November, 2025 archive
Trumplednomics 0
University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers runs the numbers. Ring of Fire’s Jerrod Zisser reports.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Stealing intellectual property? A German court says, “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!“
A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0
. . . Meet the privatization scam.
Virtual Public Nutcases 0
The EFF reports that there’s a move in the Wisconsin state legislature to ban VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), using the excuse that this will somehow protect children.
This is the sort of thing that happens when persons with axes to grind start messing with something that they have no clue about. (Think Trump tariffs, for example.) Here’s a tiny bit from the article:
Follow the link detailed information about why this a bad, very bad, extremely stupid idea.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Republican Family Values, Reprise 0
Keith Raffel comments on the mean for the sake of mean. A snippet:
I’m not certain why the senator would be shocked. When it comes to Trump’s political tactics, heartlessness is not a bug — it’s a feature.
Follow the link for context.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
David debunks de bunk and decodes de code.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once more, politeness goes to the dogs the dogs go to politeness.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation . . . .” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Rafa Euba takes a look at who is likely to believe in conspiracy theories, even when the conspiracy theories are more far-fetched than reality.
I think he may be onto something. Follow the link and see what you think.
Republican Thought Police 0
If you don’t like history, well, just apply a little white out.
Outing the Quackery 0
Farron discusses a study that–er–casts doubt on RFK Jr.’s claim that Tylenol is somehow magically linked to autism.
The Conflicted 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Anita Chabria argues that MAGA Republicans are facing a quandary.
They are having trouble agreeing about who to hate.
Here’s a brief excerpt (emphasis added); follow the link for context.
It comes amid the first real rebellion about rampant and increasingly open antisemitism within the MAGAverse, creating a massive rift between traditional conservatives and a younger, rabidly anti-Jewish contingent called groypers whose leader, Nick Fuentes, recently posted that he is “team Hitler.”
Turns out, when you cultivate a political movement based on hate, at some point the hate is uncontrollable. In fact, that hate needs to be fed to maintain power — even if it means feasting on its own.