July, 2024 archive
Republican Unreality Theatre 0
Seth discusses the Trumpification of the GOP.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the gun was between the mattress and the box spring, accessible at eye level to the child. The father reportedly kept the firearm for safety reasons but did not secure it properly.
Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Our Surveillance Society 0
In related news, the EFF wants you to know that your car may be watching you.
QOTD 0
John HOpe Franklin:
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
Aside:
Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.
Stray Thought 0
“Yes, but will it hold up in court?” is no longer a valid rhetorical question.
We have seen that, with the application of enough juice for a long enough time to the correct vulnerable points, anything, regardless of legality or morality, will hold up in court.
The Party’s Over . . . 0
Thom argues that the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Dirksen, and, yes, even Reagan, is no more. It’s been replaced by a xenophobic racist establishmentarian personality cult.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymmoronic “responsible gun owner.”
Yet another gun that (is claimed to have) fired itself.
The bullet went through the wall and struck the girl, authorities said.
Emergency personnel airlifted the teen to an area hospital.
We are a society of stupid.
Immunity Impunity
0
James D. Zirin takes a close look at the Supreme Supremacist Court’s free pass for Donald Trump.
No summary or excerpt will do it justice. Just go read it.
Hoist on Their Own Petard 0
Sam and the crew delight in Mike Johnson’s fleeing the stage and at Senator Ron Johnson’s giving the wrong speech when their teleprompters misbehaved, this after years of Republicans ridiculing Democrats for using–wait for it–teleprompters.
News You Can Lose 0
There’s an old saying that “no news is good news.”
At Psychology Today Blogs, Arthur Dobrin argues that too much news is bad news. A snippit:
Follow the link for his suggestions as to how to keep up to date without being driven up a wall.
