A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini comments on Kari Lake’s fawning unwavering support of Donald Trump. A snippet:
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Suffer the children. It’s a Republican family value.
So is mean for the sake of mean.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another I’m-sure-if-you-asked-him-he-would-say-that-he-knows-how-to-handle-his-portable-phallus “responsible gun owner” takes politeness for a ride.
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.
Inquiring Minds Want To Know 0
Is it at all possible that, after a career of both-sidesing the heck out of every issue under the sun, David Brooks has come to his senses?
Snow in Texas 0
No, not that kind of snow. The other kind.
Vaccine Nation 0
Ron Fournier is the father of a fully functional son who is on the autism spectrum and a member of the board of the Autism Alliance of Michigan. At the Detroit Free Press, he–er–expresses some skepticism as to RFK Jr.’s intent to conduct “studies” to blame autism on vaccines. Here’s tiny bit of his article; the whole piece is worth a read:
What I’m not OK with: President Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spending taxpayers’ money on phony studies with rigged outcomes to support their conspiracy theories ? or with RFK’s plans to reportedly pursue those studies by collecting Americans’ private health data.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes’* 0
From the Washington Monthly:
Instead, the economy slows. Budgets collapse. Investors are spooked. Core services erode. Even allies defect. By the end, voters—many of whom once cheered the project—recoil . . . .
No, Nate Weisberg is not talking about Donald Trump in that passage. Rather, he’s hearing a rhyme from a decade ago. Follow the link to find out who he refers to.
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*Mark Twain.
Did Trickle-On Economics Give Us Trump? 0
Robert Reich looks at what led to Trump.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Field argues that we must remain vigilant as the Trump maladministrationn seeks to (further) undermine the rule of law.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The dialog: The daughter of a London bus driver?
The closed caption: The daughter of Alinda Masdrayva?
The stupid: Mind-boggling.
Vaccine Nation on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Thomas R. Verny points out that “(s)ome people spread disinformation meant to erode the public’s confidence in medicine” and offers suggestions to avoid being taken in. Here’s one of them; follow the link for the rest.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
“Woke”? Not if today’s Republican Party gets its way.
Via Boston.com, Republicans are now opposing efforts to remove bigotry and racism from AI.