimore’s mayor in the 1960s, specifically requested then-Gov. Spiro Agnew call in the National Guard to quell the unrest during the riots of 1968.”
• New CDC Considerations for Events and Gatherings -- “Organizers should continue to assess, based on current conditions, whether to postpone, cancel, or significantly reduce the number of attendees for gatherings.”
• Resisting the Spectacle and Restoring Life -- “To compel each other to watch Black death runs the risk of moving from bearing witness to entertaining spectacle.”
• Sharpening My Knowledge -- “On Route 66, about 75 miles east of Amarillo, I discovered the perfect place to stop and stretch my legs while simultaneously pondering the weird and wonderful: the Devil’s Rope Museum in McLean.”
• Social Justice: Not What You Think It Is -- “In this way, the common good becomes an excuse for total state control.”
• Surely Minneapolis, Of All Places, Must Have Cured Racism By Now -- “Progressives and Democrats are the people who never tire of accusing their political adversaries of racism, or maybe even of ‘white supremacism.’  Elect us, the message is, and we will do away with these evils for good.”
• Texas was Ranked as the State with the BEST Food in the Entire Nation -- “A Survey ranked Texas as the Number One State for Food out of the entire United States.”
• The Canaanites Were Image-Bearers -- “Christians have embraced leftist politics and humanist ethics under the auspices of ‘human dignity,’ which is supposedly grounded in mankind being created in God’s image and likeness.”
• The Hmong American community, power, privilege and a place in Asian America -- “The actions of Thao, who is Hmong American, have propelled the community into the contentious discussion involving the relationship between the Asian American and the black communities.”
• What was the deal with Arkansans’ fondness for Queen Wilhelmina? -- “If, like me, you grew up here imagining that your state parks include one named after her because primordial or preliminary Arkansas was settled by the Dutch, or because once upon a time she came here or she wanted to come but couldn't ... nope.”