June, 2018 archive
Wipe Out! 0
Jay Bookman comments. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the complete article.
(Syntax error fixed. Darn computers. Expect you to splet stuf rite.)
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing Unwasted 1
Shaun Mullen reviews Michael Polln’s book, How To Change Your Mind, about what a long strange trip it was.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children politely.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
Trumpling Reagan’s “Shining City on a Hill” 0
Amy Fried explains how that city no longer shines nor sits on a hill, but has plunged into the valley of darkness.
Borderline Disorder 0
Seth talks to Chris Hayes about conditions at the border and how they differ from what Donald Trump says they are. He also offers his thoughts about what motivates the anti-immigration crowd.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Responsible gun owners go shopping too, you know.
Kids found the gun and one of them pulled the trigger, firing a single shot. No injuries were reported.
Guns and stupid, a marriage made in–well, somewhere.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Elie Wystal comments on Donald Trump’s desire to abandon “due process” at the border (and, likely, everywhere else).
Just read it.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Thom and Frank Schaeffer discuss Jeff Sessions’s laughable attempt to invoke Godwin’s Law to end criticism of Donald Trump’s venality and brutality.
QOTD 0
Robert van Gulik:
He reflected–a little sadly–that there was no substitute for youth.
van Gulik, Robert, Necklace and Calabash (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 59
A Civil Tongue 0
Joe Patrice reacts to the conservatives who clutch their pearls and fall upon their fainting coaches because a restaurateur politely ask Sara Huckabee Sanders to find somewhere else to eat. A nugget:
