A Tune for the Times 0
Warninng: Short promo from minute one to minute two.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Vaccine Nation, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
Pediatrician Susan Kressly, who happens to be president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, writes that anti-vax lies about vaccines have pediatricians worried. An excerpt (emphasis added):
The stupid. It burns.
Name Gamers 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth notes that Republicans’ fascination with renaming things has reached the Florida legislature, so he offers several suggestions. Here’s just one of them; follow the link for the others.
We could rename the thoroughfare outside Trump’s cheesy resort the Convicted Felon Freeway.
Fingers in Their Ears 0
Farron observes that some elected Republican officials are making excuses so as not to have to listen to their constituents if those constituents have the temerity to take exception to the actions of Dear Leader.
DOGE Bull 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice provides (yet) more evidence that Elon Musk’s DOGE really doesn’t have a clue about how government works or what it (DOGE) is doing.
Real Big Men 0
Robert Reich takes a long look at what he describes as “the centrality of male dominance and misogyny to Trump’s world” and at how it frames and explains much of the behavior of Trump and the Trumpettes.
I commend his article to your attention.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Mild language.)
This New Gilded Age 0
Apparently, I am not alone in realizing that the 1890s are back.
