September, 2016 archive
What’s in a Word? 0
Using the actions of Maine’s Governor LePage as a starting point, Christine Emba marvels that some persons seem more concerned about being called “racists” than about being racist. A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children with politeness.
The boy has been identified as 2-year-old Benjamin Austin Smith.
“Moderation in All Things” 0
Dick Polman dissects Donald Trump’s self-serving (and that surprises one how?) contention that the Presidential debates should not have moderators. It defies excerpt or summary; just read it.
Trumping History 0
Shorter Mike Pence: Lies come with a sell-by date, don’t they? This one’s old news.
I find this you will pardon the expression deplorable.
Meet Donnie and the Deplorables 0
Excerpt:
Once you see the burning cross, and at that moment, you do not choose to leave, you are at a cross-burning.
Via Delaware Liberal.
Green Heron 0
A rare bird indeed (from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck).
If One Standard Is Good, Then Two Must Be Better 0
Daniel W. Drezner offers a theory as to why Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to be held to two different standards of conduct by our corporate media. I’ll try my hand at a short version:
Well, everyone already knows Trump is corrupt! That’s old news–no need to report on that.
It’s her we have to look at.
Follow the link and decide for yourself whether my summary is accurate.
Light Bloggery 0
Taking a breather.
The Rendering 0
It would seem that everything gets rendered unto Caesar.
These persons worship no Jesus that I know.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Reprise 0
Peter St. Onge finds himself flabbergasted at the capability of North Carolina Republican election board members to believe stuff that ain’t.
Just read it.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Richard Eskow speaks with Ian Millhiser about how the legislative record in North Carolina documented North Carolina’s racist gut-out-the-vote motives and actions and how the Tarheel GOP is doubling-down on the deception.
“Don’t Go There” 0
Dale Hartley cites several cities where sight-seers are sometimes seized with syndromes.