April, 2024 archive
Pre-Trial Publicity 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s “Truth” Social rant before his trial commenced (warning: short commercial at the end.)
A Pillow of the Community 0
Sam and the crew are somewhat taken aback to find that RNC co-chair Lara Trump is shilling for My Pillow.
Just when you think that our society of stupid can’t get any stupider, it up and proves you to be, as my old boss* used to say, in error.
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*He was my first boss at a full-time job and he was very easy to work for because he was a skillful boss.
I once asked him how he got to be such a good boss. He paused for a minute, then said, “I think about what my first boss would have done. Then I do the opposite.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner”–oh, heck, you know the rest.
One more time, “negligent” and “accidental” are not synonyms.
And, in more news of the polite . . . .
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Michael in Norfolk finds a straw at which to grasp.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
At the Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin notes that yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” has put the moron in oxymoron.
American Regress and the Rule of Lawless 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, seasoned diplomat and professor of international affairs at the Pennsylvania State University Dennis Jett looks at Republican plans to gut the Civil Service and return to the “spoils system” of the Nineteenth Century. He determines it to be a disastrous idea. Here’s a bit:
Afterthought:
I can’t but suspect the motive for this is quite simple: to exempt the (next Republican) President from the rule of law.
This New Gilded Age, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
Sam and the crew talk with Terri Gerstein, director of the Wagner Labor Initiative at New York University, about efforts to bring back industrial child labor.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
My old NPR station points out that today’s Republican Party is recycling an old lie. A snippet (emphasis added):
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The myth that immigrants are exerting undue influence on American elections has been floating around U.S. politics for more than 100 years.
Individual states began banning noncitizens from voting more than a century ago, and Congress passed a law in 1996 that explicitly banned the practice in all federal elections.
Numerous studies have also confirmed that it almost never happens, but as more conservative voters say immigration is a key issue for them, it’s become clearer that election misinformation in 2024 will center on the topic as well.
Establishmentarians 0
Disestablishmentarian readers of The Denver Post weigh in on the threat posed by establitarianism.
(I have so wanted to use “disestablishmentarian” in a post.)
Merchants of Death 0
Francis Wilkinson considers a contradiction.
Follow the link for considerable consideration.
