August, 2025 archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seton Hall law professor Lori A. Nessel is distressed and dismayed by the Trump maladministration’s policies of mean for the saek of to immigrants. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More evidence that we are a broken society.
That’s when Adam Turck, 35, passed by while walking his dog and attempted to intervene in the dispute. The 19-year-old then shot Turck before he turned the gun on himself.
QOTD 0
Jim Bacchus as Thurston Howell III and Bob Denver as Gilligan:
Howell: Young man, are you accusing a man of cheating. I’ll have you know that I’m far too wealthy.
Gilligan: To cheat?
Howell: No, to be accused.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)
If the Truth Hurts . . . . 0
. . . then make it go away.
Robert Reich dissects the Trump maladministration’s strategy to turn the BLS into just plain BS.
This New Gilded Age 0
In addition to all the other stupid, petty, and destructive things this is, how is this not also theft of labor?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)
Tariff Tantrums 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann lists a litany of Trumpian tariff threats intended to bully other countries into doing Trump’s bidding.
It’s really worth a look. It’s a titanic tornado of toddler tariff tantrums.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
One of the brain’s most efficient departments is the one that turn possibilities into probabilities, and probabilities into facts.
Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1962) p, 123
Recommended Viewing 0
Gilligan’s Island, Season Three, Episode Four, “The Producer.”
The whole Gilligan’s Island series is a lot of fun, silly for the sake of silly, but that episode is an absolute hoot. Plus, it includes one of my favorite pieces of music, the “Habanera” from Bizet’s Carmen, one of my favorite operas, worked into a pastiche of Hamlet.
I watched it on Tubi, but you can likely find it on other streaming services.
History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trish Fontana, whose family survived Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, hears a rhyme with what’s happening in the U. S. today. She notes that
. . . fascism has become a polarizing force in our own nation today.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
Actions . . . 0
. . . have consequences.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump sounds a warning.
Stray Thought 0
If Donald Trump is going to going to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Exam, perhaps he should take it himself to show the kids how it’s done. Or at least let the kids know how he did on it when he was in school.
And, yes, I remember taking it. It wasn’t such a big deal, but that was back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, and kids stilled played non-video games.