A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:
Follow the link for the article itself.
Strict Destructionists 0
At my local rag, Doug Mercado argues that the current federal maladministration seems to have overlooked the bit in the preamble to the U. S. Constitution that states that one of the purposes of the union is to “promote the general welfare.”
Methinks he may be onto something.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.
Now they have taken it over.
All the News that Fits 0
Driftglass looks back at the history of hate radio and reminds us that dis coarse discourse did not get so coarse by accident.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.”
Another exposed portable phallus.
Another child in another hospital.
Another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0
Susan Estrich debunks Trump’s bunk about the California vote count.
All the News that Fits 0
Farron explains why Walter Cronkite would be ashaned of what his network has become. (Warning: Mild language.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.
This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).
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*Mark Twain.
Phoning It in . . . 0
. . . to a bad actor.
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper follows the money.
A Postal Puzzle 0
Is Alabame Senator Tommy Tuberville actually a Florida man? Inquiring minds want to know.
Read the article by Kyle Whitmire that Farron references.