September, 2018 archive
A Trumpled Party 0
Dana Milbank looks at Republicans’ early campaign tactics for this fall’s election and concludes that they intend to use ad hominem character assassination, lies, innuendo, falsified photos, and the like as their first choice of tactics (follow the link for his list of numerous examples).
He suggests that the Trumpling of the Republican Party is complete. A snippet (emphasis added):
Gutless Wonders (Updated) 0
Dick Polman reminds us that Ben Sasse (like many other Republicans who claim to be skeptical of Donald Trump) are as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, signifying nothing.
Addendum:
Werner Herzog’s Bear has more.
Stray Thought 0
An “affectionate cat” is a cat that willingly accepts affection.
Recommended Reading 0
Robert van Gulik’s last book of the Judge Dee series, written shortly before his untimely death, Murder in Canton.
I’ve just started it and I’m already enraptured.
Profiles in Discourage 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that the recent New York Times column about Donald Trump by “Anonymous” does not mean what its author thinks it means. He takes issue with the implication that Anonymous and his fellow insurgents are somehow bravely standing between Donald Trump and catastrophe. A snippet (emphasis added):
