2018 archive
The Return of Snake Oil 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Lisa Fullam exposes the duplicity behind Donald Trump’s advocacy for “the right to try” unproven “medical” treatments.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling the basketball game.
Elder High School students chanted the name of a Chinese restaurant chain at an Asian-American player, along with homophobic slurs, and singled out a black player for racist abuse, reported WLWT-TV.
The chants reached a peak in the third quarter, when Friday’s game between Elder and St. Xavier High School was finally called off.
More Trumpling at the link.
Arms and the Manchild 0
Southern Beale cuts to the bone on Donald Trump’s desire to play with tanks to have a USSR-style military parade. A snippet:
This parade isn’t about honoring the military, it’s about honoring Trump. Get real.
Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes practice.
Salem police say they don’t know if Tuesday’s shooting was an accident or intentional. The owner of the shooting range told two Portland television stations it was an accident.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
When fellowship is needed, join us . . . .
When: Thursday, February 8, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
“Judged, Not by the Color of Their Skin . . . .” 0
Maria Panaritis tells a tale of profiling. A snippet (emphasis added):
Guests of a neighbor had seen a black man pull into his own house in an affluent enclave and assumed he was a burglar.
Follow the link for details.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is child’s horse play.
The 18-year-old and a 14-year-old male sibling “may have been horse playing with the gun when it went off,” said Green, according to witness accounts and a preliminary investigation by township police.
Had the 18-year-old had been packing, no doubt she could have returned fire, the causalities would have canceled each other out, and no one would have been injured.
Or something.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Trumpling Twitter 0
David Doel gives another example of Donald Trump’s getting it precisely wrong.
Discarding People 0
Thom discusses how Republicans are rebranding health care as welfare.
In the Capital, There Was Gerry Mander (and His Entire Staff) 0
A bit or good news on the Republican gut-out-the-vote front: