July, 2025 archive
A Tune for the Times 0
Afterthought:
My escape from Trump is to listen to Best of Car Talk episodes that you can download from NPR–at least, for now. They are nutty, but they help me forget that my country has gone nuts.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Show politeness to your fellow party-goers.
In Comparison 0
At the Detroit Free-Press, John Lindstrom argues that Donald Trump has accomplished something Lindstrom didn’t think possible.
Trump has made Richard Nixon look good.
Follow the link for Lindstron’s reasoning.
“Get Me Rewrite!” 0
John Young envisions the Supreme Supremacist Court’s RSV (Revised Supremacist Version) of the United States Constitution. Here’s a snippet:
They continued: “Those of inherent privilege are endowed by their creator with special status; the rest can soak.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Per the link, they haven’t yet identified the aspiring Klansman.
Republican Thought Police 0
Why educate when you can indoctrinate?
The Blame Gamers 0
Farron points the many ways in which the self-proclaimed “party of personal responsibility” isn’t.
The Litterbug 0
He deals in deals out space junk.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rita Watson explores why calling something “fake news” when in fact it is real factual news pollutes dis coarse discourse and, conversely, why persons fall for “news” that is actually fake. She points out that
(a)s a political strategy, replying ‘fake news’ to questions undermines the truth.
Follow the link for her suggestions as to how distinguish reality from propaganda.
The Outers of the Outed 0
At El Reg, Brandon Vigliarolo, using the recent incident at a Coldplay concert as a springboard, argues that we are living a a surveillance state of our own creation. A snippet:
One more time, “social” media isn’t.