“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme.
It must be free verse, as somehow “Donald Trump” manages to rhyme with “Neville Chamberlain.”
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*Mark Twain.
DOGE Ball, Reprise 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrice is less than impressed with Elon Musk’s coup takeover of the government. A snippet:
Musk and his band of merry tweebs live in a video game world and it shows.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable (in this case, pseudo-)phallus to a fellow motorist.
We are clearly a nation of Real Big Men with real tiny brains.
DOGE Ball 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier looks at how Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which, incidentally, is not a government department in any legitimate sense of the term) has compromised federal computer systems and concludes that it can legitimately be considered a cyberattack on “the sinews of government.”
Here is a little bit from his article:
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
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.
Definitively Speaking 0
Republicans have been accusing NPR and PBS of spreading “far left” news.
Just to be clear, in Republicans’ eyes–er–ears, “far left” news, regardless of the source, is any news that Republicans don’t want (you) to know about.