2018 archive
The Payoff 0
These folks who style themselves as “Evangelical Christians” worship no Jesus that I know.
A Lethal Combination 0
Robert Reich considers what led to the Trumpling and concludes that there were two main ingredients in a toxic stew. Neither alone is a sufficient explanation, but which together boiled reacted like baking soda and vinegar. A snippet:
One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working class fell for Trump’s economic populism.
A competing explanation — which got a boost this month from a study published by the National Academy of Sciences — dismisses economic hardship and blames it on whites’ fear of losing status to blacks and immigrants. They were attracted to Trump’s form of identity politics: bigotry.
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Yet the truth isn’t found in one explanation or the other. It’s in the interplay between the two.
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Woodpecker 0
Another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
Facebook Frolics Meets Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
USA Today staffers read every phony Russian Facebook ad. What they found should not surprise. Here’s their first paragraph:
Follow the link for why they said that.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumpling sportsmanship.
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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.
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