August, 2025 archive
Numbers Gamer 0
Seth looks at Donald Trump’s decision to have the National Guard occupy Washington D. C. He leads into the topic by discussing Trump’s problem with numbers.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Kansas City Star, Joel Mathis writes of many of the innocent, law-abiding persons who have been swept up in Donald Trump’s crusade against immigrants. He notes that, despite the Trump maladministration’s pledges that criminals and gang members would be its targets, that has not been the actuality.
In the course of his article, he makes this observation, which methinks sums up what’s going on:
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that the ABA is fighting back.
Wonder if Trump will sic that National Guard on them?
American Stasi 0
No, that’s not hyperbole. From Truthout:
Much more at the link.
Birds of a Feather, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
Warning: Short commercial at about the 2 1/2 minute mark.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, one of those “responsible gun owners” exposes a portable phallus to children, and politeness becomes child’s play.
We are a society of stupid.
Republican Family Values 0
When you read these stories of persons renditioned by the Trump maladministration without cause or due process, but simply because IDE didn’t like their looks, you will find it difficult to deny that mean for the sake of mean is a–if not the–Republican family value.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild Language.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu has a long and thoughtful article about Iowa’s Republican Governor’s attempts to stamp out talk about DEI in the state’s educational institutions. (In case you wondered, the goal of the anti-DEI movement is to pretend that discrimination and bigotry and segregation and slavery never happened and left no legacy.)
She notes that the Iowa governor referred to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order, then observes (emphasis added)
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Metamorphosis 0
David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
A Diet of Worms 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes imagines what Louis Pasteur would have to say were he to come back and find that “raw milk” is now a fad.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Self-politeness is the politest kind.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.