May, 2018 archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling sportsmanship.
(snip)
The incident allegedly occurred May 1 when the Sterling and Haddon Heights girls’ track teams competed at Haddonfield in a tri-meet. A member of the Haddonfield boys’ lacrosse team allegedly told a ninth-grade competitor to “get off the track” and called the girl the N-word, according to the complaint.
I’m certain that the complaint will be found valid, because, honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Early practice:
Mike Brooks, outdoor education manager at the range, said a man accidentally shot himself in his upper right thigh with a 9mm handgun.
Clearly, he needs some practice . . . .
Immunity Impunity
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Cops stopped a person of color for a (reputed) traffic offense and behaved as expected.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is going to the dogs.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Chief Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee declares that asking potential judicial nominees about Brown v. Board of Education is “playing politics.”
Swamp Things 0
Jay Bookman marvels at the corporations who quite willingly helped fund Michael Cohen for no discernible reason. A snippet:
That’s odd. Beyond financing the occasional abortion for girlfriends of GOP bigwigs, Cohen has no discernible expertise on “U.S. health-care policy matters.” Nor has he ever registered as a lobbyist. For its part, Novartis is so comfortable and proud of its just-uncovered association with Cohen and his company, Essential Consultants, that it quickly moved to distance current management from the deal.
Follow the link for more.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
A tiger’s eyes can’t make light, . . . they only reflect it.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Women (New York: Bantam, 1949) p. 50
Break Time 0
Off to Drink Liberally.
Rogue State, One More Time 0
Mike discusses efforts by the Trumplers’ to smear Obama officials as part of the effort to justify Trump’s perfidy on the Iran agreement.
Warning: Language, and lots of it.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The racism. The presumption of guilt. The privilege of whiteness.
Words fail me.
(Well, actually, they don’t fail me. I just know when to stop.)
Via Raw Story.
